Arizona weekly miner., 1876-06-30

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 CABINET OF RARE MINERALs.-Last weel
 we visited the assay office of Jay c
 Kelley and examined his cabinet of minerals
 fossils, and marine specimens. The cabine
 is open to the inspection of the public and W,
 would advise miners who visit the town tc
 call and get posted on the different varieties
 The following is list of the specimens ex
 hibited:
 Silver ores, ruby silver, stephanite silver
 glance, wire silver, leaf silver silver sui.
 phurets, polybasite chloride of silver, horn
 silver, silver matte, brittle silver ore, bro.
 mide of silver, enargite-a beautiful and rare mineral from Russia-red antimorial silver ore, gold with iron pyrites, gold with copper pyrites, native leaf gold, telliride of gold this latter is very valuable, the tellurium forming one of the parts being more valu- able than gold-cinnibarf from new Almaden, Cal, float nugget of cinnibar, from Beaver creek, Oregon, and selenide of mercury. a very rare mineral, pyrites of copper, peacock copper, carbonate of copper, malacbite and azuElte, .anuriate of copper, black oxide of copper, native copper, vitreous copper ore, gray copper ore or tetrahedite, red oxide of copper, tenorite or black copper, chrysocolIa or silicate of copper, velvet copper ore tin sulphurets, oxyd of tin, stream tin, wood tin, molybdenite or sulphide of molybdenum, rom ,Arendal, Norway, native bismuth, sul- pnurets of bismuth, native antimvny, sul- phurct of antimony, red antimony, native ar- senic from Siberia, white arsenic, Russia sulphuret of arsenic both red and yellow from Washington Territory, realgar and orpi- mert' bisulphuret of iron mispickel, mag netic iron, specular iron, micaceous iron, red, hematite, brown hematite, bog iron, chro- mic iron, columbite iron, chrysolite, chloro- pal, carbonate, or spathic iron, arsenate of iron, dialloSite or carbonate of manganese virgin nickel, arsenical nickel, zinc blende, red oxyd of zinc, calamine or silicate of zinc. gaiena, mipium, anglesite, cerusite or carbon ate or lead, chromate of lead, native pla- tinum steatite, amber cale spar, wavelIites dendritic cinnibar, anthracite coal, bitumin. ous coal, camel coal, Ignite, jet from Syria, sandstone or bituminous coal formation. grossuiar garnet, mountain leather, molyb- aate Of lelfi mica, section of mica crystal. several varieties of coral, gypsum, fiuor spar. arrogonite, meteorites, phillipsite, double re- iracting spar, sulphate of soda, obsidian, am ethyst, topaz, garnets, opal, emerald, agates. moss sgates, amethyst quartz, tourmaline, rock soap, sadronyx, zeolites, native sulphus. precious surpertine, Mt. Hood lava. varie- gated jasper, tincal, carbonate of magnesia. sulphur ed baryta, graphite, compact lime stone, caloite nail head spar, cats eve agate. 1 fortification agate, marmolite, carbonate of l strontium, serpentine, siliciified wood, petri- | fled wood, fsldspar, lava from Mt. Kilaneo. 1 Sandwich Island, lithomarge, bronzite | lime, epitlote actinolite magnesite, iolite. | hypersthene granite, gneiss, garnets in quart. zite, tripoli or infusorial earth, carbonate of lime, dolomite, flint, cryolite, geocronite pipe iron ore, ehalcedony rose quartz, satin spar and many rare fossils among which we mo- ticed, petrified clans and quohaugs, a petri- | fled eel, fern and maple leaf impressions, trii- obites, atrypa reticularis, :eyathophullum. and many others with almost un- | names. In the collection are also sevefxl-beAutiful corals and many shells, slso the wood, bark and cones of some of the trees of Calaveras county, Cal, also several large barnacles taken from a whales back. Sea eggs and sea urchins, lime deposit showing the work of the teredo ssriiis, etc, etc, but want of space forbids urther remarks at present. |