COPPER MOUNTAIN CAVE, 2nd

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

The second of the two relatively small and apparently natural caves (note 1), which had been known to exist in the laterite containing much iron which caps the flat-convex summit of the Copper Mountain: This tubular mass is precipitous on its S. W. side, and contains two apparently natural caves situate at the bottom of the precipices, of small dimensions (NEWBOLD, T J 1845c: 514-515). CAVE DESCRIPTION 1895: FOOTE, R B (1995: 197) just about mentions two small caves nearer the summit of the mountain of which one contained thin films of an impure sulphate of alumina, of a pale yellowish to pale dirty green colour, a recent product of decomposition due to infiltrationi such as is often seen in damp excavations in simitar rocks elsewhere.The second of the two relatively small and apparently natural caves (note 1), which had been known to exist in the laterite containing much iron which caps the flat-convex summit of the Copper Mountain: This tubular mass is precipitous on its S. W. side, and contains two apparently natural caves situate at the bottom of the precipices, of small dimensions (NEWBOLD, T J 1845c: 514-515). CAVE DESCRIPTION 1895: FOOTE, R B (1995: 197) just about mentions two small caves nearer the summit of the mountain of which one contained thin films of an impure sulphate of alumina, of a pale yellowish to pale dirty green colour, a recent product of decomposition due to infiltrationi such as is often seen in damp excavations in simitar rocks elsewhere.