TK. Gaeve : fw cleo ¢(s): 10-1 fete Dette Bakes — hIZOCRIEAT ce MARSMAN ws MA GAZINE MARSMAN PRODUCTIONS REMAIN STEADY Operations at the Maxsman managed companies during July were featured by the considerable increase in production in Coco Grove. Suyoe Consolidated also showed an increase over the previous month's recovery. Coco Grove's total output for July wax P203,004.82 from the dredging of 838,275 eubie yards of gravel, compared with P171,126.00 for the month of June. The dredye Mary Angus operated in very good ground with a total recovery of P122,201.04. The dredge Aune Petronetla also showed an increase. Suyne Consolidated treated 6,434 tons of ore for a gross recovery of P150,- 141.95, an average of 723.46 per ton. The average per ton and the extraction percentage showed an increase over last month, The total production of all Marsman managed properties during July was 17,643.852.00 fram the treatment of 79.949 tows of are, and the dredging of 138975 cubic yards of gravel. SAN MAURICIO TO PAY DIVIDEND ‘The board of directors of San Mau- * riciv Mining Company declared a 40%: dividend ut 2 meeting held August 25th, in the Marsman Building. Port Area, ‘This is the third cush dividend paid this year by San Manrieio in sddition fo a 1007 stock dividend, The divi deyd deekired yesterday ix to be putid on September 20th to shareholders of von September 22rd, This brings the excellent dividend performance of San Mauricio to a total of 171,900,000 paid to shareholders dur- inge this year. On March 22, 1939, 501 dividend was declared; on April 4th a 100¢) stock dividend was de hich yaised the capital from 4,000, 100-10 P.000,000, On June 24th a 30% dent wns paid. sid the lust dividend tw he declared s far this year was 40%To THE TEKTITES OF COCO GROVE By D. VAN EEK In addition to gold, there are many varied articles found in the sands ‘worked by Coco Grove, Inc. in Paracale, Camarines Norte, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Many ancient Spanish and Chinese coins and small amounts of an- cient jewelry are found in the table con- centrates and on the mud pile behind the dredge. Quartz fragments, many species of shells, and occasionally “glass-bullets”, technically known by the geologists’ as tektites are encoun- tered; the latter will be considered in this article. Tektites are _a type of meteorites which are classified as glass meteorites. Meteorites are fragments of cosmic bodies which, like the earth, had a ma- tallie core and a silicate crust, ‘There are three different kinds of meteorites. Tektites found in several parts of the world, have been given special Jocal names according to the slightly appearance and the chemical jon from place to place. Dr. H. Otley Beyer, who was the first to find them in the Philippines (1926), called the tektites found here: Rizalifes, for ality was in the Rizal Provin ‘on Luzon, Before we come to the tektites of Coco Grove, I shall try to give a very short compilation of the recent knowl- edge of the tektites found over the world. APPHARANCE AND ORIGIN The glass has a very high lustre and is similar in appearance to the dark glass-slag of the assay office. ‘The regular shapes, fluxion lines, and high lustre have been formed from the consolidation of a liquid or semi- Tiguid mass in a free media in which a high temperature is possible; conse- quently they appear to have fallen from the sky. Therefore, they ean be only products shot into the air from volea- nos or they can be remains of some heavenly body, in other words, a variety of meteorite. ‘The volear theory has been rejected at the present time by most of the geo- logists who haye considered the prob- Jem: because of the following prineipal fe 1, The tektites differ in chemica composition and optical properties from all known volcanic glasses 2. ‘They are frequently found hun- dreds of miles distant from voles activity and often deeply buried in al- luvial deposits which do not contain other voleanic materials. 3 Their shape and surface mark- ings differ from any known voleanie produet. 4. The practical absence of erystal- Tzation, which is not characteristic of natural 5. ‘The fluxion line ted (spirals) which higher temperature are highly com- point to than t rved lines of the 6. Th bution of the tektites rt Jong peciline ¢ :LOCATION OF TEKTITES OVER THE WORLD The map above shows the places where tektites Have been found. From the map it is evident that most of them occur slong one circle-hand which is for the greatest part in the northern hemisphere. Of course tektites which fell on moun- tainous ground, crashed to pieces and their remains were wehed down by the rivers; only those which fell in water or into soft clays and sonds are pre- served. Therefore, tektites are mostly found on the bottom land and the boundaries of the sea, pr more or less their original shape. Tie Mausnian MAGHINE for Aupust, 1939 In as much as they are found in one gircle-band, it appears as if they. came down in one big shower, but as the ex- act age of the tektites of the different finding places is not known, no_gen eral conclusion can be drawn. How: ever, they are all fo s clays of the Quaternary period. If they all came down in one big shower, the few found, outside the circle-band, may represent early or late fragments from the main shower, which struck away from the main localities due to the rotation of the earth; or present different showers. polkEXPLOSION OF A TEKTITE * Recently I found an oval shaped tek- tite (ca. 32-4") on the dredge Mary Angus at about 8 o'clock in the afternoon. Two hours later I walk- ed with it to the office and while talking in the office, the mill foreman, Mr. H. Hornbostel looked at it and said to me “Say, someone dropped your tektite on the floor, look it is shipped off a little.” I told him that that was not unusual as they chipped off many times by themselves while hand- Jing them. At home I placed the tektite at the table in the middle of the room = oe X-rey picture of same specimen of XIV show and being tired, went to bed early. I ing large cavity in the middte and two very had fallen asleep when a loud report — ‘leer groovse om the left side, and the noise of pieces of glass fal- ling, woke me up. I thought some- my window. But when I switched on : stag aa the light, T saw that the toktite had body had thrown a large stone through exbiodad and splinters and larger frag ments were scattered ll over the room (within a radius of ca, 3 feet), Later on examining the bigger frag- ments, in the center of the tektite, a big oval hole was found, (V7 x 2"), having a yery smooth and high lus: trous surface like a hollow mirror. ‘This must have been a gass-hole. The tektite was found ea. 50 feet be- low the surface. Assuming that the covering layers have a specific grav- ity of 3, the pressure at 50 fect (ca. 15 m.) must he ea, 4 atm. (10m, water Spec. grav. 1 causes a pressure of 1 atm, So 13 m, material of spee. grav. 2 results in a pressure of 3 atm, & 1 atm. of the air causes 4 atm.) So we can expect th eof the tektite had a ure of at Toast 4 Uf atin,