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AZURITE—Comp. 
Blue carbonate of copper is not of so common occurrence as 
malachite. It is often present in gossans of lodes, and not 
unfrequently in a crystalline state. 
In the Tinaroo district it occurs with malachite at Mount 
Garnet, with cassiterite and malachite in the Clan Ronald, 
Eureka Creek, in the North Australian mine, and in the Great 
Northern P.C. 
At the Peak Downs copper mines azurite has been found in 
some quantity, and in lesser amount in the Mount Perry copper 
mines. At the Mount Orange copper mines azurite accompanies 
malachite, hematite, and black oxide of copper. 
In the Kennedy copper mine, Sandy Creek, to the west of the 
Great Star River, a very pure azurite occurs crystallized in rhombic 
prisms and pyramids and in radiating botryoidal masses. 
On the north bank of Pumpkin Gully, near Cloncurry, some 
very blue azurite occurs in a nearly vertical copper lode, running 
south-west and north-east. Azurite is also found in the Homeward 
Bound and other mines in the same district. 
BISMUTHITE—Comp. hydrous carbonate of bismuth. 
Bismuthite in some quantity has been found in the Cloncurry 
district, some specimens from that locality showing free gold in 
this matrix, 
In conclusion I would venture to remark that my interest in 
the minerals of Queensiand does not terminate with this catalogue, 
and I shall gladly receive from any one who is ready to help on a 
useful work, either specimens of the above-mentioned and other 
minerals with definite localities and associations assigned them, 
or authentic accounts of the occurrence of these or other minerals 
from localities or in associations not mentioned in this catalogue. 
The minerals of Queensland must play an important part in the 
development of the colony, and it will be advantageous to obtain 
and bring together as much information on the subject as possible. 
I shall therefore hope to be able, and to be allowed, to put before 
the Royal Society further notices of the Queensland-found minerals 
as my personal observations increase, and as assistance in the same 
direction is afforded me by others. 
