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Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



Mr. Surveyor Giimbel of St. Ingbert notices the following order 

 of succession amongst the ingredients of the quicksilver veins which 

 traverse the carboniferous formation of the Palatinate. 



Mineral adjoining 

 wall of lode. 



Homstone 



Hornstone 



Homstone 



Iron pyrites 



Homstone 



Homstone 



Mineral resting on 

 that in first column. 



Sulphate of barytes. 



Semi-opal 



Fluor 



Cinnabar 



Cinnabar 



Cinnabar. 



Sulphate of barytes Cinnabar 



]!^Iineral resting on 



that in second 



column. 



Mineral resting on Mineral resting on 



that in third that in fourth 



.column. column. 



Iron pyrites 



Quartz 



Calc-spar 



Sulphate of barytes. 

 Native mercury . . . 



Cinnabar . 

 Cinnabar . 

 Quartz . . . 

 Quartz. 



Native mercury. 

 Asphalt. 

 Iron pyrites. 



Professor Breithaupt, who has long studied this subject, has 

 observed the following superposition of minerals in the metalli- 

 ferous veins of Saxony, Bohemia and Hanover : — 



At Zinnwald in the Erzgebirge; — containing rock— Gnbiss. 



Quartz 

 Quartz 

 Quartz 

 Quarts 



Mica 



Mica 



Mica 



Tungstate of lime 



Oxide of tin |Fluor. 



Wolfram JTungstate of lime, 



Galena Sulphuret of tin. 



Fluor. i 



At Altenberg in the Erzgebirge ; — containing rock — Porphyey. 



Quartz 

 Quartz 

 Quartz 

 Quartz 



Talc 



Specular iron ore . . 



Copper pyrites 



Sulphuret of bismuth 



Specular iron ore . . 



Fluor 



Sulphuret of bismuth 



Iron pyrites. 

 Spathose iron ore. 



At Ehrenfriedersdorf in the Erzgebirge ; — containing rock— Mica-slatk. 



Quartz Oxide of tin 



Quartz Oxide of tin 



Quartz Oxide of tin 



Quartz Wolfram •[ 



Quartz JMica 



Quartz ; Wolfram 



x^T^^e^r^ 1 'Sulphuret of molyb- 



Wolfram Copper pjrrites 



Topaz 



Wolfram 



Apatite 



Sulphuret of molyb- 

 denum 



Apatite 



Arsenical pyrites. 



} Gilbertite 



Tungstate of lime . . 



Apatite . . 



Blende 



Gilbertite. 



} Fluor. 



Herderite 



Tungstate of lime, 

 Fluor. 



Fluor and quartz. 

 Iron pyrites. 



Fluor. 



At Schlaggenwalde in Bohemia;— containing rock— Granite. 



Quartz 

 Quartz 



Quartz . . . . . 

 Quartz . . . . . 

 Oxide of tin 

 Oxide of tin . 



Oxide of tin , 

 Fluor 



Cupreous manganese 



Wolfram 



Topaz 



Tungstate of lime . . 



I Wood arseniate of 

 copper. 



Fluor. 

 Fluor. 

 Fluor. 



At Przibram in Bohemia ;— containing rock— Gbauwackk. 



Spathose iron ore. . 

 Spathose iron ore / 



Blende 



Red iron ore (in form 

 of spathose iron ore) 



Spathose iron ore 

 J Karbonspath. 



Blende. 



Quartz. 



At Neu-dorf in the Harz ; — containing rock — Clat<blate. 



Spathose iron ore. . 

 Spathose iron ore. . 



Galena / Antimonial gray 1 



*'*'*^"* |l copper ore. .. . / 



Quartz ISpathosc iron ore . . 



Copper pyrites .. 

 Galena / 



Pearl-spar. 



Boumonite. 

 Copper pyrites. 



