IMPORTANT FIND.
RuMoaiaAbttniaaoo. By Telegraph,- Press Association, ' Dunbdin, Friday. Mr Ulricli reports that a boulder found in a gold drift at Black Creek lioar Kimu (Westland) is not only of great imprest nriueralogically, but the discovery may provo of commer- ■ oial value. The red mineral is a true Oriental ruby, an abOndanco of which jgfagUifastono exists in green find ia really astonNo record of a similar V occurrence from any part of the world producing rubies can be found. The presence of small crystals g'vea the promise of large and really valuable ores beinp found if looknd for. The eamploa of tin ores found in Humphrey's Gully 'jear the closest resemblance found at Mount Bishop mine, ivHPsmani.i. We think there is a groat . probability of the prospecting leading to the discovery'of rich parent deposits of tho ore. .
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4084, 8 April 1892, Page 3
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137IMPORTANT FIND. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4084, 8 April 1892, Page 3
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