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COPPER.. spar, quartz, garnet, aetynolite, hornblende, tremolite &c. ’ Geographic Situation. Luropc.—In veins that traverse a great bed of quartz In the Clifton mine, near Tyndrum in Perthshire; in these veins, it is associated with copper green, red cobalt- ochre, galena or lead-glance, brow n and yellow blende, quartz, and heavy-spar: in a vein in red sandstone in the Mainland, the largest of the Zetland Islands, where it is accompanied with grey copper-ore, malachite, native copper, iron-pvrites, sparry ironstone, and brown iron stone : at the mines of Ecton, on the borders of Derby shire and Staffordshire, it is contained in flcetz limestone, and is accompanied with galena or lead-glance, blende, calcareous-spar, fluor-spar, and heavy-spar: at Pary's Mountain in Anglesea, it occurs in a bed of great thick ness, associated with native copper, malachite, azure copper-ore, galena or lead-glance, and calamine : in se veral places in Derbyshire : abundantly in the copper- mines of Cornwall, along with copper-glance, grey cop- per-ore, and red copper-ore. There are considerable copper-mines at Cronebane and Ballymurtach, in the county of Wicklow in Ireland, and the principal ore is copper-pyrites. This ore is met with in considerable abundance on the Continent of Europe, but the localities are so numerous, that we cannot spare room but for a few of them. It occurs in the mines of Rorras and Arendal in Norway ; in that of Fahlun in Sweden ; in the Ilartz; the Saxon Erzgebirge; Ilessia, Bohemia, Franconia, Suabia, Bavaria, Silesia, Austria, Hungary, Spain, France, and Russia. Asia.—Siberia; and Japan. Amcricn