Notes on a mineral substance new to Tasmania

During a recent visit to the Zeehan silver-field my attention was drawn to a peculiarly coloured and unusual form of pyrites occurring in one of the silver-lead lodes on the property of the Silver Queen Prospecting Association. It is found in some quantity, both massive and disseminated, closely associated with various other forms of pyrites and richly argentiferous galena in a portion of this particular lode, locally known as "Clarke's Tribute." The mineral is commonly known as " tin prites," or "bell-metal ore," and is almost peculiar to the stanniferous districts of Cornwall, England, being only rarely found out of its original locality. It has been reported to occur in Bohemia, at Zinnwald, in the Erzgebirge, with blende and galena. In Australia it is reported to occur in extremely limited quantity in the tin districts of New South Wales and Northern Queensland.