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RUBELLANE !—Bank’s Peninsula (Haast. ) 
SappHire !—Southern Alps and Collingwood, in alluvial gold 
beds (Haast, Hutton), determined by Skey. 
Emery—Stewart Island. 
Saussurite !— Mount Torlesse, in gabbro (Haast). 
ScHEELITE !!!—Lake Wakatipu, Buckle Burn, Rees River, 
Waipori, Richardson Mountains, Havelock, solid lodes 
and large rolled fragments and in arsenical pyrites in 
the form of small grains (Hector 1863, McKay 1880). 
ScHILLER Spar !—West Coast, with iron pyrites (Hector.) 
Scuort !—Bedstead Gully, Mosquito Hill, Resolution Island, in 
gneiss and in micaceous and hornblendic schists (Hector). 
ScHROTTERITE !— Malvern Hills, filling the cavities in 
amygdaloidal trachytes, having a mammilated crust on 
its surface (Liversidge). 
SELENITE, or Gypsum ! ! — Widely distributed throughout 
Canterbury, Auckland, Nelson, New Plymouth, &c., as 
groups of crystals associated with sulphur, or as nests of 
crystals in clay or marls. It is very plentiful, and is 
mentioned several times in the Geol. Sur. and Lab. 
Reports. 
“ SELEN-SULPHUR” !—White Island, massive dark yellow varieties 
of sulphur (Liversidge, Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. X). 
SERPENTINE, or MArmontireE—Mineral Belt, Nelson, and Dun 
Mountain, as common serpentine forming rock masses 
(Hochstetter) ; Milford Sound, nobleserpentine, occurring 
with nephrite in thin grains (Hector). Analyses (Skey):— 
(1.) (I1.) (111.) 
Silica AtH4.0-20 OD BO Hob Ol 
Protoxide of iron 12°10 12-10 1:67 
Alumina ... traces traces 5:63 
Manganese... traces traces traces 
Chromium ... traces traces traces 
Magnesia .. 33°20 ° 34:02 35-07 
Water (consti- 
tutional ... De) 12:94 2-67 
98:20 100-06 100-95 
with gold and as a component of tetrahedrite; Golden 
Crown Mine, as rolled fragments. 
5 SMARAGDITE !—Red Hill, Collingwood, in diorite (Hector). 
SPH ROSIDERITE !— Mount Somers, Bank’s Peninsula, in volcanic 
a and dyke rocks (Haast). 
