224 G. ±>. Kunz — Mineralogical Notes. 



merely a fragment perhaps of a crystal several inches in diam- 

 eter. It is of a rich oily green, absolutely transparent and 

 for perfection and transparency equal to anything ever found 

 at the Knappenwand,. Untersultzbachthal, Tyrol. Associated 

 with the apatite was a granular epidote on which were some 

 small dark green crystals of the same mineral. 



5. (Jy anite from North Carolina. 



Mr. D. A. Bowman, of Bakersville, North Carolina, has 

 kindly called my attention to some minerals from Bakersville, 

 one of the most interesting of which is cyaifite in distinct 

 isolated crystals that for perfection, depth of color and trans- 

 parency rival those from St. G-othard, Switzerland. They are 

 found at an altitude of 5500 feet near the summit of Yellow 

 Mountain, on the road to Marion, X. C, four miles southeast 

 of Bakersville. They occur in a vein of white massive quartz 

 in a granitic bluif, associated with almandite garnet of a very 

 light pinkish purple color, but not transparent. The vein has 

 a dip of 60° bearing N".E. and S.W. The color varies from 

 almost colorless to deep azure blue, as dark as the Ceylonese 

 sapphire. Some of the crystals were two inches long while a 

 few were observed 15 mm in width, and 10 mm in thickness. ~No 

 terminal planes were observed. Occurring in white quartz, 

 they form beautiful specimens and the loose crystals were ex- 

 tensively sold for sapphire at Roan Mountain, the tourists' 

 resort. 



6. Aragonite Pseudomorph. 



Among a collection of minerals sent to the Arizona Exhibi- 

 tion at Xew Orleans from Pima County, Arizona, was a crys- 

 tal originally aragonite, which had 

 been almost entirely changed and 

 impregnated by oxide of manganese 

 and red oxide of iron. It has an 

 outer coating of white cacholong over 

 some simple rhombohedral crystals, 

 now entirely changed to an oxide of 

 manganese. The crystal is hollow on 

 top to the depth of three-fourths of 

 an inch. The sides of the cavity are 

 lined with cacholong, but the bottom 

 of the cavity is partly filled in with a 

 white con] pact chalcedony. The fig- 

 ure shows the crystal in natural size. The interior of the 

 crystal is radiated, but is of a dark chocolate color and almost 

 entirely altered to hematite. 



