Mines and Mineral Statistics. 
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coid. The lower half of the crystal had been fractured ; it was of 
a red colour, but possessed a purple-coloured central mass. The 
fragments of sapphire are far less in size than those found at 
Mudgee and in New England, and far less rolled ; the major 
part often appears to have undergone no rounding at all — thus 
presenting a broad distinction between the gem sand from the two 
places. A little corundum is found. 
4. Topaz, as rounded fragments, and sometimes with rough 
crystalline outline. Tijey are generally of a dull yellowish colour, 
colourless and transparent, small in size, and often apparently 
freely fractured. 
5. Garnet, in small, rough-loohing ill-formed crystals, of a dull 
red colour. 
6. Spinelle: — Not very common, generally in small red or pink- 
ish fragments. 
7. Quartz ; — Small prisms, capped with the pyramid, more or 
less rolled, transparent, and of a pale dirty red, also smoky ; also 
small jasper pebbles, <tc., &c. Amongst the jasper pebbles are 
some of pale mottled tints of yellow, pink, drab, brown, bluish 
grey, <fec. j these are termed '‘morlops” by the minei’S, and are 
regarded by them with much favor, as they say they never find 
one of them in the dish without diamonds accompanying it. Their 
average specific gravity, taken from a lai'ge number, is d‘25. As 
this is nearly the sanie as that of the diamond, we can readily 
understand their being found together. Many must be lost in 
the washing processes. They are oval in form, smooth, and 
rarely exceed a quarter-incli in length. The miners can give no 
origin for the name, and it does not appear to be mentioned in 
any works on mineralogy, &c. 
8. Broolcite : — Small'llat fragments— very rare. 
9, Titaniferoiis iron : — Eatlier common. 
10. Marjnetic iron ore, in small grains, showing an octahedral 
form under the microscope, coated with hidrated sesquioxide of 
iron, easily removed by the magnet. Gold in small particles was 
often found attached to the grains of magnetite. 
11. Wood tin .—Rare ; in small rolled particles. 
12. Gold: — Pine grains and scales, present but in small quan- 
tity, and the greater portion attached to the magnetite ; hence 
the magnet was found the most ready means of removing it. 
13. Os7niridium : — In small brittle plates ; rare. 
14. The Diamond already stated, they arc for the most 
part small in size. Some are clear, colourless, and transparent, 
while others have a pale straw-yellow tint. One or two dark ones, 
very small, have been seen ; also a greenish one. The sp. gr., as 
deduced from nineteen specimens, is 3 '42 (the Mudgee being 
3-44). 
