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along the course of the vein for about 8 chains. Some of the calcite is well 
cleaved, showing rhombohedral planes. On analysis, the calcite from the 
lowest quarry was found to contain 94’1 per cent, carbonate of lime. The 
soil around the lime kiln is of reddish colour. 
On the north side of Mount Saddleback, some calcareous material shows 
in rabbit-burrows. South of the cemetery, 15 chains inside a small reserve, 
is a deposit of tufaceouslime that has been worked to a small extent. A small 
kiln still stands, but the limestone has not been opened out so as to disclose 
its extent. In any case, it is not a large deposit. About 15 chains south¬ 
east of this deposit there are two small openings in tufaceous limestone in 
allotment 262. The soil derived from diabase appears to be fairly rich in 
lime. 
About 5 chains east of the shaft in allotment 165 there is an outcrop of 
green quartz that is 1 chain long and 15 feet wide in one part. 
Mr. Ferguson states that a deposit of barytes occurs near the top of Mount 
Major, but this was not examined. 
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Iron Ore at Mount Major. 
Running in an easterly and westerly direction past the north side of 
Mount Major, is a belt of limonite with an irregular course. This belt 
shows fairly pure limonite in some places for a chain wide, and in parts it 
appears as a solid mass at the surface. 
To test the nature of this deposit, two costeans have been cut across the 
course of the belt from north to south. 
The result has proved that the limonite is more developed at the surface 
than below, and that at a moderate depth it entirely ceases. The beds consist 
of thin bands of cherty-looking rock much jointed, with softer beds between 
that are highly ferruginous, and the limonite has been formed by the replace¬ 
ment of these beds with iron oxide leached out of the very ferruginous beds. 
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No. 1 costean is at the head of the gully, in which a spring occurs, and that 
runs out to the southward of the range. The surface is occupied by large 
blocks of limonite, and in the gully there is an opening among these blocks 
that leads into an irregular cave that terminates at the costean. The sides 
