76 NOTES ON SOME MINERAL LOCALITIES IN 
At Puddledock, near Armidale, in radiated masses with stilbite. 
At Hanging Rock, Nundle, half a mile south from Mr. Prisk’s 
hotel, near Public School; in pyramids massed together and 
covering chalcedony. 
In a" Creek (N.E.), at lower crossing, in rounded polished 
fragments, with stream tin ore. 
At Boake (N.E.), in drifts with tin ore, rounded portions of 
prisms common. Sometimes 5 inches in diameter, exterior 
rough ; colours, black, ahaha, colourless. Crystals coloured in 
part, le or black, ¢ 
At the Gulf, near Marci vile (N.E.), in the “ Dutchman’s” 
claim oe drusy cavities in quartz, and felspathic granite veins. 
Crystals large, transparent ; often tapering from base to summit 
of prism. Splendid specimens for cabinet purposes are to be 
a at this locality. 
are a great number of New England localities, not herein 
shatiionied, in which good specimens are occasionally obtained He | 
TOURMALINE. 
At Oban, in alluvial drifts, with gold and crystals of topaz, 
feldspar, and tin ore; colour, black, opaque; often attached 
by 2 inches in length, and weighed 9} oz. Some of the specimens 
from this locality are hexagonal, but mostly hemihedral. Both 
$ of prism are found terminating in three-faced pyramids. 
ear Bendemeer, 7 miles down the M‘Donald ‘River, with 
muscovite in milky quartz, prisms } to 4 inch thick, hemihedral, 
black opaque. 
At Black Jack Mountain (Mt. Gulligal), near Bendemeer, in 
pant vein with orthoclase, in hemihedral prisms ; colour, black, 
opaq A specimen from this locality measured 2 inches in 
length ‘(broken prism), I. inches in circumference, and weighed 
147 ozs. ; another from the same locality, 4 inches lon 
inches in meee ied weighed 14? ozs. The last-mentioned 
oat was penetrated by two smaller prisms of the same 
Near Bingera, in disintegrated conglomerate drift, with diamond, 
corundum, and gold, much worn, highly polished ; in shape some- 
bas a. date-stones; black, opaque, ‘form of prism 
At Balaia, near Uralla (N, - 1 hite 
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