On the Occurrence of Greenockite at a New Locality

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More than a year ago I obtained a number of minerals in Boylestone quarry, which lies about a quarter of a mile north-west of Barrhead, near Glasgow.

Upon breaking up at home the very unwieldly druses which alone seem to occur at this locality, I found one which contained Greenockite.

A single bright yellow crystal only occurs, and it lies so deep in the specimen, between two mammillations of prehnite, that its form cannot be deciphered.

I was induced by the urgent solicitations of a local collector, to whom I mentioned the find, to refrain for a time from announcing it. His argument was that the mineral collectors of the neighbourhood should have the earliest chance of being supplied.

As I have myself fruitlessly visited the quarry since, and as even the occurrence of the ordinary zeolites is only very occasional therein, I conclude that time must elapse before more crystals are turned out.