FOREIGN MIKING REGIONS. 375 



BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



Cariboo District. — Native gold, galena. 



On Frazer River. — Gold, argentiferous tetrahedrite, cerargyrite, 

 cinnabar. 



Ominica District. — Native gold, argentiferous galenite, native 

 silver, silver-amalgam. 



Howe's Sound. — Bornite, molybdenite, mica. 



Texada Id. — Magnetite. 



II. BRIEF NOTICE OF FOREIGN MINING 

 REGIONS. 



The geographical positions of the different mining regions are learned 

 with difficulty from the scattered notices in the course of a minera- 

 logical treatise. A general review of the more important is therefore 

 here given, to be used in connection with a good map. 



A course across Europe, from southeast to northwest, passes over a 

 large part of the mining regions, and it will be found most convenient 

 to the memory to mention them in this order, commencing with the 

 borders of Turkey. 



1. The mines of the Bannat in Southern Hungary, near the borders 

 of Turkey (about latitude 45°), situated principally at Orawitza, Sasz- 

 ka, Dognaszka, and Moldawa : argentiferous copper ores, chalcocite, 

 malachite, copper pyrites, cuprite, galenite, ores of zinc, cobalt, native 

 gold ; yielding silver, gold, copper, and lead ; rock : syenyte, and gran- 

 ular limestone. 



2. The mines of Western Transylvania, about latitude 46°, situated 

 between the rivers Maros and Aranyos, at Nagyag, Offenbanya, Sa- 

 lathna, and Vorospatak : native gold, telluric gold, telluric silver, 

 white tellurium, with galenite, blende, orpiment, realgar, stibnite, tet- 

 rahedrite, rhodochrosite or carbonate of manganese, manganblende ; 

 especially valuable in gold and silver. 



3. In the mountain range, bounding Transylvania on the north, 

 about latitude 47 J 40', at Nagybanya, Felsobanya, and Kapnik : na- 

 tive gold, red silver, argentiferous tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite or pyri- 

 tous copper, blende, realgar, stibnite or gray antimony ; rock : por- 

 phyry. 



4. In the Konigsberg Mountains, Northern Hungary, about latitude 

 48 3 45', at Schemnitz and Kremnitz : argentiferous galenite, and chal- 

 copyrite, native gold, red silver ore, stibnite, some cobalt ores and bis- 

 muth, arsenopyrite or mispickel ; particularly valuable for gold, sil- 

 ver and antimony ; rock : diorite and porphyry. 



5. To the east of the Konigsberg Mountains, at Schmolnitz and Retz- 

 banya : chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, blende, stibnite ; particularly valu- 

 able for copper ; rock : clay slate. 



6. Illyria, west of Hungary, at Bleiberg and Raibel (in Carinthia) : 

 argentiferous galenite, calamine, with some chalcopyrite and other 

 ores, affording silver and zinc abundantly ; rock : mountain limestone. 

 — Also at Idria, native mercury and cinnabar, in argillaceous schist. 



