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West Bogan Mine (Collerina Mine), Tottenham, Flinders Co., New South Wales, Australia

A small mine at Collerina Hall, 35 km NW of Tottenham, Cobar region. Mining started at about 1900. The deposit is mainly known for pseudomalachite and libethenite.
Today, only a small, not very rewarding dump directly adjacent to the road remains.

Note: Name of the mine might not be correct, see http://www.mindat.org/mesg-7-33165.html. As Per Narromine Mine Data Sheets.
It is also reported that the Pseudomalachite is radioactive (Willis & Stevens - 1974, New South Wales Geological Survey - Mineral Industry 43, at 57pp)

Refs.:
- McColl, D. H. (1978): Pseudomalachite from near Tottenham, New South Wales. Australian Mineralogist 1(16), 77-79.
- McColl, D. H. (1978): Pseudomalachite from Australia. Mineral. Rec. 9, 295.
- McKinnon, A. R., Sharpe, J. L. and Williams, P. A. (2005): Other notable mineral occurrences in the Cobar region. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 117-121.
- Narromine Mettalogenic Mine Dat Sheets and Metallogenic Study, (1982) Geological Survey of New South Wales, HN Bowman, SJ Richardson, and J Dolanski





Mineral List:
Azurite
Chrysocolla
Cuprite
Libethenite
Malachite
Pseudomalachite
Quartz


7 entries listed. 7 valid minerals.

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