Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 September 1937Vol. VIII, No. 2

Sulphur Deposit In New Hebrides

p. 32 · Read in the full issue

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For over 50 years it has been known that sulphur deposits exist in certain areas in the New Hebrides. Forty years ago a French company attempted to work a deposit on Vanua Lava, in the Banks Group, but the project was abandoned. An Australian concern. Pacific Development Co., sent a party to the same, island a year or so ago to prospect the deposits; but nothing came of the plan to export the sulphur for commercial purposes. This photograph, taken by Dr. L. A. de la Rue, a French geologist, who made a mineral survey of the New Hebrides, shows a section of the sulphur deposit on Mount Surtamatit, Yanua Lava.

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