(Newcastle Journal. April 02, 1869)

For sale by private tender the Lapilla Pyrites mine (within one and a half miles from the Tharsis Railway), Spain.

This Mine comprises four pertinencias or setts of Cupreous Sulphur Pyrites of the finest quality, fully opened out and capable of producing at present 1,000 Tons per Month, which quantity can immediately be doubled by further development of the ground.

The Lode has been opened out on the “pillar and room” system of mining, proving so far 200 yards in length, 48 yards wide, depth known 30 yards of solid mineral.

The situation is well adapted for utilising any poor ores by the Cementation process.

10,000 Tons of this Pyrites have been supplied to Messrs John Hutchinson & Co., Chemical Manufacturers, Widnes, Lancaster, who will testify to the value of the mineral.

Further particulars may be obtained by application to SYDNEY YOUNG & Co., 33, Gracechurch Street, London ; JOHN RICHARDSON, 4, Clarence Buildings, Manchester ; or JOHN M. BURNUP, Newcastles-upon-Tyne, with one of whom the tenders must be lodged on or before the 1st May, 1869.