Locality List of Minerals from Victoria. 85 



Clay iron ore. — See chalybite and spluerosiderite. 



Coal, brown coal, and lignite. — .Special reports on the coal- 

 fields of Victoria, containing very much useful informa- 

 tion, are issued from time to time by the Mines 

 Department. For a list of the principal localities see 

 M.H., p. 34. 



Cobalt. — See asbolite. 



Coccolite (var. of augite). — In basaltic rocks (Sel. 1S61). 

 Camperdown ; Daylesford ; Mount Franklin (P.R. 

 Vol. 3). 



Colophonite (Wine-yellow garnet). — Ovens (Bl. in TVs. R.S 

 Vic, 1865-6). 



Columbite.— Maldon (P.R. Vol. 3). 



Comptonite. — See Thomsoniie. 



Copaline. — Bass River, in lignite beds ; Coal Creek, not in situ 



(KM.). 



Copiapite. — Near Point Addis, in tertiary beds (M. 1866). 

 Spring Creek, near Geelong, probably results from the 

 decomposition of iron pyrites (N.M.), analysis by Mr. 

 R. Daintree in Catalogue of National Museum, Mel- 

 bourne, 1868. Mornington (T.M.). Castlemaine (1), 

 brownish crusts and stains on spoil and pyrites heaps 

 (T.S.H.). Basic sulphate of iron is also recorded from 

 Buninyong with iron-alum (T.M.). Angahook (B.S. 

 1872). See Melanterite. 



Copperas. — See Melanterite. 



Copper (native). — Thompson River, rounded pieces in the wash ; 

 Thompson River Copper Mine ; Wilson's Reef, St. 

 Arnaud ; Specimen Gully, Castlemaine, thin small 

 scales ; Steiglitz ; Louisa Ranges, Crooked River (M. 

 1866). Rodney Mine, near Ballarat, filamentous; 

 Malmsbury, basalt quarries, small grains in sphserosi- 

 derite (B.S. 1872). Thompson River, with moss copper 

 (N.M.). Climes, in tertiary drifts (M. 1870). Sebas- 

 topol and Egerton, thin strings and arborescent forms 

 in silurian shales (P. 1870), see note by Mr. J. C. 

 Newbery in the same volume. Bethanga, in quartz ; 

 Richmond, specks on basalt (P. 1877-8). Stawell ; 

 Blackwood ; Ballarat, in bed-rock under the deep leads 



