Small (Bi-)W deposit mined from the 1860s to 1913, with a few dumps remaining.
Wolframite- and Bi-bearing quartz reefs trending N20°E and outcropping on a low ridge of weathered Ordovician metasedimentary rocks.
Located 6 km west of Linton and 35 km west of Ballarat, about 600 m N of the Ballarat-Skipton road.
Refs.:
- Australian Journal of Mineralogy: 7(2).
- Birch, W.D., Grey, I.E., Mills, S.J., Bougerol, C., Pring, A., Ansermet, S. (2007): Pittongite, a new secondary tungstate from Pittong, Victoria, Australia. Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 857-864.
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Map Reference: 37°37'17"S , 143°30'24"E
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