DISCOVERY OF GRAPHITE.
Mr P. E. Cheal, the well-known Auckland surveyor, writes to the "Mines Record" with regard to the discovery ot graphite in 'laranaki thirty years ago. Mr Cheal says when he was surveying on the Wa> mate Plains in 1879, at the time of the Te Whiti troubles, the men were building a chimney from some boulders in a stream flowing from Mount Egmont, when they came across an exceptionally heavy one, ab°ut the size of a man's head. On being broken it smashed into amellated, scaly or flaky pieces like soft black slate, was free from grit, and could be used at once for writing purposes. Sir James Hector , declared it to be graphite equal to Cumberland black-lead, and the best and worst samples gave 92 and 86.9 per cent, of pure carbon, which could be at once compressed or sawn into pencils.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9112, 11 June 1908, Page 5
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154DISCOVERY OF GRAPHITE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9112, 11 June 1908, Page 5
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