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the ore from rail to water, or the converse. Ores are exhibited 

 from the Marquette, Mesaba, Gogebec, Vermillion, aud Menominee 

 Ranges. The ore from the first-named locality is largely 

 micaceous-iron schist and specular ore ; from the others it is 

 mainly ochreous. 



Partial analyses accompany some of the exhibits. 



Case 88. Several very fine specimens of the famous Cumberland (Eng.) 

 hematite ; 569, 571, 573, and others ; Jcidney ore. 4188 ; ochreous. 

 574, 575, 576 ; specular iron ore with crystallised quartz. 

 These are fine attractive specimens. 



Saxony, "Westphalia, Belgium, Eussia, Gippsland (Yic), 

 Havenswood (Q.), and Kapunda (S.A.). 



583 is an average sample of the Spanish ore shipped in large 

 quantities to the English ironworks. 



5942, Blythe E-iver, Tasmania ; a good ore, containing 95'2 per 

 cent, of ferric oxide, 4'8 per cent, of silica, and but little of 

 phosphorus. 



Hydrated red oxide of iron. 584, Eadintz, Bohemia. 



A variety of hydrated oxide of iron. 



594, Eestormel Mine, Cornwall. 



Stalactitic and fibrous forms from Canada and the United States. 



3436, and others ; limonite ores from the Longdale Mine, 

 Tirginia, "svith a sample of the limestone flux in use there. 



6187, North of Ireland ; aluminous iron ore used for fluxing. 



8489, Hannan's Lake, West Australia : limonite pseudomor- 

 phous after chalybite. 



JSTumerous other specimens are exhibited. 



6933-4 ; the Cleveland ore (North Yorkshire) from which so 

 much of the Enghsh iron is obtained. The ore is an impure 

 carbonate. 



7244, Mount Black, Tasmania ; showing excellent little crystals 

 of chalybite. 



Turgite. 

 Gothite. 



Limouite. 



Chalybite. 



