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NATIVE BISMUTH. 451 Geoirnostic Situation. It occurs in veins in gneiss, mica-slate, and clay-slate. It is usually accompanied with ores of cobalt, particular ly tin-white cobalt ore, and grey cobalt-ore; also with copper nickel, bismuth ochre, iron pyrites, sparry iron- ore, and brown blende; sometimes with native silver, and very seldom galena or lead-glance; the vein-stones are quartz, hornstone, calcareous-spar, brown spar, and heavy spar. Geographic Situation. Europe.—It is found at St Columb and Botallack, in Cornwall, but more frequently at Johanngeorgenstadt and Schneeberg, in the Kingdom ot Saxony, than in any place in Fnrope; it occurs also in considerable quantity at Joachimsthal in Bohemia; and in less abundance in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) in Swabia. It has been also met with at Zalathna in Trunsilvunia ; lemeswar in the Bannat; at Biber in Ilanau ; St Saveur, and in the mines of Brittany in France; llulecarlia and N'erike in Sweden ; and Modum in Norway. America.—It occurs ut Huntington, parish of New Stratford, in the State of Connecticut., in a vein of quartz, along with common and magnetic pyrites, and galena or lead glucc *. *' l r scs. * It enters as an ingredient into the composition of types, pewter; is used as solder, in the construction of mirrors, find for the refining of gold and silver; its oxide is used as a white pigment, as an essential ingredient in a kind of salve, which is used for giving a black colour to the Imir, and as an ingredent in sympathetic ink. » 1? Observations. * Bract’s American Mineralogical Journal, p. 2G7.