PseudomalachiteWest Bogan 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 (2008), 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 slightly radioactive (Willis & Stevens - 1974, New South Wales Geological Survey - Mineral Industry 43, at 57pp).
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References
- 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.
- Narromine Metalogenic Mine Data Sheets and Metallogenic Study, (1982) Geological Survey of New South Wales, HN Bowman, SJ Richardson, and J Dolanski
- 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.
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