SchorlYinnietharra pegmatite, Yinnietharra Station, Pilbara Region, Western Australia, Australia
Photo: Carles Millan Latitude: 24°42'S
Longitude: 115°51'E
Pegmatite located 5 km south of Pyramid Hill on Yinnietharra Station, Western Australia. It is the type locality of clinobisvanite.
The pegmatite was worked for beryl. It intrudes a quartzite belonging to the lower Proterozoic Wyloogroup (Bridge & Pryce, 1974).
Note 1: The Yinnietharra area is known for many pegmatites which were exploited for beryl during and after World War II.
Note 2: This is not the famous dravite locality (which is not a pegmatite), see Soklich Open Pit Mine, Yinnietharra.
References
- Bridge, P. J. & Pryce, M. W. (1974): Clinobisvanite, monoclinic BiVO4, a new mineral from Yinnietharra, Western Australia. Mineralogical Magazine 39: 847-9
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