XXxil VANUXEM’S REPORT. 
The collection of minerals and rocks consists of upwards of five hundred specimens. 
MINERALS FROM ABBEVILLE DISTRICT. 
Gold. Iron, (two species) magnet or gray ore, both massive and in the form of sand—titaniferous iron. Copper 
pyrites. Lead ore, (galena) in small quantity. Kaolin. Quartz crystals, common and ‘amethyst, abundant. 
Garnet, greenish yellow, for the first time discovered in the United States. Epidote. Amphiboles variety horn- 
blende. Lithomarge. 
ROCKS FROM THE SAME. 
Granite, (common and hornblende granite,) predominant rock. Sciente, very abundant and beautiful. Gneiss. 
Leptinite, a variety of this rock forms excellent oil stone—a fraud was put upon the State by using a disen- 
tegrated variety of this rock as a cement in building the Court House; it has no adhesive property whatever. 
Diabase, (green stone.) 
MINERALS FROM PENDLETON DISTRICT. 
Iron, magnetic or gray ore. Lead ore. Plumbago. Kaolin. Carb. lime. Tale, (lamilar.) Asbestus. 
Quartz crystals. Amphibole. Epidote. Tourmaline, (variety, schorl.) 
ROCKS FROM THE SAME. 
Gneiss, predominant rock. Mica, schiste. Limestone. Granite; serpentine, mixed with tale or’ actinolite. 
MINERALS FROM GREENVILLE DISTRICT. 
Iron, oligiste or red oxide, same as Elba. Lead ore in small quantity. Yttro-columbite, contains the colum- 
bium and earth yttria. Titianium, oxide, silico calcareous oxide. Emerald. Tourmaline. Sulphate of barytes. 
Feldspar. Kaolin. Lithomarge. Quartz crystals. Sulphur in small particles, arising from decomposition of 
pyrites. 
ROCKS FROM THE SAME. 
Gneiss. Granite. Green stone. 
MINERALS FROM SPARTANBURG DISTRICT. 
Gold. Pyrites. Do. white. Iron. Titanium, oxide. Plumbago. Garnet, (common and precious.) Tour- 
maline. Staurotide. Disthene. Feldspar. Tale, (scaly and schistose.) Phos. lime. Asbestus. Epidote. 
Quartz crystals. Amphibole, the sub species hornblende, tremolite and actinolite. 
ROCKS FROM THE SAME. 
Gneiss predominant. Granite, common and graphic. Mica schiste. Taleo—Mica—Schiste. Marble or 
granular limestone. Diabase. Leptinite. Quartz, granular. Hyalomicte, graisen. 
MINERALS FROM YORK DISTRICT. 
Tron. Magnetic or gray ore, very abundant, being worked for iron, black oxide with chrome-hydrate. Py- 
rites, common, magnetic. Lead ore, galena; it is found in the rock, but in small quantity. 
Sulphate of barytes, two localaties, and in great masses. Corundrum, adamantine spar. Asbestus. Tale, 
French chalk. Garnet. 
Hyalin quartz, very transparent ; in large pieces and fit for jewelry. 
ROCKS FROM THE SAME, 
Granite, common, porphyritic, hornblende. Mica—Schiste. Gneiss. Leptinite. Diabase, Quartz, schistose. 
Chlorite—Schiste. 
