1868. ] Mineralogy, Mining, and Metallurgy. 107 
Rammelsberg, and communicated to the German Geological 
Society.* A specimen of sand from the island of Santiago, in the 
Cape Verd group, has been examined by M. Silva, and found to 
consist of titaniferous iron ; as it occurs in considerable quantity it 
promises to become of commercial importance.t Some new analyses 
of Norwegian iron ores have been published by Mr. David 
Forbes.t 
Von Haidinger has laid before the Imperial Academy of Sciences 
of Vienna, two reports on an extraordinary shower of meteoric 
stones which fell on the 9th June, 1866, in the neighbourhood of 
Knyahinya, in the north-east of Hungary.§ 
The ‘South Durham and Cleveland Mercury’ speaks of a 
newly discovered deposit of gypsum, which within the last few 
months has been very successfully worked by Messrs. Jackson, 
Brayshay, and Jopling, of Lackenby. 
A small pebble picked up some time ago by a little girl at 
Hopetown, in Cape Colony, and used for a while as a child’s 
plaything, has turned out to be a diamond of the value of 5000. 
Several others have since been found, and the ‘Society of Arts 
Journal,’ quoting a Cape paper, says that people are now pro- 
specting in all directions for diamonds in the neighbourhood of 
Colesberg. Garnets have also been found in the Colony in con- 
siderable numbers. 
Amber—or at least a resinous substance reputed to be such— 
must be added to the long list of mineral products already furnished 
by Australia. It occurs in a large deposit, described as “a mine of 
amber,” at Grass Gulley, near Rokewood, and is said to correspond 
in all respects with the European mineral. |j 
Minina AND METALLURGY. 
Of practical Metallic Mining we have only to chronicle a con- 
tinuation of that depression to which we referred in our last 
number. The consequence of this is the extension of that distress 
which naturally arises from the want of labour. Happily, the 
benevolent have taken the serious question in hand, and it is to be 
hoped that the severities of winter will be ameliorated by their efforts. 
The most striking feature in Metalliferous mining has been the 
anxiety to supplement the labour of the Miner by machinery. At 
the late meeting of the Royal- Cornwall Polytechnic Society, a large 
number of Boring Machines were exhibited and described, and we 
now find that some of these are about to be introduced into the 
* Zeitschrift, xix. Heft IL., p. 400. 
+ ‘Comptes Rendus.’ 1867, No. 5, p. 207. 
} ‘Chemical News,’ Nov. 23, 1867, p. 259. 
§ Sitzungsber. d. k. ak. d. Wiss., Bd. LIV., p. 200 and p. £75. 
|| ‘Journ. Soe. Arts,’ Sep, 20, Oct. 4, 1867. 
