ais SUPPLEMENT TO DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 
zinc. 3&8. In the west extremity of La Mancha, near latitude 38° 38’, 
at Almaden : cinnabar, native mercury, pyrite, in clay slate. 4. South- 
west of Almaden, in Southern Hstremadura, and Northwestern Seville : 
tetrahedrite ; at Guadalcanal, Cazalla, Rio Tinto: chalcanthite or cop- 
per vitriol, malachite, with some red silver ore, and native silver, in 
schists or limestones. 
There are also mines of lead and copper at Falsete in Catalonia ; in 
Galicia, a little tin ore ; in the Asturias at Cabrales, copper ores. 
23. In Sweden :—1. At Fahlun, in Dalecarlia: chalcopyrite, bornite ; 
yock, syenyte andschists. At Finbo and Broddbo : tantalum ores, tin 
ore. At Sala: argentiferous galenite, affording lead and silver ; rock, 
crystalline limestone. At Vena (or Wehna) and at Tunaberg : arseni- 
cal cobalt, erythrite ; rock, mica slate and gneiss. At Dannemora and 
elsewhere : magnetic iron ore or magnetite. 
24. In Norway, at Kongsberg : argentite or vitreous silver, native 
silver, horn silver, native gold, galenite, native arsenic, blende; rock, 
mica slate. At Modum and Skutterud: cobalt ores, native silver ; 
rock, mica slate. At Arendal, magnetic iron ore. 
25. In Russia:—In the Urals (mostly on the Asiatic side), at 
Ekatherinenberg, Beresof, Nischne Tagilsk, etc.: native gold, plati- - - 
num, iridium, native copper, cuprite, malachite. 2. The Altai 
(Southern Siberia), at Kolyvan and Zmeof : native gold, native silver, 
argentiferous galena, cerussite, native copper, oxides of copper, mala- 
chite, chalcopyrite; rocks, metamorphic ‘eds and porphyry. 3. In the 
Daouria Mountains, east of Lake Baikal, at Nertchinsk : argentifer- 
ous galenite, cerussite, mimetite, gray antimony, arsenopyrite, cala- 
mine, cinnabar ; rocks, compact limestone and schists. 
26. In Australia :—In Southern Queensland, and the northern part 
of New South Wales, or the New England district : tin ore or cassi- 
terite abundant, with also native gold. In New South Wales, along 
the Blue Mountains and the continuation cf the range parallel with 
the coast north and south, in the Bathurst, Mudgee, Lachlan and other 
districts: native gold, chalcopyrite, some cinnabar. In Victoria: na- 
tive gold. In South Australia, especially at the Burra, Wallaroo, and 
Moonta mines : copper ores. 
Other foreign mining regions are the copper mines of Cuba, and 
South America; the silver mines of Chili, Bolivia, Peru in South 
America, and of Mexico; the gold mines of South America, especially 
those of Brazil, South Africa, and of the Philippines, Borneo, New 
Guinea, New Caledonia, and New Zealand in Australasia ; the quick- 
silver mines of Huanea Velica, Peru, and those of China; the tin 
mines of Malacca (principally on the island of Junk-Ceylon), and of 
the island of Banco betwecn Borneo and Sumatra; of zinc, in China; 
of platinum, in Brazil, Colombia, St. Domingo, and Borneo; of palla- 
dium, in Brazil ; of arsenic in Khcordistan, Turkey in Asia, and also in 
China ; of nickel, in New Caledonia. 

