TRIAL SMELTINGS
TARANAKI IRONSAND ELECTRIC FURNACE ARRIVES P.A. NEW PLYMOUTH, Aug. 10. An electric smelting furnace specially imported by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for trial smeltings of Taranaki ironsand is reported to have arrived at Auckland. It will be transhipped for the rest of its voyage to Onekaka, where the trials are to be made as soon as the wharf has been extended and made ready for its reception. Meanwhile, the collection of ironsand for use in the trials is nearing completion, and most of the concentrate lies on the wharf at Patea awaiting shipment. Mr D. S. Nicholson, associate of the Otago School of Mines, and senior mineralogical engineer of the department, who is co-ordinating the whole process, expects that the total of 80 tons required will be reached before the end of this week. A further 20 tons of beach sand will accompany the consignment as a reserve for experimental purposes, and when this is ready the whole consignment will go to Onekaka as soon as shipping space is available.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26847, 11 August 1948, Page 6
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