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Wiperaminga Hill West Quarry (Wipperaminga Hill), Kalabity homestead area, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia

A feldspar/beryl (+ potash) and phosphate (triplite) mine located ESE of Kalabity homestead.
Not to be confused with Wiperaminga Hill (McMahon's Pegmatite; McMahon Quarry).

The area is now part of a Nature reserve and collecting is prohibited!
The Mineralogical Society of South Australia is helping the Australian Bush Heritage Fund to clean up, protect and make safe, this and other sites on the property.

Ref.:
- Lottermoser, B.G., and Lu, J. (1997): Petrogenesis of rare-element pegmatites in the Olary Block, South Australia, part 1. Mineralogy and chemical evolution. Mineralogy and Petrology 59, 1-19.





Mineral List:
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Almandine
'Apatite'
Barbosalite
Bermanite
Beryl
Cacoxenite
Childrenite
Cyrilovite
Diaspore
Dickinsonite-(KMnNa)
Hureaulite
Jarosite
Laueite
Lipscombite
Melanterite
Microcline
Mitridatite
Montgomeryite ?
Montmorillonite
Muscovite
Phosphosiderite
Pyrite
Quartz
Triplite
Triploidite
Vivianite
Xanthoxenite
Zwieselite


29 entries listed. 27 valid minerals.

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