Excerpt from List of the Minerals of New Zealand Fob many years there has been an urgent need for the compilation of a complete list of mineral occurrences in New Zealand. Such a list is required by the geologist, the prospector, the miner, and all interested in the development of the mineral resources of this country. Its preparation has been contemplated for some years, and in consequence a considerable amount of material has been collected by members of the Geological Survey Staff. It was not intended to publish this matter until a complete handbook to the minerals of this country could be written, but a request for a list of New Zealand minerals to accompany the "Catalogue and Description of Exhibits of the Mines Department" prepared for the Auckland Exhibition has led to the compilation of the present list. Owing to the available time being extremely short, it has not been possible to include in the list all the data that could be obtained. Mainly on this account much interesting information contained in the accessible literature, which would be of value to prospectors and others, has been omitted. For a similar reason, many references to localities where useful minerals occur, but as a rule in small quantity only, are not here given. Perhaps the most important of such omissions are data relating to the clays, limestones, and mineral waters of this country, as well as o ores of economic importance. Much of this material, it is true, does not strictly belong to the domain of mineralogy, but is certainly not out of place in a publication intended for the benefit of the general public. In referring to authors, the present writers, owing to want of time, have in many cases given only the first reference found, and not the original source, which is oftentimes difficult, or even impossible, to trace. A few very doubtful occurrences have been purposely omitted, but others which are probable rather than certain are included, and on the whole the list is believed to be tolerably complete as regards positively identified mineral species. For the sake of rendering the list as useful as its limits permit, the writers have followed the plan usually adopted in similar publications - namely, of including various substances of economic value, which in strictness are not minerals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.