MINKRAI.nciCAl- NO IKS — ANDEIfSitN. 



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In addition to the forms which are listed in the table below p (750), 

 ,, (572) and (241) are doubtfully present. 



CnPRITE. 



Broken Hill, N.S.Wales. 



(PI. vii., lig. 6.) 



In the Broken Hill lode the chlel- copper .'.nnpounds are oxidised 



o,es the commonest being the blue and o-reen carbonates and cupnte : 



umU and dendritic masses of native copper and rare con.pounds such as 



^s iteand miersite are also found. The cuprite occux-s both massive 



ami as well developed crystals iu vughs and cracks or scattered over the 



^^^^'■Th:'fife:r;^ecTi^^^^^^^^^^^ Australian Museum collection comes from 

 the Broken Hil Proprietary Mine. The matrix m th.s case is a soft, 

 black amo^pho- sub.Lnce which consists chiedy of lead, and reacts also 

 for X^ur and copper, but a definite mineralogical name cannot be 

 assigned to it; perhaps it is identical with the materml -l-"!^ ^i . 

 tratch, iu'hii pap'er on stol.ite and raspite f-- J^^^f;;.^^,^ "J, 

 described as decomposed galena with a black fnable surface ( ^^ «tztex 

 Bleiglan. mit mulmiger schwarzer Oberrtache ), '^"^\ ^^*'\ ,, '^ 

 '' ootv sulphide ore'' of .laquef-- The cupnte crystals, uh.ch 



-•7 lIIawatsch-Auu. -l. k. k. ualurhi.t, llut.nus. Wi.-n, xii.. 1897. p. 33. 

 ■^n Jaquei-Mei... (_^col. tiurv. N.S.Wale^-^Jool. N... b, 1894. p. 88 



