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

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
  		• JosĂ©ite
  		• Laumontite
  		• Limonite
  		• Löllingite
  		• Magnetite
  		• Malachite
  		• Maldonite
  		• Marcasite
  		• Marialite
  		• 'Marialite-Meionite Series'
  		• Meionite
  		• Microcline
  		• Molybdenite
  		• Muscovite
  		• Pargasite
  		• Pharmacosiderite
  		• 'Psilomelane'
  		• Pyrite
  		• Pyrolusite
  		• 'Pyroxene Group'
  		• Pyrrhotite
  		• Quartz
       var: Smoky Quartz
  		• Rutile
  		• Scheelite
  		• Schorl
  		• Scorodite
  		• Sepiolite
  		• 'Sericite'
  		• Siderite
  		• Smithsonite
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Spinel
  		• Tetradymite
  		• Tetrahedrite
  		• Titanite
  		• Vesuvianite
  		• 'Wad'
  		• Wollastonite


    86 entries listed. 63 valid minerals.

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