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iiabar occurs on the (Jiidgegong in drift lumps and jiebbles, and is probably the result 

 of springs, as in California. In New Zealand, and in the neighborhood of the Clarke 

 Eiver, north Queensland, the same ore occurs in a similar way. 



About this (late work was in progre.ss on a quicksilver mine on the 

 Cudgegong-/ but in 18 7G t]ie official reports pass it over in silence. In 

 1878 specimens of cinnabar and quicksilver were exhibited in Paris,^ 

 but no information was afforded concerning the character of the deposits. 

 Cinnabar has been mined at the Wilkinson mine in Kilkivan, iifty miles 

 from Maryborough, Queensland.^ According to the prospectus of a mining 

 company a few tons of quicksilver were extracted in Kilkivan in 1885. 

 Cinnabar is said to exist in West Australia also.* 



Mr. Noggerath reports small quantities of crystalline cinnabar in a 

 gold vein in Bendigo County, Victoria. This very interesting occurrence 

 is not mentioned by Mr. William Nicholas in his catalogue of localities of 

 minerals which occur in Victoria,' nor by Mr. R. B. Smyth in his Mines and 

 Mineral Statistics of Victoria.* The observation has probably never before 

 been published in English. The same author mentions gold amalgam at 

 German Reef, on tlie Tarrangower. 



New Zealand. — As loug ago as 18()G it was known that quicksilver 

 occurs a few miles southeast of Omapere Lake, near the Bay of Islands. 

 In 1870 Mr. F. W. Hutton^ visited the locality, where there are numerous 

 springs, hot and cold. He found two warm sulphur springs accompanied 

 by mercurial deposits. The sandstone was impregnated with native mer- 

 cury and cinnabar. He also detected an open vein a quarter to a half 

 inch in width in tlie sandstone, lined with a black ore of mercury, accom- 

 panied by sulphur and globules of quicksilver. He ascertained that this 

 black ore was a sulphide containing some iron. Mr. Ilutton thus nearly 

 anticipated Dr. G. E. Moore's discovery of metacinnabarite. This ore is 

 now known to occur at several mines in California, at Huitzuco in Mexico, 



' Annual Report of the Department of Mines, New South Wales, 1875, Sydney, 187G, p. 31. 

 ■2 Kepts. of the U. S. Conimissionere Paris Univ. Exp., 1ST8, vol. 4, p. 246. 

 3 D. (le Cortazar, loc. cit. 



•■R. Acton: Encyc. Brit., 'Jth edition, article Austr.alia 

 s Geo!. Survey Victoria, Kept. Prog., 1876, p. 280. 

 t" Prepared for the Victorian exhibition, 1872. 

 'Trans. New Zeal. Institute, vol. 3, 1870, p. 252. 

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