QUICKSILVER MINE AT THE BAY OF ISLANDS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4697, 12 September 1872, Page 3

QUICKSILVER MINE AT THE BAY OF ISLANDS.

Messrs. E. Thomas, J. Oalder, T, Kennan, D. Graham, aud Sfcepheuson arrived at the Thames on Tuesday jn the 'Wild' Due's' from the Bay of Islands, where, they have been to inspect the locality of the alleged diacoTery ot a mine of quicksilver. They brought with them samples of the' staff taken from the veins, and there ia no doubt whatever but that nthey contain quicksilver of & very superior quality and ik good quantity. The mercury is found in a sort of sand vein. We are informed' that' Jhe discovery was made at a place about 26 miles north of the Bay of. Islands, near an old crater.. ' The explorer* Bank a shaft near the crater,' until they came to water, and ( they' then, oarritid' in ap.'open outtingjfrotu. 'ft Wall creek. tn this they found two sand veins,; each about9in. thick, enntaiuing—mercury in large quantities.'' They took' oat J aboiit* - l|cwfc. of the stuff j which has been shipped by the • Comerang ' for the Thames, where it is to b^ jsubnai^d £o the rnost' searching ' toijt«(. We »ihcerely h^ope, that/the idiscovery wul prov«s as important *» it appears to be. It 18 quite .evidenti the mercury .exists in the vo!n8 discovered, and possibly, in many more" which * afe undiscovered, but as to whether it, exists in sufficient quantity to make the opening of a mine ''a"" payable speculation' we cannot at present venture an opinion. — A4sertiser. ..» i '