Fletch

It's pronounced, the thing that the tin rush that they went after is pronounced cassiterite.

Cassiterite.

Now, how they found it was, it was the late 1800s and people were all about that gold.

Before, everybody was all about that base, about that base.

No trouble.

They were all about that gold.

Two prospectors decided to get in a boat and go around Stewart Island because they're like, no one's down here.

No one's locked.

Yeah, right.

We'll get down here.

There might be some gold, you know.

So they went around and they found a little bit of gold, but they were like, it's hard to get out because it's annoying heavy black sand.

And they were like, it's just not worth the effort.

So anyway, they took some of the black sand and sent it off to a university professor in Otago and then forgot about it.

And then this guy kind of did nothing about it.

And then he's like, hold on, checked it.

And he's like, this is tin.

Right.

We got ourselves a precious medal down there.

So he was kind of a bit at the port trying to get a ride because he's a professor.