ADELAIDE.

Colonist, Issue 133, 28 January 1859, Page 3

ADELAIDE.

Indications of another, Burra Burra Mine. —Information had reached town by the Marion, calculated to excite sanguine hope that a valuable addition is about being made to the mineral resources of South Australia. This new prospective source of wealth consists of a recently discovered deposit of those mineral treasures for which the colony has already earned a large portion of its reputation, and from which so much of its material wealth has been derived. The site of the discovery is said to be about 150 miles from Port Augusta, and somewhat to the eastward of Mr. Stuart's track to his new country, but in sufficient proximity to the course followed by tbe gallant explorer to render it almost easier to open up a passage through it to the valuable tract of territory whicli Mr. Stuart has added to the available lands of the province. Fortunately this important information vests, not upon mere verbal testimony, bufc is conclusively corroborated by the arrival of a large quantity of specimens ofthe copper ore in its various native features. The specimens were exhibited yesterday by Mr. Finke, hvCurriestreet, where they attracted numbers of curious visitors, eager to inspect the treasures so fortunately revealed to us. Some of the cognoscenti, of whom, as might be supposed, not a few took advantage of the opportunity of examining the ore, pronounce it to be of the finest quality. The subjoined list of the specimens now on exhibition at Mr. Finke's may be relied upon as accurate, and will no doubt convince the initiated in mineralogical kno vvledge that there is every reasonable prospect of our adding within a very short period a most valuable item to the mineral resources of South Australia: —Specimens exhibited December 21.—Blue carbonates of copper, crystallised. Green carbonates of copper, crystallised. Grey sulphuret of copper. Copper pyrites, or yellow ore coated black. Black oxide of copper. Malachite. Red oxide of copper. Red oxide of copper encrusted with green carbonates. Iron oxide, with veins of red oxide of copper, called black band. Silver lead ore. A new mineral, consisting of copper, 20 per cent.; lead, 20 per cent.; antimony, 28 per cent. Surface ores from other places not yet particularly examined.— S. A. Advertiser.