258 MINERALS OF THE MIDLANDS. 



Fluor Spar . . Clifton . . . . Carboniferous Limestone. 



Gothite . . . . Clifton . . . . Dolomitic Conglomerate. 



Jasper . . . . Tortworth . . 



-r, , .. (Woodford Bridge, I T , 



Prelmite .. -, Berkeley _ B ; - Igneous rock. 



Rock Salt (pseu- I A 1 T 



domorphs) . . j i ° 



Steatite . . Tortworth . . . . Igneous rock. 



Talc . . . . Tortworth . . . . Igneous rock. 



Vivianite . . Near Clifton . . Alluvium. 



Enumerated by H. B. Woodward, Geology of East Somerset and 

 the Bristol Coal-Fields (Mem. Geol. Survey), pp. 176, 177. The 

 mineralogical characters of the Basalts from Charfield Green and 

 Damory are described by Mr. F. Rutley on pp. 210-212 of the same work. 



LEICESTERSHIRE. 



Mr. W. J. Harrison, 1 G. .. Science Demonstrator for the Birming- 

 ham School Board, has s nt ne the following note :— " Gold* occurs 

 in the quartz veins rounc Pc liar Tor, a craggy pinnacle in the north- 

 west part of Charnwood For st. The point is very near one of the old 

 volcanic foci from whicli th as hes which form the Charnwood slates 

 were ejected." 



Mr. Harrison discovc 5 iuts in the gneiss of Charnwood Forest, 

 and thus refers to them in t j " Midland Naturalist," Vol. II., p. 77 : — 

 "To-day, in minutely . lining some specimens collected last 

 summer, I was pleased t find many small garnets in the curious rock 

 we call gneiss, which is . a 1 at one point only, viz., Brazil Wood, 

 about half -way between Mount Sorrel and Swithland. . . . The 

 garnets are very small (i t more than one-tenth of an inch in 

 diameter), almost black in colour, and so thickly crowded that there 

 are about fifty in a square inch." 



Mr. James Plant, F.G.S., of Leicester, has sent the following list : — 



Copper Pyrites.. | Mount Sorrel am M Granite 

 Molybdenum .. J Breedon .. .. } 



Galena . . . . I pjiminsdale . , ... Mountain Limestone. 



Blende .... J ) 



Dolomite . . Cloud Hill . . . . Mountain Limestone. 



Gypsum .. i Various places. 



Selenite . . j r 



Marcasite is found in the vertical fissures of the coal, and also in 

 the "binds," at Whitwick, ElliBton, and Bagworth Collieries. 



Iron Pyrites in cubes, one-eighth in side, at Swithland Great Pit, 

 embedded in the slate not in line of bedding. 



Tin Stone found some years ago in the streams at Tin Meadows, 

 near Whitwick, Charnwood Forest, as Stream Tin. 



Mr. Wm. Stukeley Gresley sends the following references to works 

 bearing on the minerals of Leicestershire :— Hull's "Coal Fields of 



* Discovered by Mr. How. Incidentally mentioned by the President of the 

 Geological Society. See •'Quartcrh Journal. Geological Society." XXXVI.. p. 350, 



