FIND OF GREENSTONE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 217, 31 August 1911, Page 2

FIND OF GREENSTONE.

IMMENSE DEPOSITS ON THE WEST COAST. Enquiries made in C.reymouth confirm the Wellington telegram regarding the disi-u.very of a huge reef of greens I one at tUp Arahura. The deposit, has hcen inspected bv Mr. F. P. Daniil. F.G.S., >Lr,M.U.. and Mr. John Hayes, M.l.M.formerly Chief Inspecting- Engineer of the Mines Dipartmcnt, who confirm the discovery. The greenstone is of volcanic origin, and the original fissure in which the deposit occurs has been discovered. One tunnel from the crater on the syndicate’s property on the actual shows 475,000 tons of greenstone. This has been examined by Mr. G. S. Hilton, the well-known jeweller and the principal expert valuator of greenstone in New Zealand, who, after five days inspection, values the deposit at between two shillings and six shillings per lb on the field. So far as modern geological science knows, tliis is the firs! and only discovery of jade in situ m the known world since the working out of the jade quarries in Turkestan, over 201)0 years ago. The deposit now found ranges from what may be called low grade jade to chemically pure nephrite of the very highest commercial value. The syrtdicate’s area is 21 miles long by half a mile in width, so as to include all possibility of other deposits from the same fissure.