Biggenden Mine (Mount Biggenden Mine; Biggenden Gold And Bismuth Mine; Mount Biggenden Bismuth Mine; Mount Biggenden Magnetite Mine; Biggenden Quarry), Biggenden Shire, Queensland, Australia

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Main production mine in Biggenden area. Now closed but recycling of mine dumps for road metal ongoing. Originally opened as a gold mine, then operated as bismuth mine and later mined for magnetite.

Mineral List:

Actinolite
Albite
var: Oligoclase
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
'Amphibole Group'
Andradite
Ankerite
Antimony
'Apatite'
Apatite-(CaF)
Aragonite
Arsenic
Arsenopyrite
Asbolane
'Axinite'
Azurite
Baryte
Biotite
Bismite
Bismuth
Bismuthinite
Bismutite
Bornite
Calcite
var: Iceland Spar
var: Manganoan Calcite
'Chalcedony'
Chalcopyrite
Chamosite
var: Thuringite

'Chlorite Group'
Cobaltite
Copper
Diopside
Dolomite
Epidote
Erythrite
Eulytine
Ferropargasite
Fluorite
Galena
Goethite
Gold
var: Electrum
Grossular
var: Hessonite
Gypsum
Hematite
var: Martite
'Hornblende'
Ilmenite
Joséite
Laumontite
Limonite
Löllingite
Magnetite
Malachite
Maldonite
Marcasite
Marialite
Meionite
Microcline

Molybdenite
Muscovite
Pargasite
Pharmacosiderite
'Psilomelane'
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
'Pyroxene Group'
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Rutile
'Scapolite'
Scheelite
Schorl
Scorodite
Sepiolite
'Sericite'
Siderite
Smithsonite
Sphalerite
Spinel
Tetradymite
Tetrahedrite
Titanite
Vesuvianite
'Wad'
Wollastonite

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