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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 70

New Guinea

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New Guinea.

The Colonial Museum also contains specimens of the very dark greenstone of which there are several fine specimens in the Technological Museum in Melbourne. I am unable to say whether it is an allied stone.

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Localities. Sp. Gr. Silica. Alumina. Iron-protoxide Maganese-protoxide. Magnesia. Lime. Potash. Soda. Water. Oxide of Zinc. Total. Rammelsberg—China Damour—China New Zealand Fell— Swiss lake-habitations Fell— Swiss lake-dwellings Damour— *China Kastner— China Melchior and Meyer—New Zeland (tangiwai) Smith and Brush— † Smithfield, North America 2.96 2.97 2.97 3.32 3.32 3.32 2.61 2.61 2.594 to 2.757 54.68 58.94 58.8 58.46 58.02 57.28 57.10 56.83 56.14 58.89 59.17 50.50 53.01 55.01 42.29 1.32 1.56 0.68 0.72 0.48 22.40 22.58 10.00 10.86 13.66 Trace Nephrite (Jade). 21.15 2.43 2.53 1.15 1.12 1.37 3.39 6.70 4.66 Jadeite (Jade, Nephrite). 1.66 1.56 Iron-sesquioxide. 5.50 7.18 3.58 Bowenite (Nephrite). FeO 01.21 1.39 0.82 0.80 0.58 1.13 26.01 22.42 22.39 27.09 27.19 25.91 23.29 20.35 22.68 1.28 1.15 31.00 14.50 21.62 42.29 16.06 12.28 12.15 12.06 11.82 12.39 13.48 13.02 11.12 3.12 2.68 12.40 0.63 0.80 0.80 0.49 Trace 0.97 1.42 12.86 12.93 0.68 0.25 0.27 2.55 2.50 3.18 3.72 0.20 2.75 1.11 5.64 12.96 100.97 99.23 99.74 98.76 98.15 100.18 100.48 100.66 99.93 101.03 100.07 100.00 100.27 99.38 *This stone is highly prized by the Chinese, and called "teitsui." The greenstone called" chalchihuiti" by the old Mexicans is supposed to be the same as the "teitsui" of the Chinese. † This is a true serpentine.

Analyses of Greenstone.

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