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Laboratory in 1884 or 1885, was found to contain 0-32 per cent, of 
graphite. Lab. No. 20, 1886, p. 42, No. 3940. 
17. Upper Takaka District. —A sample of graphitic rock from the Upper 
Takaka Valley was forwarded in 1916 to the Mines Department by Mr. F. 
Chaffey (or by Chaffey and Porter, prospectors). Lab. No. 50, 1917, p. 38, 
No. G 92 (wrongly recorded as “ Takatea River, Pokororo ”). In a manu¬ 
script note Dr. Maclaurin states that the sample is a magnesian rock 
partly coated with graphite. There is, however, not sufficient graphite in 
the stone to make it of any commercial value. 
18. Gouland Downs. —Park states that nests of very poor graphite occur 
in black slates at Gouland Downs [Rep. Geol. Explor., No. 20, 1890, p. 236). 
19. Golden Ridge , Nelson. —The quartz in the auriferous veins of the 
Golden Ridge district, south-west of Collingwood, is “ usually coated or 
mixed with graphite ” (Bull. No. 3, 1917, p. 91). The auriferous lodes of 
this district are contained in or adjoin a band of coal-black carbonaceous 
argillite which nowhere exceeds 20 ft. in width. This contains nests of 
very poor graphite (Park, report already cited, p. 236). 
20. Motupipi, Nelson. —A specimen of graphite in the Canterbury 
Museum is labelled “ Motupipi.” 
21. Pariwhakaoho Stream , Parapara District.— Cox in a report states 
that pieces of graphite, generally of an impure character, may be picked 
up in most of the creeks south of Parapara. In the ranges at the head 
of the Puruwhakaho (Pariwhakaho) he observed “bituminous schists ” in 
situ containing specimens of a very fair class of plumbago. He did not, 
however, see any well-defined veins of the pure mineral, and the locality 
was one that could not be got at without considerable expense (Rep. Geol. 
Explor., No. 14, 1882, pp. 46-47). 
22. Collingwood District. —The Ordovician rocks of the Collingwood 
district include graphitic schists and phvllites. The following analyses 
are attributed to Collingwood or its neighbourhood :— 
(1.) 
(2.) 
(3.) 
Carbon 
.. 66*86 
33*62 
37*38 
Water 
. . 0*85 
0*60 
4*20 
Ash 
.. 32*29 
65*78 
58*42 
100*00 
100*00 
100*00 
(1.) From Ruatanawha (Ruataniwha) Creek, Collingwood. Lab. No. 7, 
1872, p. 19, No. 1231. The list on p. 31 gives Hector as the collector, and 
Red Hill Reef as the locality. Skey states that the sample is the best 
“ that has yet been found in New Zealand, and is quite equal to Mexican 
graphite.” 
(2.) Forwarded by Mr. A. D. Bayfeild. Lab. No. 18, 1883, p. 51. 
(3.) Forwarded by French Consul for New Zealand. Lab. No. 31, 1898, 
pp. 13-14. 
23. Pakawau .—Owing to a graphite-mine having once been worked in 
the Pakawau district, a considerable amount of useful information, though 
in some respects curiously incomplete, has been obtained. Hochstetter 
states that in 1861 Curtis brothers opened extensive beds of plumbago 
near Pakawau (note on p. 477 of New Zealand, English translation, 1867). 
According to Cox, in Jurors' Report , N.Z. Exhibition, Dunedin, 1865, 
pp. 34, 417, Dr. Hector (Sir James Hector) states that graphite occurs 
at Pakawau, near Collingwood, in thick beds interstratified with meta¬ 
morphosed shale. Compressed samples were found to be quite equal in 
