KAOLIN CLAY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 23 May 1908, Page 8

KAOLIN CLAY

THE NEW JPI^MOIJTH FINDS. ■ I A. *-£-.. * - ' [PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] ■ NEW PLYMOUTH, May 23. About a year.^ago; the* discovery of kaolin clay dlapoei^ , -was. made on a Smart Toad iann.', , I^ppently a, foreign syndicate purchased 4%b „ . property i and spliced a sixong gmg of ,Tpfln l ( on to aacer^a|o by driyinig tlie exteiit of the, <^epo^it.,.,, The result of three weeks* work shows, the deposit to be much more extenfiiye .than - w^;anti<sipat«d.' $ix .drives hive, been *made, each -fli^ which 'is six-feet square, and one i$ at.a lowMeval in. 108 ' feet without, getting, out [fit. pane; white c)ay. Another i *ddv i e fifj»een ; . .fee^ higher,,;!* in 80 ' : i«ei>'; with tiie feoor, , walla, ; uos ( vqoi >still v of white clay. ' Here a aha Jt , has , been sunk 26 £eet, ! still in the same clay, but improving )in quality with.' each foot sunk. Another drive is in 71 feet, : wjtl^ still nothing : bu* kaolin/ In' the fourth' drive now,, ift..62 yellowy and blue amd white claya (the first met with) is now in the white, 1 kaolin. The fifth drive is in 50 feet ; of '" similar oountxy. . . In ; the sixth drive crude lignite k encoip^ered, and a shaft ia to be sunk to , asoer^a^n >. whether, coal. tmd«rliea it; " ' '