PLATINUM IN THE SOUTH.
* [by telegraph.—press association.] 1 Invercargill, Wednesday. ;1 Dr. Inglis, who has lartre interests in New £ Zealand, and visited nearly all the gold workings in this district two years ago, and 0 took home specimens of platinum, writes s to a friend : —" You remember when I was 2 in Riverton the miners at the mouth of the Waiau were throwing away platinum. 1 Johnston, Matthews, and Co., have seen . specimens of the dust platinum from the [j colony, for which, although not very good, e they would give seven shillings per ounce ■ r for fifty or one hundred thousand ounces. y fine platinum is worth more. You will see 0 it is far more valuable than silver, and it: 0 would be a pity if the miners should not .. benefit by it. If they have platinum, they . should send some to be tested, and say how ~ much tliey could supply."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9218, 22 November 1888, Page 5
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