BEDS OF COBALT.
DISCOVERY BY MR. EDISON. f PRESS A.-IrfOOIATION.} (Received June 14, 9.14 a.m.) NEW YORK, 13th June. Mr, Edison has discovered rich buds of cobalt in Carolina, Tennessee. Ho believes the discovery will revolutionise electrical traction. Cobalt is a metal, the ores of which are sparingly distributed. In the metallic state it is found in meteoric stones or aerolites to the extent of one per cent., but it generally occurs combined with arsenic as Speiss-cobalt, or as co-balt-glance, the arsenide and sulphide of metal. To obtain the metal itself from its ores is a matter of some difficulty, and although it is more tenacious than iron, yet it has not to any great extent co far been applied to practical use. It is of a gray colour with a reddish tinge, brittle, hard, and very magnetic. Muny of its compounds are valued on account of the brilliance and permanence of their colours.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 140, 14 June 1906, Page 5
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