ABSTRACT 



OF 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION, 



Monthly Meeting, Llpth May, 1919. 



Mr. R, H. Oambage in the Chair. 



Six members were present. 



Mr. J. E. Carne and Dr. O. Anderson were re-elected 

 Chairman and Honorary Secretary respectively. 



exhibits : 



1. From the Mining Museum:— Graphic granite, Japan; 

 schist with indications of bedding, Euriowie; glacial till of 

 Cambrian Age, Poolamacca; molybdenite crystals, Bow 

 Creek, Deepwater; opal showing faulting, Mount Stuart 

 Range, S. Australia; the mica vein showing gold, Amalga- 

 mated Tunnel, Hill End; pyromorphite crystals from the 

 Cobar Gold Mine, Cobar, the White Flag Mine, Binalong, 

 and Block 14 Mine, Broken Hill; slickensided pyrites, 

 White Crystal Mine, Ardlethau; kaolin coloured by chro- 

 mium (miioschite), Westonia, W.A.; chrysocolla, Block 14 

 Mine, Broken Hill; rhodochrosite with outer zone of 

 manganese-zinc carbonate (zinc content appears to increase 

 progressively outwards), Central Mine, Broken Hill; jaro- 

 site in graphite, Northampton, W.A. 



2. Australian Museum: — Anatase crystals, Wild Kate 

 Mine, Torrington; staurolite crystals, Cloncurry, Queens- 

 land; needle tin, Long Gully, nearTingha; crocoite crystals 

 Dundas, Tasmania; native copper in selenite, Mount Elliott 

 Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland; molybdenite vein in trap 

 rock, Deepwater District. 



