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carbonates, and grey and yellow sulphide of copper — two speci- 
mens contain gold. 
Cobar. Erom Messrs. Ilardie and Gorman ; beautifully crys- 
tallized specimens of Azurite and Malachite, 
There are many other rich copper ore deposits not represented 
in the present collection, such as those in the Orange, Carcoar, 
Manero, Goulbiirn, Wileannia, and Lower Murrumbidgee Dis- 
tricts. NeverthelesB the above-mentioned localities alone afford 
evidence of the extensive distribution of copper ores in the Pro- 
vince of New South AEales. 
In his Eeport for 1874; Mr. Whittingdale Johnstone, AYarden 
of the Bathurst, Tanibaroora, and Turon Mining District says : 
“ I may here touch upon the mining for minerals other than gold. 
These are all co])per mines, and are scattered over the Bathurst 
District, from AViseman’s Creek, near the upper waters of the 
Macquarie, to the vicinity of Cowra, on the Lachlan Eiver. But 
I am not possessed of that statistical information or description 
in detail with regard to these mines which would enable me to 
report authoritatively upon their extent and productiveness. I 
may state, however, tliat although no great financial success has 
as yet attended the working of these mines, a large quantity ot 
fine copper has been smelted on the spot ; and that the existence 
of a rich belt of cupiferous country, only partially developed, has 
been conclusively proved to exist in the Bathurst Mining district, 
and with the advance of the railway, and the consequent increased 
facility for the carriage of ore and coal to and from the coal 
fields at Bowenfels, must eventually prove a material source of 
national wealth.” 
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The exhibits of tin ore from the Inverell District, New Eng- 
land, I have already alluded to. Those from the Vegetable 
Creek District, collected by Mr. Geo. H. Gower, Mining Eegis- 
trar, are described by him in the following list : 
No. 1. Two specimens. One is iron-stone (gossan), and the 
other is iron, shorl, and percentage of tin, from back of a lode 
found on the Glen Creek, five miles north of Vegetable Creek. 
No. 2. Two specimens of quartz and tin ore, from the Glen 
Creek, five miles north of A^egetable Creek. 
No. 3. Eire (5) specimens of tin ore (shode stones), from the 
Grampian Hills, Strathbogie, a leasehold of 800 acres, the property 
of Messrs. Hall Bros. & Co., and situated G miles south- w'est of 
Vegetable Creek. These shode stones are found in the gullies 
at the Grampian Hills, varying from half-a-pound to lorty pounds 
in weight. This property is a regular net-w^ork of veins of qaurtz 
with tin crystals, from one-sixteenth of an inch to one inch w'ide ; 
also veins of pure tin varying in width from one-sixteenth of an 
