Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia

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An open pit iron mine (now abandoned).
Famous for a wealth of well-crystallised phosphates.

References

- Segnit, E. R. & Francis, G. (1983): Secondary phosphate minerals from Iron Monarch, South Australia. Australian Mineral. 1, 243-50.
- Pring, A., Francis, G. & Birch, W. D. (1989): Pyrobelonite, arsenoklasite, switzerite and other recent finds at Iron Monarch, South Australia. Australian Mineral. 4, 49-55.
- Amer.Min.(1990) 75, 1421-1425.
- Pring, A., Francis, G. & Birch, W. D. (1992): Nissonite, namibite, and other additions to the mineral suite from Iron Monarch, South Australia. Australian Mineral. 6, 31-39.
- Pring, A., Slade, P. G. & Birch, W. D. (1992): Shigaite from Iron Monarch, South Australia. Mineral. Mag. 56, 417-19.
- Pring, A. and Birch, W.D. (1993). Gatehouseite, a new manganese hydroxy phosphate from Iron Monarch, South Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 57, 309-313.
- Pring, A. (1998): Selenides and sulfides from Iron Monarch, South Australia. N. Jb. Mineral. Mh. 1998, 36-48.
- Pring, A., U. Kolitsch and G. Francis (2000): Additions to the mineralogy of the Iron Monarch deposit, Middleback Ranges, South Australia. Australian J. Mineral. 6, 9-23.
- Pring, A., U. Kolitsch and W. D. Birch (2005): Description and unique crystal structure of waterhouseite, a new hydroxy manganese phosphate species from the Iron Monarch deposit, Middleback Ranges, South Australia. Can. Mineral. 43, 1401-1410.
- Francis, G. A. (2010): Minerals of Iron Monarch. OneSteel, Whyalla, Australia, 165 pp.

- Whyalla SI5308 1: 250 000, Mineral Occurrence Map

External Links

- http://www.crocoite.com (Steve Sorrell) and references therein.

Mineral List

Acanthite Actinolite Albite Allactite Alunite Anatase Anglesite 'Apatite' Aragonite Arsenoclasite Atacamite Aurichalcite Autunite Azurite Baryte Bermanite Beyerite Biotite Bismoclite Bismuthinite Bismutite Bohdanowiczite Bornite Bracewellite Braunite Brochantite Calcite var: Manganoan Calcite Calderónite Celestine Cerussite Chalcanthite Chalcocite Chalcophanite Chalcopyrite Chalcosiderite Chlorargyrite Chrysocolla Churchite-(Y) Clausthalite Clinoatacamite Clinobisvanite Clinochlore

Collinsite Conichalcite Connellite Copper Covellite Crandallite Cryptomelane Cummingtonite Cuprite Cyrilovite Descloizite Diaspore Dickite Digenite Djurleite Dolomite Dufrénite Eosphorite Epidote Eucairite Fairfieldite Faustite Fluorapatite var: Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite Fraipontite Francisite (TL) Franklinite Galena Gatehouseite (TL) Gibbsite Goethite Gorceixite Graphite Greenockite Groutite Grunerite Guanajuatite Gypsum Halite Halloysite Hausmannite Hematite Hemimorphite

Hetaerolite Hidalgoite Hureaulite Hydrozincite Iodargyrite Jacobsite Jahnsite-(CaMnMn) Jarosite Kaolinite Kidwellite Kintoreite Kleemanite (TL) Lepidocrocite Libethenite Linarite Magnesite Magnetite Malachite Manganite Metaswitzerite Microcline Millisite Mimetite Mitridatite Montgomeryite Montmorillonite Mottramite var: Duhamelite Muscovite Nacrite Namibite Natrojarosite Naumannite Nissonite Nontronite Opal var: Opal-AN Paratacamite Paravauxite Pennantite Phillipsite-K Piemontite Plumbojarosite

Pseudomalachite 'Psilomelane' Pyrite Pyrobelonite Pyrolusite Pyromorphite Pyrosmalite-(Mn) Pyrrhotite Quartz Ramsdellite Rhodochrosite Robertsite Romanèchite Rosasite Rutile Sassolite Seamanite Sepiolite 'Serpentine Group' Shigaite Siderite Silver Smithsonite Sphalerite Strengite Stromeyerite Sussexite Switzerite Talc Titanite Triploidite Turquoise Umangite Vanadinite Variscite Vauquelinite Wardite Waterhouseite (TL) Wavellite Weberite 'Whiteite' Wittichenite Woodhouseite

172 entries listed. 162 valid minerals. 4 type localities (valid minerals).