Locality List of Minerals from Victoria. 109 



granite dyke at Beechworth (M. 1870). Maldon, with 



calcite, dolomite, etc. (M.S. 1875-6). 



Pykrhotite. — Howqua district, in the reefs ; Maldon, in several 

 reefs ; Specimen Gully Reef, Castlemaine, etc. (M. 

 1866). Green Gully, near Newstead (P. 1874). Beth- 

 anga (P. 1886). Near Stawell (T.M.). Lancetield ; 

 Mount Timbertop ; Waratah Bay (P.R. Vol. 3). 



Quartz (common vein quartz). — The massive variety, the most 

 common of colonial minerals, is represented by the 

 thousands of reefs that traverse the silurian rocks, and 

 also as extensive beds of quartz rock, sometimes nearly 

 forty feet thick, in the tertiary formations. Druses 

 occur in all the reefs (M. 1866). In veins on all the 

 gold fields in East Gippsland (CI.). Granular quartz 

 at Mount Franklin, in basalt ; stalagmitic at Back 

 Creek, near Baynton, in a cave in granite ; mammillated 

 quartz at Phillip Island (N.M.). Cavernous quartz 

 from Gippsland (P. 1883). Quartz enclosed in basalt 

 from Anakies ; Phillip Island ; Mount Franklin (T.M.). 

 Iridescent quartz at Mount Taylor (CI.). See limonite 

 for other occurrences of this iridescent film. 



Quartz crystals. — See Rock crystal. 



Quicksilver. — See Mercury. 



Randanite. — See Infusorial earth. 



Realgar. — Deptford and Mount Baldhead, in quartz cavities 

 (CI.) Sulphide of arsenic occurs at Stawell (P.R. Vol. 3). 



Red ochre. — Generally distributed in tertiary rocks (Sel. 1861). 

 Frequent in the tertiary rocks round the coast (M. 

 1866). All parts of the colony ; extensive deposits in 

 connection with the older basalt of Phillip Island ; 

 also at Ballan ; Blackwood ; Daylesford ; Bacchus 

 Marsh ; Tarwin River ; Anderson's Inlet (P. 1876). 

 White Hills, Bendigo (P. 1877-8). Boggy Creek ; 

 Wombat Creek ; Omeo (CI.). Near Bendigo (M.S. 

 1875-6). See also hematite. 



Redruthite. — Sec chalcocite. 



Retinite. — Bruthen Creek, Gippsland (P. 1880-1). Woodside, 

 Gippsland (P.R. Vol. 7). Near Cape Bridgewater 

 (P.R. Vol. 3). See also mineral resin and copaline. 



