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Mercury.- — Swamp Creek, a tributary of the "VYentworth River, 

 Gippsland, in alluvial (Jorgensen, teste CI.). The 

 "Age," 12th March, 1895, reported the finding of 

 cinnabar and free mercury in considerable quantities 

 at Jameson River. The "Argus," 21st January, 189C, 

 imported ores of mercury in the neighbourhood of 

 Beaconsfield. 



Mesitite (carbonate of iron and magnesia). — Bendigo (T.M.). 



Mesolite. — Clunes, in basalt from a shaft, with calcite, etc. (M. 

 1870). Richmond quarries (P. 1877-8). South Clunes 

 (P. 1879-80). Near Melbourne; Collingwood (T.M.). 

 Preston Yale (PR. Vol. 3). 



Mesotvpe. — See Natrolite. 



Mica (no species named). — Loddon Plain ; Muckleford Creek ; 

 Castlemaine ; Bendigo; Stawell (T.M.). Near Harrow ; 

 Glenelg ; various localities (Sel. 1861). Bethanga (P. 

 1889). Phillip Island in older basalt (P. 1877-8). 

 Inglewood (P. 1891). Dargo, in dyke rock (H. in Trs. 

 R.S. Vic, 1887). Green mica, Beechworth, in granite 

 (Trs. R.S. Vic, 1874). Colourless mica, near Heathcote, 

 in granite (H. 1896). See biotite and muscovite. 



Micaceous iron. — Grampians, in veins of metamorphic rocks ; 

 Lake Tyers ; other places in Gippsland (M. 1866). 

 Northern parts of the colony (B.S. 1872). Boggy 

 Creek (P.R. Vol. 7). Dunolly ; Snowy River ; Loddon 

 River; Flemington (P. 1873). Dargo River; Nowa 

 Nowa; Fernbank (M.R. 1889). Omeo ; Dookie ; 

 Mitchell River (M.H.). Bairnsdale ; Beechworth ; 

 Snowy Creek ; Twofold Bay (P.R. Vol. 3). See hema- 

 tite and specular iron. 



Microcline. — Dargo, specks in aplite (H. in Trs. R.S. Vic, 1887, 

 p. 136). 



Middletonite. — See mineral resin. 



Mimetesite. — St. Arnaud, in the silver reefs (M. 1866). In 

 the mineral veins throughout the colony (B.S. 1866). 

 Corner Inlet (M.H.). 



Mineral charcoal.— South Clunes (P. 1879-80). Durham 

 Lead, Ballarat, at the junction of a basaltic lava and 

 overlying the gold-drift (T.M.). 



