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Smoky quartz. — See cairngorm. 



.Specular iron. — Sandy Creek, Tarrengower, tabular crystals, 

 sparingly ; Mahnsbury, in dole rite and dolerite por- 

 phyry (M. 1866). Grampian Mounts (KM.). Bonang, 

 with magnetic iron (P. 1876). Bairnsdale (M.R. 1889). 

 Dookie ; Mia Mia ; Riversdale ; Snowy Creek ; Yarra 

 River (M.H.). Footscray ; Bedesdale (P.R. Vol. 3). 

 Moyston (P.R. Vol. 4). Iron glance from Western 

 Port (P.R. Vol. 7). Beechworth (M.S. 1886). Mount 

 Korong, in granite (KM ). County Millewa (P. 1884). 

 Lake Tyers (M.R.F.). See also hematite, red ochre, 

 micaceous iron. 



Sph^rosiderite. — In the basalt of many localities, as Loddon 

 outliers ; Sunbury ; Campaspe Falls ; Ballan, etc. 

 Nodular masses in the mesozoic coal measures near 

 Geelong (M. 1866). Essendon (KM.). Carbonate of 

 iron occurs at Steep-bank Creek, Wannon district ; 

 Italians' diggings, Barf old, junction of basalt and 

 sandstone (KM.). Mahnsbury, in basalt (P. 1871). 

 Sarsfield ; Pleasant Creek (T.M.). Clay iron ore at 

 Avoca (P. 1874). See also chalybite. 



Sphalerite. — Specimen Cully, Castlemaine (Sel. 1861). In the 

 auriferous reefs of perhaps all our gold fields, but more 

 frequently in Russell's Reef, near Mahnsbury ; Nuggety 

 Reef, Maldon ; Wilson's Reef, St. Arnaud ; Morse's 

 Creek ; Ovens district, etc. (M. 1866). Francis Ormond 

 Reef ; Crown Nimrod Reef ; Mopoke Gully ; Scotch- 

 man's Gully, all near Castlemaine (T.S.H.). St. AiTiaud, 

 in the silver mines (N.M.). Buchan, in lead mine; 

 Back Creek ; Swift's Creek ; many reefs at Bendigo ; 

 Steiglitz ; Inglewood ; Rushworth (P. 1873). Victoria 

 Reef, Maldon (P. 1874). Foster (P. 1876). Bethanga 

 (M.S. 1884). Stuart Mill, from core of diamond drill ; 

 Ballarat; Percydale (M.S. 1886). Maldon (T.M.). 

 Wombat Creek (M.R. 1890). Boggy Creek ; Buchan; 

 Haunted Stream; Omeo (CI.). Murrindall ; Wanga- 

 ratta (T.M.). Amherst; Blackwood; Clunes ; Dayles- 

 ford ; Gordons ; Llanelly ; Stawell (P.R, Vol. 3). 



Sphene. — Near Heathcote, in diabase rocks (H. 1896). 



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