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SOME IRON ORE DEPOSITS IN SOUTH GIPPSLAND. 
By E. J. Dunn, F.G.S., late Directory Geological Survey. 
Alberton West. 
In the parish of Alberton West an extensive quarry has been worked 
in basalt. It covers several acres, and the material was used for ballasting 
the railway. On the cultivated lands around the quarry irregular masses 
of limonite are ploughed up, and on the west side of the quarry larger blocks 
exist (see analysis No. 6). The limonite is evidently derived from the decom¬ 
position of older basalt. No large deposit was seen. Analyses made at the 
Geological Survey Laboratory gave results as follows:— 
Analyses or Iron Ores. 
— 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
Iron (Fe) ... 
27-9 
24-7 
40-7 
109 
17-7 
43-7 
49-2 
Insoluble ... 
— 
— 
7 52 
— 
— 
1593 
6-76 
Phosphorus (P) 
— 
— 
0-21 
— 
— 
017 
0-28 
Sulphur (S) 
—• 
—• 
Nil. 
— 
— 
0 031 
0-091 
Gold, per ton 
trace 
trace 
0-1-7 
trace 
trace 
trace 
trace 
Silver, per ton 
trace 
trace 
0016 
trace 
trace 
traoe 
trace 
1. Limonite, San Remo beach.. 
2. Limonite, Dickie’s Point, 1 mile north of San Remo. 
3. Eerruginous sandstone, Sandstone Island, Western Port Bay. The 
iron occurs as carbonate. 
4. Bog iron ore (limonite), D. Millar’s property, 8 miles north of Inver- 
loch. 
5. Pisolitic limonite, D. Millar’s property, 8 miles north of Inverloch. 
6. Limonite from quarry, Alberton West. 
7. Limonite from \ mile south of Grantville. 
Inverlooh. 
About 8 miles north-easterly from Inverloch, on David Millar’s holding, 
allotment 25, parish of Leongatha, and 10 chains east from the house, there 
is an outcrop of Jbog iron ore that covers several acres of ground on the west 
side of the creek, and just at the foot of the hills (see assay No. 4). There 
is nothing to show the depth of the deposit, nor can the limits be defined 
without trial pits. As the quality is so poor there is no need to prospect 
for the present. 
The origin of this ore is quite obvious, for basalt occurs on the hill where 
the house stands, and also on the ridge to the north of the iron-stone deposit. 
The basalt sheet must have been far more extensive at one time, and as it 
decomposed and weathered away the iron oxide was leached out and was 
redeposited in the flat as bog iron ore. Near the house, and also about 
J mile south of it on the road, limonite (see assay No. 5) of a more compact 
character and better quality occurs as irregular pieces. This has also been 
derived from the older basalt, but there is so little of it that it is of no 
importance. 
San Remo. 
Along the beach to the north of San Remo for about a mile limonite 
occurs between high and low water-mark, usually as irregular pieces of no 
great size. It stretches out towards Churchill Island, and is said to occur 
on the beach there. There is no vein or lode, but the ore is scattered over 
the surface and in some places for a few inches below it. It is evidently 
