Newspaper Clippings
Oxford Press
5th November 1893
Azahel Griest has opened a spar mine on the farm of Edward Boyd, West Nottingham, which he purchased from John Welch some time ago. Mr. Griest has dug down a distance of about 20 feet below the surface and has taken out about 1500 weight of spar. It is of excellent quality and runs in a large vein from a northeastern to a southwestern direction. He has also found mica of the purest quality and soapstone of elegant appearance, also some of the finest white building sand ever found in these parts. This looks quite encouraging to Mr. Griest when there is nothing thought of or talked about except silver and gold – from one who was down in the pit and saw the operations.
With the above came some specimens of mica of nice quality – Eds. Press
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