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Title: 100,000 tons of steel rails required to be manufactured in New Zealand. Iron and coal: reports on the mineral deposits of the colony
Author: New Zealand Public Works Department
In: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 2
Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Library, Wellington
Part of: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence
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The sample sent for analysis by Mr. Lubecki. It is the black iron-sand of our coasts. It yielded 51.5 per cent, of metallic iron. It is, therefore, of the same quality as that found in large quantity in Stewart Island.