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Appendix. 
A. Dr. J. Ilaast gives the following list of ores and minerals 
occurring in the Province of Canterbury. 
Mineral Coal: 
a) Carboniferous Anthracitic and bituminous coal, River Kowai, Mount 
Harper, Clent Hills, etc. 
b) Secondary coal, bituminous, River Grey, West Coast. 
c) Tertiary brown coal and lignite in tertiary formations, all over the 
Province, Malvern Hills, Mount Somers, Rakaia, Coal Creek, Rangi- 
tata, Northern Hinds, River Potts, Ashburton, Tenawai, etc. 
Selenite, in crystals on the surface of tertiary shale, Tenawai, etc. 
Calcite (calcareous spar) in cavities of volcanic and in veins of sedi- 
mentary and mctamorphic rocks, abundant all over the Province. 
Travertine , deposited from water having carbonate of lime in solution, 
Weka Pass. 
Marble , Malvern Hills. 
Stalactite , ) „ , T , n 
y caves of Mount Somers, etc. 
Stalagmite , ) 
Arragonite, lining fissures and cavities of volcanic rocks, Banks' Peninsula. 
Dolomite (Magnesian limestone), Malvern Hills, interstratified with augi- 
tic greenstone. 
Quartz , in veins, in mctamorphic and palaeozoic rocks, all over the 
Province. This mineral occurs also in the following varieties: — 
Rock Crystal , ) in amygdaloidal trap lining, geodes, and cavities, 
Amethist , \ Malvern Hills, Mount Somers, etc. 
Milky Quartz , in granites, West Coast. 
Prase , small deposits in quartzose porphyritic trachyte, Gawler’s Downs. 
Chalcedony , in mammillary and botryoidal forms in amygdaloidal trap 
and quartzose trachytes, Malvern Hills, Clent Hills, Mount Somers, etc. 
Chrysoprase, filling cavities, ditto, ditto. 
Camel-ion , in small geodes and filling cavities, ditto, ditto. 
Agate, in geodes, often of very large size, ditto, ditto. 
Flint, filling cavities in the rocks, ditto, ditto, 
Avent urine, ditto, ditto. 
Onyx . Some horizontally arranged chalcedonies in different colours 
show a tendency to become onyx and sardonyx, ditto, ditto. 
Plasma, filling fissures in tertiary quartzose trachytes, and occurring 
principally in Gawler’s Downs. 
