See ee 
* 
Seventh Supplement to Dana’s Mineralogy. 143 
— nearly with the analyses of the Brazilian bornite by Damour. Sp. gravity 
TaerMoray.irre [Suppl. VI].—The the Nite of Hoponsuo contains, ac- 
cording " A. B. Northcote (mean of two analyses Phil. Mag., [4], xvi, 263: 
Al Fe Mg Na H °f ona at 212°F, 
41 48 5°49 1°59 37°42 2°84 10 loge hath 9°70 
It is stated “ occur in aggregated masses - a brownish gray co alk semi-tra 
lucent, in so arts micaceous, through nips massive ihermophylite nye 
e par rock 
talline form ak determinable. [It b Haseuabled vermiculite in appear 
before the blowpipe.] 
Trranic Inon.—See Jlmenite. 
Tourmatine [270, II, IV].—A fine —_ jraat ore re prewonurph after tourma- 
line, three inches long and two in dia eer piso D. 
geol. Ges., x, 12). It contains some puatored “nek fore ie is a 
pre prism with the faces also of a 12-sided prism. It was from ‘hose 
phe 1858), at the Pequa Lead Mine, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, in minute erys- 
it ai 
—. The color varies from siskin to apple- gree n. Small crystals of cerusite 
occur in the cavities of the a aida 
Vornauserite, Kenngott,—See Retinalite under Serpentine. 
Wavetuire [423 aye —A compound Rag orerey® wavellite in compositi 
curs, according to A. Gages (Jour. Geol. Soc., Dublin, viii, 73), forming the caine of 
& conglomerate found as a boulder near Loughhill, count y of Limerick. It is com- 
ea of small emerald-green i mingled with some white ones and forming 
mamillary concretions, Analysis by A. Gages: 
cl Ni em H. Si 
80°88 36:16 1: 81 033 tr. 2356 361 apatite 1°58, quartz 1:00—98°94 
The formula deduced is (A, jie Vite a but it is stated to be proposed merely as 
4n expression of a single 
On the formula of Kapnicite by Stiadeler. ee Ann., cix, 305. 
WHITNEYITE, Genth (ies Jour., [2], xxvii, 400).— Whitneyite is an arseniuret 
of copper peveamann * about 12 per cent of pine or ts ee of arsenic to 18 
of copper =copper el seeds 1163==100. Struc e crystalline, fine 
granular. Weees. G.=8'408 (at 16° C.). “Lustre eotadieey ‘ecb pale reddish- 
white ; tarnishes rea dily, becoming yellowish and changing to to brown and finally to 
brown's sh-black ; sometimes iridescent. Somewhat malleable. Composition accord- 
. Genth: 
As “4 ‘81 Cu me et Ag and insoluble eae 
“41 
“Mineral Wealth of the U. Sta 
Xenorme [401, I, I, Ee our, according to a recent 
analysis (Bull. Géol. [21 xi 6 542, Kopp’s Tahresb, for 1857, 686), is xenotime. An 
~~ se ewe 2 Eee ee 
has been announced as occurring on the Mittamitta river, Aus- 
tal 100ml orbs om Melba It contains a little cadmium.—Jabrb. 
Be 
