MllltefeALOGICAL NOTES : NO. V. — ANDERSON. 



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BARITE. 



Commonwealth mine, Wellington, New South Wales. 



(Plate Ixxviii., fig. 1). 



Crystallised barite is by no means common in New South Wales; 

 in fact the crystals now dealt with and those from St. Peter's 

 near Sydney" are the only examples known to me. 



At the Commonwealth Mine it occurs as clusters of trans- 

 parent, colourless or slightly yellowish (iron stained) crystals, 

 with prismatic development along the b axis. The faces are not 

 quite smooth and the angles obtained are not very good. 



" Anderson — Ree. Austr. Mus., vi., 2, 1905, p. 89, pi. xix., f. 2. 



