| Show DISCOVERY OF CINNABAR material Sl millir tr to that at mercur round found lit it an instep anti inti I 1 discovery of cinnabar and mercurial beai ing alluvial such its hs Is found at Aler mercur cur has hag been made near johannesburg according to the Austral australian lait mining standard from the assays essays ot or dr loevy leery the lie rock a alfaya atys mo per mit cent tit r mercury 2330 dervent per cent vent knoper per cent and the th concentrates per cent many efforts 1 li I ive been made to 1 discover mercury in this coun fly li y but bill this Is said mill to be tho the first time lime that a tent mine malc has been c opi ent ried nel out and it will doubtless bu ot of gloat interest to all dilate na naters tile property consists ot or too tl cl tims about english acres acre three miles along the fornitt lon it is d en eat go ON eini nent aund in the de 11 kani aap gold fields near the junction ot or lite I 1 maid anti anil and 1 about twenty little south of the Pi Pt etorla Delwo a day bay to which there Is good access the formation in holcli the cra cinnabar occurs Is sedimentary con ot or ch loralle and talco chlor atle ell ests maidstone raid and quartz on tho the outcrop the formation has been tilted filled to albort a vertical position but in 11 depth they till dip clip to the south the strike ot or the formation fol mation is a east cast to dir dip ping south tho the cinnabar occurs particularly ticul arly on oil the contact of the talco be 1 ests and sandstone mixed with quail in veina and and impregnations preg prena nations tlona the outcrop now worked extends over yards and with visible cinnabar several opened into the outcrop are ten to fifteen feet in depth a tunnel and cut for or formation orro atlon st at thirty five feet act depth and fact ot of driving into fit alir oi matlon irom from ell these a se se sederal aeral workings about tons or 0 ore have been extracted of 0 which the samples several hundred in ili 1 t con talal cinnabar with 10 per cent 0 oc mercury but many of the 1110 samples ples are much licher lit in cutting the alluvial for opening the tunnel I 1 it lias has been discovered that such it Is thoroughly impregnated with ineta metallic I 1 lie mer culy and a few open inra ot of this still oll ire are available many very pretty aretty crystals crystal of cinnabar were found tho the peculiar nature ot of the rock admits ot of a very easy and economical treatment tor for the i ot of the cinnabar into mercury |
