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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 65

Minerals

Minerals.

An exhaustive list of all the minerals hitherto found in New Zealand has been given by Mr. S. H. Cox §. Among the more interesting are platiridium, osmium-iridium, hessite, sapphire, spinel ruby, emerald, tridymitc, nephrite, and kyanite. No diamond has as yet been found, A curious jet-like mineral occurs in veins, or lining veins, in sandstones belonging to the Wanganúi System at One-tree Point, on the west side of Whangarei Harbour . Gold occurs in the Tákaka System and in the Maítai System, where page 220 penetrated by Plutonic rocks. It is also found, with several other metals, in the Tertiary andesites and propylites of the Thames, in the province of Auckland. Native mercury and cinnabar are being deposited at the present time by hot springs near the Bay of Islands *. Silver, copper, antimony, lead, and zinc have been found in several places, and haematite occurs in abundance at Parapara, near Nelson, in rocks belonging to the Tákaka Systom, as well as in many other localities.

§ Trans. N. Z. Inst. vols, xiv., xv., and xvi.

Trans. N. Z. Inst. iii. p. 250.

* Trans. N. Z. Institute, iii. p. 252.