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Show MINE HAS PECULIAR VALUE Great Variety of Most Useful Products Taken From the Ground In Ver-dlte, Ver-dlte, South Africa. Situated In the beautiful Kaap valley, val-ley, In the Jamestown district of Bar-berton, Bar-berton, Transvaal, there Is a mine known by the name of Verdite. The name was given to It on account of the peculiar greenstone found In the mine, which Is unknown in any other part of the globe. Articles of Jewelry and ornaments are made of verdite, and It has been called the lucky greenstone green-stone of South Africa. This greenstone green-stone Is a silicate of magnesia, or talc, colored green by nature in the course of Its formation. Other silicates of magnesia may be mentioned here; peridote, serpentine, meerschaum and steatite. The mine, or, rather, hill, consists of three varieties of talc, green, white and black. But a peculiar pe-culiar fact is that In the black tale there Is present pure gold. Some of the finest specimens of gold-bearing rock have been found at this mine. Everyone knows that gold is found In quartz,- pyrites, or even in sea water, but scarcely ever has It been mentioned In books that gold exists In talc. When the verdite rock has gone through the ordinary process of crushing and the gold has been extracted, ex-tracted, the waste (or what Is called the slimes from a gold mine) Is used In the manufacture of soap, grease, paint, paper, toilet powders, gas Jets, electric Insulators, crayons and many other articles of everyday use. In fact, one might say that everything got from this mine can be used for some commercial purpose. |