Great Sulphur Wealth
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In New Hebrides
Opportunity For
Australian Capital
THAT vast deposits of sulphur in in the New Hebrides Group are wiorthy of development by Australia is the opinion of Mr. B. Dunstan, Chief Government Geologist of Queensland.
Mr. Dunstan, who, with Mr. F. C.
Richards, a Brisbane metallurgist, has just returned from the New Hebrides, carried out preliminary geological and geophysical surveys of sulphur deposits on Yanua Lava, one of the large islands of the Banks Group, on behalf of Queensland mining interests.
A fact that impressed him was that although British capital has an equal right with the French to work the various deposits, by virtue of the Con dominium, so far no effort has been made to develop the fields. The re sult was that French and American companies were operating exclusively, On Vanua Lava there were thous ands of tons of pure sulphur. Hot