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Adelaide Mine (Adelaide Pty Mine; Adelaide Proprietary Mine), Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia

Latitude: 41°53'7"S
Longitude: 145°25'44"E
An abandoned underground silver-lead mine, now operated as a (crocoite) specimen mine, and probably the prime source of crocoite in the world.

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Mineral List

Anglesite
Cerussite
var: Chrome-Cerussite
Chalcophanite
Chlorargyrite
Chromite
Coronadite
Crocoite
Dolomite
Dundasite (TL)
Galena
Gersdorffite
Gibbsite
Goethite
Hisingerite
Lepidocrocite
'Limonite'
Mimetite
Muscovite
var: Fuchsite

Oxyplumboroméite
Philipsbornite
Phosgenite
Pyrite
Quartz
Rhodochrosite
Siderite
Sphalerite
Stichtite


28 entries listed. 25 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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References

- Dana 7:II:648.
- Bottrill et al. (2006): Austral. J. Mineralogy.
- Praszkier, T. & Wright, A. (2011): Ein neuer Krokoit-Sensationsfund in der Adelaide Mine/Tasmanien. Mineralien Welt. 22 (2): 70-79


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