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24. MANGANESE. Manganese minerals arc found in almost part of New Zealand. The more notable occurrences are Tikiora, near the Ray of Islands; Waihoko Island, in the Ilauraki Gulf; Paraparauniu, about thirty miles north of Wellington; and Taicri Beach, Otago. For some time past inanganese-nre has been quoted on the London market at 2s. lOid. per unit, or £iS per ton of 60-per-cent. ore. Presumably the price is fixed by the Imperial Government. In June' the San Francisco quotation for 45-per-ecnt. ore was Is. (id. to Is. 7d. per unit, but in Pittsburg and Chicago similar ore was quoted at 3s. 9d. per unit (freight paid), and ore containing over 49 per cent, of manganese was quoted at 4s. 2d. ($1*00), with a penalty for silica in excess of 8 per cent, or phosphorus in excess ol' o*2 per cent. It is evident that at these prices, unusually high though they are, the shipment of manganese-ore from New Zealand to the Northern Hemisphere is hardly commercially possible until ocean freights and insurance are considerably reduced.

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