90 VICTORIAN MINERALS.—CASE XV. 
CARBONACEOUS MINERALS, 
37a. LignitE (Brown Coal). 37B. Lienire (Brown Coal). 
City of Manchester Claim, Dur- | | Lal-Lal. 
ham Lead. sheet 63 S.E. Occurs in extensive deposits in the 
With crystals of efflorescent sulphate Miocene formation. 
of iron, from the auriferous drift, 260 
feet below the surface. 
This deposit of lignite is nearly 120 feet in thickness. It consists 
of an irregular mixture of brown or brownish-black, earthy, bituminous 
coal, real “brown coal,” with “lignite,” że., portions, composed of 
branches, trunks and stumps of trees (“ Conifers”). Occasionally, thin 
and rather shattered seams of jet are met with ; also narrow, lenticular 
patches and small roundish pieces of two kinds of resin, Only a few 
narrow clay seams intersect this enormous mass of lignite; and iron 
pyrites is, so far as examination goes, very sparingly distributed. The 
following analyses are by the late Mr. C. Wood :— 
1. 2, 3. 4. 5. 
Fixed carbon... ce PAE a CY eos DU oo er SEHN 
Volatile matter ... Aa kiiri "occ OD Leste 20 Guten) PR rin 
Hygroscopic water ... 487 ... 487 ... 487 ... 400 ... 400 
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- 38. Recent BitumnousDeposir. | 89. ASPHALT. d 
From the Grampians. Coal Creek, Cape Patterson, 
Found coating the bottoms of caves, Presented by N. Levi, Esq., M.L.A. 
being, according to an analysis by i 
Mr. J. C. Newbery, a nitrogenous body, | 40. COPALINE. (?) 
and probably the result of a peculiar y 
decomposition of animal excrement and Cape Patterson. 
other matter. Presented by N. Levi, Esq., M.L.A. 
Note.—Specimens 39 and 40 were not found in place, but were 
picked up in the bed of the creek, 
41, CopaLine. (?) 42, Copatine (?) in Lignite. 
Lignite bed, Bass River. Bass River. 

