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56 THE METALLURGY OF ANTIMONY.<br />
CHINA.*<br />
From private information received by the author, the ore seems<br />
to occur in veins of quartz. The low-grade ore carries more or less<br />
gold and silver. (A and B.) The principal localities are Nanning,<br />
Ssucheng, Taiping, and Hsilin districts, in Hunan province.<br />
JAPAN.<br />
According to K. Yamada, stibnite veins are found in the island of<br />
Shikoku. They are, as a rule, thin, and occur in schists and other<br />
palaeozoic rocks. The gangue is generally composed of quartz, and<br />
sometimes of quartz and pyrite. (A.)<br />
At Itshinokawa, the veins occur in sericite schist, having as gangue<br />
materials quartz and a little calc-spar, banded with druses which<br />
contain very large beautiful crystals. (A.) At the Nakase mine,<br />
the stibnite is gold-bearing. (B.)<br />
At Kano, in the southernmost part of the Hondo peninsula,<br />
tho veins are 2 to 9 feet in width, and continue for a distance of<br />
6000 feet, cutting through the crystalline schist mountains. (A.)<br />
At Totsugawa, south of Kioto, the vein cuts through a quartzitio<br />
and graphitic schist. (A.)<br />
The remaining localities are Nara, Ehrme, Yamaguchi.<br />
BORNEO.<br />
In the northern part of Borneo (Sarawak) the <strong>antimony</strong> ore, sometimes<br />
accompanied by pure arsenic and arsenic sulphide, occurs in<br />
quartz veins, cutting through the limestone and the slate formations.<br />
COOHIN-CHINA.<br />
Stibnite has been found between Quan-Yuen and Moucai in Tonkin.<br />
It has also been found in rounded stones or boulders of varying size,<br />
which have a peculiarly smooth yellowish-brown surface, accumulated<br />
in the beds of torrents.<br />
ASIA MINOR.<br />
Stibnite, with quartz as gangue, is found in the vicinity of<br />
Smyrna.<br />
*The author w ill soon make a geological excursion in the province of Hunan.