Section IV., 1915 [119] Trans. R.S.C. 



Notes on Some Hitherto Unrecorded Occurrences in British Columbia, 



of Uncommon Minerals, Collected by the late 



W. J. Sutton, of Victoria. 



By R. W. Brock, F.R.S.C. 



(Read May Meeting, 1915) 



In the death of W. J. Sutton, Canada lost one of her most en- 

 thusiastic mineralogists. Unbounded was his love for his science 

 which may truly be said to have filled his life. It had been his hope 

 and intention to retire from his professional work, and to devote him- 

 self to the large mineralogical and petrographical collection which 

 he had gathered, presenting it to a public institution as the nucleus 

 of a museum, for the instruction and pleasure of his fellow citizens. 

 He possessed much geological and mineralogical knowledge of British 

 Columbia that is new which undoubtedly he would have given to the 

 woild had he secured the leisure to prepare it for publication. 



In looking over the collection recently, the writer noticed some 

 interesting specimens of minerals not generally known to occur in 

 British Columbia, and some whose occurrence, he believes, have not 

 been recorded. These will be mentioned and such as have not pre- 

 viously been recorded, should be credited to this ardent mineralogist. 

 As the collection numbers about 13,000 specimens, it is highly probable 

 that a careful examination would disclose many other new occurrences. 

 Realgar — occurs in masses of 6 m.m. diameter, liberally sprinkled 

 through calcite. Locality — Yreka Mine, Quatsino Sound, B.C. 

 Fibrofeirite — radio-fibrous silky masses of pale yellow color on de- 

 composed rock or ochre. It must occur in considerable amount, 

 as one specimen was about 5 cm. x 5 cm. x 2 | cm. — Locality 

 Bog Iron Mine, West Arm, Quatsino Sound, B.C. 

 Prehnite lining druses up to 5 cm. in diameter, often with quartz in 



centre. Locality — Head of Comox Lake, B.C. 

 Rhodonite — Locality Tobago Claim, Robertson River, Cowitchan 



Lake, B.C. 

 Wad — Locality — Salts Spring Island, B.C. 

 Ilvaite — Crystalline masses with chalcopyrite. Locality — Three Jays 



Mine, Alberni Canal, B.C. 

 Cinnabar — in veinlets and desseminated, in altered basic igneous rocks. 



Locality — Sechert, B.C. 

 Mercury — Native. Locality — Sechert, B.C. 



