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On some New South Wales Minerals. 
By A. Liversiper, F.R.S., Professor of ie and 
Mineralogy in the University of Syd 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 2 July, 1884.] 
THE specimens forming the subject of the following notes were 
exhibited and described at the July meeting of the Society, 1884. 
Native Goip 
Is found in association with antimonite at rie —o of 
Sandon, New England. In some cases the antim s as 
the matrix of the gold, but in most of the eins a wlan mvs 
come under my notice the gold is held by quartz, intimately mixed 
with the antimonite. This association of gold and antimonite is 
extremely rare, not only in New South Wales but elsewhere. 
At the new Reform Gold Mining wim ead Lucknow, native gold 
occurs with native arsenic in calcite 
CRYSTALLIZED GOLD. 
A beautiful group . P pte crystals is to be seen in the Museum 
of Science and Art at Edinburgh—perha ~ one of the finest 
in existence. The soda of this rare and very valuable nugget, 
now on the table, has been a made for me by Professor 
Archer, the Director of the Museu 
As will be seen from the aoiecasn (plates 1 and 2), the 
crystals are for the most part imperfect octohedra and elongated 
Professor hstauy was under the impression see ret specimen 
came from New South Wales, but the exact locality is no longer 
k 
It is much to be semtetiid: that more of such specimens Lari not 
been preserved. At the present day they are extremely scarce, 
and “aha in the early = of the gold discoveries they were never 
