Localities.—Found in mining districts, often with lead, copper and iron ores, and in limestone. Piermont, N. H.; Hatfield, Southampton and Leverett, Mass.; Cheshire and Berlin, Conn.; Pillar Point, Rossie, Carlisle, Scoharie, De Kalb, Gouverneur, N. Y.; Fauquier and Buckingham Counties, Va.; Union, Gaston and Orange Counties, N. C.; near Paris, and in Anderson, Fayette, Mercer and Owen Counties, Ky.; on Brown’s Creek and Haysboro, Tenn.; Bainbridge, O.; Scales Mound, Ill.; Prince Vein, Lake Superior; Mine-a-Barton, Mo.; near Fort Wallace, N. M.; Ingo County, Cal.
10.—Bituminous Coal.
Occurs in masses, beds or seams; softer and duller than Anthracite; often a bright pitchy lustre; brittle, showing a slaty or jointed structure rather than curved surface; powder black; burns readily with yellow flame; by roasting forms coke; gravity 1.5 or less.
Value.—Used for fuel and the production of gas, coke, carbolic acid and aniline.
Localities.—Found west of Harrisburg, Pa., in rocks (slates and sandstones) less disturbed than in the Anthracite region. Western Pennsylvania; South-east Ohio; West Virginia; Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee to Tuscaloosa; North-west Kentucky; Illinois; Iowa; Missouri; Kansas; Arkansas; Northern Texas; Central Michigan; Owyhee County, Idaho; Deer Lodge and Gallatin Counties and sixty miles north-east of Bannock, Mont.
11.—Blende.
Occurs in crystals and masses; waxy lustre, but not always very apparent; usual color, rosin-yellow to dark brown; brittle; the powder, which is whitish to reddish-brown, dissolves in muriatic acid giving off the odor of rotten eggs; by roasting gives off sulphur-fumes; infusible alone, but on charcoal at a high heat gives off white fumes; gravity 4.
Value.—An ore of zinc (containing sixty-six per cent.) and a source of white vitriol. Often worked for its Silver and Gold.
Localities.—Found with lead and other ores. Lubec and Bingham, Me.; Eaton, Warren and Shelburne, N. H.; Sterling, Southampton and Hatfield, Mass.; Brookfield, Berlin, Roxbury and Monroe, Conn.; near Wurtzboro’, Cooper’s Falls, Mineral Point, Fowler, Ancram, Clinton and Spraker’s Basin, N. Y.; Wheatley and Perkiomen lead-mines, Schuylkill, Shannonville and Friedensville, Pa.; Austin’s lead-mine, Va.; Haysboro’, Brown’s Creek and Polk Counties, Tenn.; Prince Vein, Mich.; Dubuque, Ia.; Warsaw, Rosiclare and Galena, Ill.; Shullsburg, Wis.; Stillwater, Minn.