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Excerpt from Mines and Mineral Statistics of New South Wales, and Notes on the Geological Collection of the Department of Mines Under the head of waste products the Board says Very little attention has been given in Victoria to the extracting other constituents of pyrites, such as silver, copper, nickel, cobalt, and other metals, as also sulphur and arsenic, which from a purely commercial point of view, are of vast importance, and capable of adding materially to the wealth of the Colony. Most of the waste products, as they are termed, are such no longer, as their presence has increaed the value of and demand in Europe for pyrites of all kinds. Messrs. Johnson, Matthey, Co., assayers, Of London, writing on this subject, say, referring to some samples of auriferous pyrites submitted to them by the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Company We beg. To remark that mineral of this character would find a ready and advantageous market in England, provided that a regular quantity would be shipped.' Our experience certainly leads us to the conclusion that as the working of these ores become better understood in England (a result' immediately consequent upon a steady suppl a keen competition will arise and an extreme value he realized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.