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Report, SfC./rom Captain G. B. Tremenheere, Executive Engineer, 

 Tenasserim Division, to the Officer in charge of the office of Super- 

 intending Engineer ; South Eastern Provinces ; with information 

 concerning the price of Tin ore of Mergui, in reference to Extract 

 from a Despatch from the Honorable Court of Directors, dated 

 25th October 1843, No. 20. Communicated by the Government of 

 India. 



Sir, — Agreeably to instructions conveyed in your letter, No. 3018, 

 of the 7th of February last, I have the honor to subjoin such informa- 

 tion as I have been able to obtain, concerning the probable cost of the 

 tin ore of Mergui. 



2. With the view of ascertaining its value in the home market, 

 I transmitted, about the period of my first report on the tin of this 

 province, a box of average samples of the ore, to a smelting establish- 

 ment in Cornwall, (Messrs. Bolitho & Co.) having extensive connection 

 with the tin mines of that country. In April 1843, Mr. Thomas 

 Bolitho informed me, that — " The samples of once- washed ore pro- 

 duces about 70 per cent, of tin, and the twice-washed yields nearly 

 75 per cent. The metal is very good, being almost free from alloy ; 

 some of the samples which have been sent to me from the Malayan 

 peninsula contain titanium. 



" The ore appears to separate from the matrix very easily. 



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