THE NORTHERN DISTRICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 77 
At Never Never, 15 miles north from Tamworth, in large 
masses of ind — agglutinated together, forming schorl 
breccia, blac 
Near / a y (Uralla, N.E.) in amorphous masses, often 
exceeding 20 Ibs. in weight, black, opaque. 
Topaz. 
At Oban (N.E.) in stanniferous drifts, with gold, quartz, feld- 
ar, and tourmaline; colour, greenish, yellowish, bluish, pale, 
also colourless ; generally in irregularly broken fragments, but 
good crystals are not uncommon. risms generally with one 
perfect termination. A prism with perfect termination from this 
locality “was 13 geen in length, 4} inches in circumference, and 
weighed 3°87 O78. troy. Its sp. g. was 3°57. Another specimen 
from the same locality weighed 3-90 oz. troy, and had a sp. g. of 
3° 
At Serubby ~— y (Emmaville, N.E.), with cedensienninss in rolled 
fragments much rounded and smoothed, } to 1 inch in diameter ; 
colour, pale, gree ish, yellowish, colour. Jess. 
At Rocky Bite (Uralla, N.E.), with gold, spinels and titanic 
iron sand. 
At the Gulf, near Emmaville (N.E. ), erystals of topaz 4 inch in 
length have been observed i situ in cavities in cassiterite. 
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Termination of prism. Side of prism. 
Prism of topaz (No. 1), from Oban (N.E. 
CorUNDUM. 
In Furracabad Creek (Glen Innes, N.E.), rough pieces up to 60 
grs. in weight, common ; colours, blue e, brown, mostly opaque. 
Si 
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garnet ; colours mostly blue, al or grey. Good stones as 
s size, tint and freedom from fla 
a are often met with, but are invariably small, flawed, or of 
col 
At Glen Elgin, 30 miles east from Glen Innes, _ amethyst, 
gold, and tin ore ; colours principally green or Ah green, 
transparent, sem: ieee nt. Prisms, with one perfect termi 
tion, are sometimes — and do not appear to have travelled 
- far, as the angles in most instances clean 
sharp. 
