22 MINERAL CENSUS OF AUSTRALASIA. 
Ipocrasz, or VesuvianiTE !—Dusky Sound, as dirty-green, fluted 
prismatic crystals in quartz associated with crystalline. 
rocks (Docherty), (identified by Skey). 
IDRIALITE, or INFLAMMABLE CrINNABAR !—Dunstan, Serpentine 
Valley, Waipori, Ohaeawai Springs, occurs as rounded 
grains in alluvium (Hector). Analysis (Skey) :— 
Water sna ae it 6°89 
Hydrocarbon As Pie it) 
Cinnabar... bas Ay 0) 
Sand ohh Ye WM EST DL 
100-00 
ItmenitE !—Taranaki, in iron sands in all parts of New Zealand,. 
especially Taranaki. 
IrmposMInE !—Takaka, Orepuke, occurs in gold wash as small 
flat grains (Hochstetter). 
Tron Pyrires ! !—Collingwood, Wakatipu district, &c., occurs in 
octahedral crystals (Lab. and Geol. Reports). 
Tsering !!—Common on the West Coast, S. I, (Lab. and Geol. 
Reports). 
JADE, NEPHRITE, or AXxE-STONE ! !—Milford Sound, Teremakau 
River, known as “maori greenstone.” It occurs as 
rolled pieces on the beach and as white nephrite 
(Hector), Analysis (Skey) :— 
Silica ae oon POL Ue 
Ferric oxide, ate eens of man- 
ganese and chronium ee Res 
Adami a Re Fe 1:42 
Lime “ef Me Zan 9:00 
Magnesia... his -0 4 2eoo 
Soda ~~ rn ... traces 
Water (constitutional) ae 97 
95-20 
Kaoutn ! ! !—Manuherikia, Arrow River, Mount Somers, Colling- 
wood, Stewart Island, formed by the decomposition of 
felsite porphyries (Hector, Cox). 
Kermes !—Endeavour Inlet, occurs with stibnite. 
Kyanite, or DistHene !—Westland, associated with quartz. 
Lasraporire ! !— Purahanui Range, Mount Charles, Bank’s 
Peninsula, in trachydolerites (Hector, Haast). 
Leap (Native) !—Collingwood, in the wash of a creek in the form 
of round grains, like shot. It is alloyed with gold 
(Skey,; Tr. N2Z.,. dn. SGT, pd 67): 
LepipouiTe !—Thompson Sound, in marble (Hector). 
