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OTAGO MARBLE DEPOSITS.

WELL BACK IN MOUNTAINS. Inquiries made respecting reported deposits of marble at the Nokomai, mentioned by Dr. Gordon Macdonald at a meeting of the Dunedin War Memorial Committee last week, show that according to the information supplied by one of his men, the marble is well back in the mountains, and about 500 ft. > above the creek bed. There is a large body of stone, and his informant is certain that the quality will improve as the stone goes back into the hill. The outcrop is in ' a rather inaccessible place, and it would be a difficult undertaking to get it • down to the railway siding. One party that tried to work the stone was not successful in > ; making anything out of it. The marble appeared to him to rbe rather crumbly, and that being so it would be, important to know whether the stone was of any thickness or not. ' The grain of the marble looked all right, but. a piece of the stone was now being , polished,; and ;it was impossible to judge its appearance until that bad been done. ,

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18374, 14 April 1923, Page 9

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OTAGO MARBLE DEPOSITS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18374, 14 April 1923, Page 9

OTAGO MARBLE DEPOSITS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18374, 14 April 1923, Page 9

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