Fok 
‘ 
gypsum occurs on the Colorado desert, 
and in Baja California. 
LLANIT for T. Allen, 
who discovered it among minerals from 
Eas reenland, ntains the ra 
metals cerium, didymium glucinum, 
lanthanum, and yttrium, together with 
umina, silica, i and i 
e 
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and in 
uthern California. 
ALUM—See kalinite. 
NITE — Associated with 
- .AMBLYGO 
lepidolite in the lithia mines of the 
=; --county- 
- peen reported from the Colorado desert 
eent sulphuric a 
NTONI 
Z: n 
- prismatic forms. olora 
ENTI 
73.6 per cent aside of lead, and 26.4 per 
cid 
tale-like mineral 
shipped to New York and used in the 
manufacture of decorative papers. 
seum of Natural History, writes:— 
- “J find no such name as antonite in 
Dana’s System of Mineralogy, 1592, 6th 
-ed., or in the Atppendix thereto, 1899, OF 
__ in Foote’s Complete Mineral Catalogue, 
The mineral on merely superficial 
1899. 
examination looks to me like some form 
of sericite.”’ 
ARAGONITE—Named for Aragon, 
Spain, identical in composition with 
calcite, but harder and erystalizing in 
do deesrt. ~ 
APATITE—Phosphate of lime h 
‘been reported from the property of the 
San Jacinto tin mining company. 
ASBESTOS—A four-foot vein seven 
i h e 
1 
¥% 
* f 
NGLESITE—Sulphate of lead has a! 
discovered in a copper mine at San An- er 
= 10 The West American Scientist. . 
this coast 
r 
in 1896 enarly 75 
half a million dollars 
The notion of making asphalt artifici- 
,000 tons, worth about 
Nevertheless, this surprising feat has 
been accomplished by Prof W. C. Day. 
ATACAMITE—A native exychloride 
of copper, originally found in the form 
of sand, in the d 
a 
mine near Calmalli, Baja California, 
is identified as this species. 
AZ E—‘Mountain blue’ (blue 
Dr. E. O. Hovey, of the American Mu- 2 6 
cent water. 
BARITE—B 
composed of about 65.7 per cent paryta 
and 34.3 per cent of sulphuric acid. The 
present supply in the United States is 
fornia and in Baja California. 
BOL A rare mineral described 
from the copper mines at Santa Ros- 
alia, Baja California, on the west coast 
the Gulf of California. Occurs in 
° 
ped 
perfect cubes. 
BORAX—Originally obtained from a 
lake in Thibet; composition about 36.6 
cludes marble, 
tufa, etc. The cement roc 
cp pane Na 3 ita ain 
