ErythriteMount 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.
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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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