Locality List of Minerals from Victoria. 101 



Mineral resin. — Two kinds occur in the Lai Lai lignite deposits, 

 one resembling middletonite, and the other resembling 

 retinite from the Bovey coal. Another occurs at Cape 

 Patterson (M. 1866). 



Mirabilite. — Efflorescences on the walls of Prospector's Tunnel 

 at Mitchell's diggings, Campaspe River (N.M.). (Geo. 

 Sur. I Sheet 13 S.E.). Stawell (P.R. Vol. 3). 



Mispickel. — Generally distributed (Sel. 1861). Except pyrites, 

 the most frequent ore in auriferous reefs ; occurs in 

 veins, patches, or impregnated ; crystals in the slate 

 and sandstone walls ; Whip Reef, Bendigo ; Lisle's and 

 Manton's Reefs, Tarrengower ; Wilson's Reef, St. 

 Arnaud ; Nimrod and Wattle Gully Reefs, Castle- 

 maine, etc. (M. 1866). Barf old Ranges, with scorodite 

 in quartz (KM.). St. Arnaud ; Glen Dim (P. 1868). 

 Maldon ; Blackwood ; Omeo ; Donnelly's Creek ; Bright ; 

 Landsborough (P. 1870). Enoch's Point (P. 1873). 

 Stockyard Creek (P. 1876). Bethanga (P. 1878). 

 Band and Albion Mine, Ballarat (P. 1880). Beech- 

 worth (P. 1882-3). Ajax Mine, Castlemaine (P. 1885). 

 Chiltern, in granite (P. 1889). Swift's Creek, in a dyke 

 (M.S. 1884). Grant, argentiferous ; Upper Mitchell 

 River; Ballarat; Granya (M.S. 1886). Walhalla ; 

 Doon (M.R. 1889). Alexandra (M.R. 1890). Upper 

 Yarra (T.M.). Boggy Creek; Deptford ; Baldhill 

 Creek ; Dargo ; Wombat Creek ; Haunted Stream 

 (CI.). Nearly all auriferous reefs below the water line ; 

 Amherst ; Ararat ; Blue Mountain ; Bonang ; Buchan ; 

 Cathcart ; Egerton ; Lauriston; Majorca; Maryborough ; 

 Steiglitz ; Stawell ; Woods Point (P.R, Vol. 3). 

 Bethanga (M.R. 1896). See note after iron ores. 



Molybdenite. — Yackandandah and Reedy Creek, fine hexagonal 

 plates in quartz veins traversing granite ; the Breweries, 

 near Maldon (M. 1866). Latrobe River (B.S. 1872). 

 Yea, in granite ; Bradford Lead, Maldon, in rock 

 crystal and cairngorm ; Nuggetty Reef, Maldon ; 

 Mount Moliagul (M. 1870). Wattle Gully Reef, 

 Castlemaine, in quartz (P. 1876). Near Berlin, in 

 quartz (P. 1878). Bulgoback, Gippsland (P. 1879-80). 



