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Departmental Deports. 
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The available information concerning each occurrence will be given 
in as brief a form as possible. 
1. Cuttle Cove . —The N.Z. Mines Record , vol. 11, 1907-8 (March, 1908), 
p. 358, states : “ Graphite has recently been found at Cuttle Cove, Pre¬ 
servation Inlet, by some prospectors. The deposit is considered highly 
promising, and is close to deep water.” 
2. Dusky Sound .—In disseminated scales in mica-schist or perhaps 
gneiss. Collected by W. Docherty. Cox, p. 365 ; and Lab. No. 21, 1886, 
p. 40. Skey separated the flakes or scales by elutriation, and obtained 
a product containing 91-02 per cent, of carbon. 
3. West Coast Sounds (probably Milford Sound, Caswell Sound, Thompson 
Sound, and perhaps Dusky Sound).—Disseminated in marble. Cox, p. 364 ; 
and Hector, J., in Jurors' Report, N.Z. Exhibition , Dunedin, 1865, p. 267. 
4. Jackson's Bay. —In 1876 a sample of graphitic sandstone from 
Jackson’s Bay containing 10-42 per cent, of carbon was forwarded to the 
Colonial Museum and Laboratory by the Hon. J. A. Bonar. Cox, p. 364 ; 
and Lab. No. 12, 1878, p. 52 (analysis not given). 
5. Few's (or Twelve-mile) Creek. —This is a stream entering Lake Waka- 
tipu on the north side of the middle reach (near Bob’s Cove). The occurrence 
of graphite here is mentioned by F. W. Hutton in The Geology of Otago , 
1875, p. 125. A specimen is in the Otago Museum. It, or a companion 
specimen, was described by A. Liversidge as having lamellar structure, 
and as being much contaminated with sesquioxide of iron (Trans., vol. 10, 
1878, p. 490). 
6. Garrick Range. —Hutton states (publication cited, p. 32) : “ Impure 
graphite occurs in considerable quantity in the Garrick Range, where, 
according to Mr. Buchan, it is sometimes 13 ft. thick.” The occurrence 
thus reported is probably the same as No. 7 (which see). 
7. Hawksburn. —Near the Clyde-Nevis Road, just after it crosses the 
Hawksburn, at a point about six miles from Clyde and six miles south- 
south-east of Bannockburn, is a graphitic deposit, which is thus described 
by Park (Bull. No. 5, 1908, pp. 68-69) :— 
“ Graphite. —This occurs intercalated in the schist a few feet above the 
hanging-wall of the Hawksburn lode in the Bannockburn district. It has 
been prospected by a shallow pit about a chain north of the middle 
outcrop of the lode. The sides of the pit have fallen in, and, except the 
debris at the pit-bank, nothing whatever can be seen of the graphite 
in situ. The rock is a micaceous slate that passes into phyllite. It strikes 
nearly north and south, and dips west at an angle of 60°. There is no 
appearance of graphite immediately to the north and south of the pit, 
from which we may conclude that the deposit is limited in linear extent. 
“ The graphite lying on the pit-bank is quartzose and of poor quality, 
but naturally the best would not be left behind by the prospectors. It is 
impossible to say what the prospects are from a surface examination, but 
the lack of linear extension does not give much hope of finding a large 
deposit.” 
8. Clyde District. —Skey (Lab. No. 5, 1870, p. 14) states : “ No. 666, 
graphite from the Clyde, Dunstan, on being analysed, gave the following 
results : Water, 3-5 per cent. ; earthy matters, 51-1 per cent. ; carbon, 
45-4 per cent. These results show that the sample compares very favour¬ 
ably with several of the blackleads used in commerce.” Skey’s sample 
may have come from the Hawksburn deposit, as may also the specimen 
in the Otago Museum described by Liversidge as “ rather loose and friable, 
impure ” (Trans., vol. 10, 1878, p. 490). 
