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ZINC. 
Blende occurs in the Geraldton District, associated with galena, but not in 
sufficient, quantity to be worth working. Lately a lode lias been found a little to 
the South of Perth, and the samples sent in assayed 75 per cent, of zinc. It also 
occurs with the galena at Cardup. 
MANGANESE. 
Manganese has been found in many places in the Colony, and some of the 
lodes are very good both in size and quality, but none have been worked. 
MICA. 
Very good mica has been found at Bindoon and also on the Blackwood River, 
and in many other places, often of considerable size and splitting well; the 
specimens are frequently much iron-stained, but, now that a use has been found 
for discoloured mica, it will pay very well for working, and it is certain to be far 
less stained, if not quite clear, when quarried below the depth to which it has 
been weathered. 
ASBESTUS. 
Specimens of very fair asbestus have lately been found in several localities. 
KAOLIN. 
{China-clay and Pipe-clay ).—Throughout the Darling Range, and in most of 
the granitic country, large and very pure deposits of kaolin occur, many of which 
are pure enough to be used as whitewash. These deposits will be of great value 
for china-making, when the population increases. 
GRAPHITE. 
Graphite was found in some ferruginous lodes in the Champion Bay District, 
and was tested some years ago, but proved to contain too much iron to be of any 
commercial value. 
Some fair deposits also occur between the Warren and the Blackwood Rivers, 
in the South-West, where several claims have been taken up, though as yet very 
little work has been done. 
Some years ago a deposit of graphite was worked at Kendenup, and the 
samples sent away were stated to be of very fair quality, but, owing to the 
distance from a port, the mine was abandoned. Now that the railway passes so 
close another attempt should be made to utilise this deposit, and would most 
likely meet with success. 
