VICTORIAN MINERALS.—CASE XIII. 73 
59, A, B, ©, and D. FLosFERRI 
(Carbonate of Lime and Iron).. 
Richmond Quarries. } sheet 1 
S.E. 
Occurs in fine needles and small, di- 
vergent, yellow, silky brushes, lining 
cavities in the basalt. : 
60. SPHŒROSIDERITE (Carbonate 
of Iron). Map No. R. 10. 
From a Quarry half a mile south 
of the National School, Essendon. 
Occurs in basalt. 
6l. Sparuic Iron (Carbonate of 
Tron). 
Corinella. és 
Nodule from the shaft of the Cori- 
nella Goal Company, containing 70 per 
cent. of carbonate of iron. 
62. PHARMOCOSIDERITE (Arse- 
niate of Iron). 
Port Phillip Company’s Mine, 
Clunes. . 
Occurs as drusy coatings of brownish- 
red, sub-transparent cubes on black 
manganese ore. The larger crystals 
show, like rhombohedrons of ‘brownspar, 
a peculiar curvature of the faces, as re- 
corded of the sub-species of cube-ore 
“Beudantite.” On the smaller crystals, 
however, this feature is absent, and it 
would therefore appear to be a character, 
incident on the growth of the crystals 
beyond a certain size. Some of the 
smaller crystals also show hemihedral 
planes of the octahedron. | Before the 
blow-pipe this cube-ore gives & small 
trace of manganese. It probably results 
from the decomposition of arsenical 
pyrites. 
63. ScornopiTE (Arseniate of 
Iron). 
Poverty Reef, Dunolly. 
Occurs with gold in quartz as leek- 
green crystals, with an earthy or ochre- 
ous variety of arseniate of iron. It is 
always associated with arsenical py rites. 
of 
64. ScoroprTE (Arseniate of - 
Iron). 
Blucher’s Reef, Maryborough. 
Presented by G. H. F. Ulrich, Esq. 

65. ScoroDITE (Arseniate of 
Iron). 
Blucher’s Reef, Maryborough. 
66. ViviANITE (Phosphate of 
Iron). 
Nicholson River, near Bairnsdale, 
Gippsland, 
Occurs in a yellow Silurian sandstone, 
as crystals and veins composed of thin, 
flexible, prismatic and translucent 
plates of various shades of blue, and 
often coated by mammillated brown 
carbonate of iron (spharosiderite), 
Presented by William Jahn, Esq. 
67. Brun Inon-Earru (Earthy 
Vivianite—Phosphate of Iron). 
Phillip Island, Western Port Bay. 
Occurs in nodular, earthy masses-of 
a pale smalt-blue color in the older 
basalt, especially in places, where recent 
guano deposits exist on the surface ; 
its origin, in this instance, being most 
probably due to the water, percolating 
through the guano, becoming charged 
with phosphate of ammonia and acting 
on the iron of the decomposed basalt. 
67A. VIVIANITE (in part—Phos- 
phate of Iron). 
Bruthen Creek, near Port Albert, 
Gippsland. 
Occurs in the older basalt with iron-- 
stone. It was mistaken for copper-ore, 
The matrix, in which it occurs, contains 
40 per cent. of iron. 
68. BLUE Iron-Eartu (Earthy 
Vivianite—Phosphate of Iron). 
Ballarat. 
Occurs in thin veins of a pale smalt- 
blue color, in finely laminated, soft, light- 
brown shales or mudstones, 
69. CorpEeras (Sulphate of Iron). 
City of Manchester Claim, Dur- 
ham Lead, Leiyh River. 
Occurs as an efflorescence (after ex- 
posure), on lignite, obtained 260 feet from 
the surface. 
70, Corarire (Basic Sulphate of Iron). 
Spring Creek, near Geelong. 
This mineral, doubtless a product of the decomposition of iron 
pyvites, is disseminated through certain beds of the Upper Miocene 
