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THE GEOLOGICAL OCCUERENCE OF ANTIMONY ORES. 53<br />
tions, which have transformed the alberese (a variety of Eocene calcareous<br />
rock found in Tuscany) in part to gypsum and anhydrite.<br />
It is not quite certain whether the <strong>antimony</strong> deposit has any genetic<br />
relation with the sulphurous vapour. (Probably C.)<br />
At San Martino, Tuscany, cinnabar is found accompanying the<br />
stibnite.<br />
At Monte Auto there is a peculiar occurrence of <strong>antimony</strong> ore,<br />
which is found in great blocks distributed in a black clay containing<br />
no other kind of rock except occasionally masses of dolomite, impregnated<br />
with stibnite. (D.)<br />
At Siena, the Cettine di Cotorniano mine is opened in a vein of<br />
blackish quartz-like rock, in which, near the surface, oxide of <strong>antimony</strong><br />
is found, changing, however, to the sulphide at some depth. (A.)<br />
At Rosia, the stibnite is accompanied partly by calcite and partly<br />
by quartz.<br />
At Su Suergin, in Sardinia, the deposits occur at the contact of<br />
the Ehsetic limestone with Permian slate. Antimony glance, accompanied<br />
by pyrites, is also found in the mica schist. Traverso gave the<br />
opinion that these deposits are of sedimentary origin rather than of<br />
vein formation. (E.)<br />
ENGLAND.<br />
Antimony ore is found very sparingly in Cornwall.<br />
SPAIN.<br />
Veinlets of quartz, carrying stibnite, occur generally in a belt of<br />
metamorphic schists and shales, their strikes being between W. 10° S.<br />
E. 10° N. and S. W.-N.E. The shale, for a breadth of about three feet,<br />
seems to be mineralised by veinlets of quartz with stibnite, by<br />
pockets and impregnations of that mineral, whose walls are generally<br />
not well denned. (A and C.)<br />
Near Viuvela, in Malaga, native <strong>antimony</strong> is found to be impreg<br />
nated in the clayey shales, the size of the impregnated masses vary<br />
ing from that of an egg down to minute spangles.<br />
Other localities that may be mentioned are Estremadura and<br />
Badajoz, Caurel, Brollou, Orense.<br />
PORTUGAL.<br />
In the district of Evora, <strong>antimony</strong> ore occurs in quartz lodes at the<br />
contact of Palaeozoic beds and granite. (A.)