An open pit iron mine (now abandoned).
Famous for a wealth of well-crystallised phosphates.
Refs.:
- Segnit, E. R. & Francis, G. (1983): Secondary phosphate minerals from Iron Monarch, South Australia. Australian Mineral. 1, 243-50.
- Pring, A., Francis, G. & Birch, W. D. (1989): Pyrobelonite, arsenoklasite, switzerite and other recent finds at Iron Monarch, South Australia. Australian Mineral. 4, 49-55.
- Amer.Min.(1990) 75, 1421-1425.
- Pring, A., Francis, G. & Birch, W. D. (1992): Nissonite, namibite, and other additions to the mineral suite from Iron Monarch, South Australia. Australian Mineral. 6, 31-39.
- Pring, A., Slade, P. G. & Birch, W. D. (1992): Shigaite from Iron Monarch, South Australia. Mineral. Mag. 56, 417-19.
- Pring, A. and Birch, W.D. (1993). Gatehouseite, a new manganese hydroxy phosphate from Iron Monarch, South Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 57, 309-313.
- Pring, A. (1998): Selenides and sulfides from Iron Monarch, South Australia. N. Jb. Mineral. Mh. 1998, 36-48.
- Pring, A., U. Kolitsch and G. Francis (2000): Additions to the mineralogy of the Iron Monarch deposit, Middleback Ranges, South Australia. Australian J. Mineral. 6, 9-23.
- Pring, A., U. Kolitsch and W. D. Birch (2005): Description and unique crystal structure of waterhouseite, a new hydroxy manganese phosphate species from the Iron Monarch deposit, Middleback Ranges, South Australia. Can. Mineral. 43, 1401-1410.
Anthony, Bideaux, Bladh, Nichols: Handbook of Mineralogy, Vol. IV.
www.crocoite.com (Steve Sorrell) and references therein.
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