62 JOURNAL OF THE 
during the past year, ana reference is made to this under 
the head of these minerals. 
These notes are intended primarily for a Bulletin on 
the Mineral Resources of North Carolina, but the more 
important of these are published as occasion offers. 
WELLSITE, A NEW MINERAL.” 
Occurence.—This mineral occurs at the Buck Creek 
(Cullakanee) corundum mine in Clay Co., North Carolina, 
and was collected by Professor S. L. Penfield and the 
author during the summer of 1892 while engaged in work 
on the North Carolina Geological Survey. 
The corundum vein in which the mineral is found is 
composed chiefly of albite feldspar and hornblende, and 
penetrates a peridotite rock, dunite, near its contact with 
the gneiss. The peridotite outcrop is one of the largest 
in the State and has been thoroughly prospected for cor- 
undum. <At only one of the veins opened was the new 
mineral found, although a carefui search was made for it 
at all the openings, especially those affording feldspar... 
No mining has been done at the locality since 1891, but if 
work is resumed and the veins uncovered, more of the 
materia] will undoubtedly be found, 
The mineral is found in isolated crystals mostly at- 
tached to the feldspar but also to hornblende and corun- 
dum, and is intimately associated with chabazite, (see p. 
70°, which occurs in small transparent rhombohedrons. 
The largest crystals that were observed were not over 
1™ in diumet: r and 2"™ in length. 
Crystalline form.—The crystals belong to the mono- 
clinic system and they are twinned similarly to those of 
harmotome and phillipsite. The common habit is shown 
in fig. 1, which represents a combination of twinning 
about c, 001 and ec, 011. The crystals dre practically 
square prisms, terminated by pyramidal faces, thus imi- 
*Am. J. Sci. Vol. III, p. 443, 1897. 
