Pegmatite located 5 km south of Pyramid Hill on Yinnietharra Station, Western Australia. It is the TL of clinobisvanite.
The pegmatite was worked for beryl. It intrudes a quartzite belonging to the lower Proterozoic Wyloogroup (Bridge & Pryce (1974).
Note 1: The Yiennitharra area is known for many pegmatites which was 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 Yiennietharra, Western Australia. Mineralogical Magazine 39: 847-9
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Map Reference: 24°42'S , 115°51'E
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