Item #118496 Rock Phosphates and Other Mineral Fertilisers. Their Origin, Value, and Sources of Supply. Charles CHEWINGS.

Rock Phosphates and Other Mineral Fertilisers. Their Origin, Value, and Sources of Supply

Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1903.

Octavo, 48 pages plus a large folding chromolithographic map (447 × 593 mm) of 'the Clinton Deposit'.

Wrappers (with full title page details reprinted on the front cover, and 'Summary of the Mining Acts and Regulations' on the verso) a little marked, brittle and chipped, with minimal expert consolidation to some edges; the entire pamphlet is creased where folded down the centre; an excellent copy.

Phosphate ore in South Australia was discovered at Clinton on Yorke Peninsula in 1899; the map is dated 22 February 1902.

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