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Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Mount Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia

Erythrite
Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Mount Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia

Photo: Dick Dionne
Latitude: 21°44'13"S
Longitude: 140°29'34"E
Cobalt (+As, Cu) deposit hosted in quartz-biotite-muscovite schist.
Located 153 km SE of Mount Isa.

Produced 779 tons of cobalt (Croxford, 1974).

Famous amongst collectors for erythrite specimens.

Mineral List

Alloclasite
Arsenopyrite
Atacamite
Azurite
Brochantite
Chrysocolla
Clinoclase
Cobaltite
Conichalcite
Copper
Cornetite
Cuprite
Erythrite
Glaucodot ?
Heterogenite
Lavendulan
Libethenite
Malachite
Mansfieldite
Natrojarosite
Olivenite
Olivenite
var: Cobaltoan Olivenite

Pseudomalachite
Quartz
var: Amethyst

Scheelite
Smolianinovite
Spherocobaltite


27 entries listed. 25 valid minerals.

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References

- Day, B. and Beyer, B., 1995, Some mines of the Mt Isa district, Queensland; the Mt Cobalt mine. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 1(20 P. 17-23
- Croxford, N. J. W. (1974): Cobalt mineralization at Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, with references to Mount Cobalt. Mineralium Deposita 9, 105-115.
- Smith, L. K., Han, K. N. & Lawson, F. (1977): On the occurrence of smolyaninovite in the Mount Cobalt deposit, in north-western Queensland, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine 41, 385-388.
- Nisbet, Bruce W.; Devlin, Stephen P.; Joyce, Paul J. (1983): Geology and suggested genesis of cobalt-tungsten mineralization at Mt. Cobalt, northwestern Queensland. Proceedings - Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 287, 9-17.
- UKJMM 19: 24.

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