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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

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Biggenden Mine, Biggenden Shire, Queensland, Australia

Photo: Alan Goldstein
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'
Aragonite
Arsenic
Arsenopyrite
Asbolane
'Axinite'
Azurite
Baryte
Biotite
Bismite
Bismuth
Bismuthinite
Bismutite
Bornite
Calcite
Calcite
var: Iceland Spar

var: Manganoan Calcite
Chalcopyrite
Chamosite
var: Thuringite
'Chlorite Group'
Cobaltite
Copper
Diopside
Dolomite
Epidote
Erythrite
Eulytine
Ferropargasite
Fluorapatite
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
var: Sericite
Pargasite
Pharmacosiderite
'Psilomelane'
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
'Pyroxene Group'
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
var: Chalcedony
var: Smoky Quartz
Rutile
'Scapolite'
Scheelite
Schorl
Scorodite
Sepiolite
Siderite
Smithsonite
Sphalerite
Spinel
Tetradymite
Tetrahedrite
Titanite
Vesuvianite
'Wad'
Wollastonite


86 entries listed. 63 valid minerals.

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