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Shepherd Hill Quarry (Brukunga Quarry), Nairne, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia

Latitude: 35°0'10"S
Longitude: 138°56'6"E
Old pyrite quarry located 3.5 km NNE of Nairne (Brukunga), now used as a training place for the fire brigade.

Cambrian pyrite beds at the base of the Kanmantoo Group (quartzites, greywackes, siltstones).
The mineralization has a sedimentary origin and was affected by a remobilization during amphibolite facies metamorphism.
Tension Gash Veins, perpendicular to fold axis and mineral lineation are mineralized with manganochromite, hexagonal and monoclinic pyrrhotite, nickel, graphite, apatite, REE phosphates (Ca-Th-Ce phosphate and lanthanide phosphate) and a PdSb2 mineral.
The mineralization also contains hyalophane and barium micas.

"PIRSA is currently responsible for managing the former Brukunga pyrite mine site and investigating different remedial options aimed at achieving an environmentally sustainable solution to acid metalliferous drainage generated from the waste rocks and tailings." (MESA Journal 61 (2011) p. 25).

Mineral List

Alabandite
Anatase
Andalusite
'Apatite'
Arsenopyrite
Boulangerite
Breithauptite
Calcite
Chalcopyrite
Chlorapatite
'Chlorite Group'
Clinochlore
var: Chromian Clinochlore

Cordierite
Cubanite
Diopside
Freibergite
Gahnite
Galena
'Garnet'
Graphite
Gudmundite
Halite
'Hornblende'
Hyalophane
Hydroxylapatite
Jamesonite
Jarosite
Kyanite
Manganochromite (TL)
Marcasite
Muscovite
Nickel
Nickeline
Pentlandite
Phlogopite
Prehnite
Pyrargyrite
Pyrite
Pyrophanite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Rutile
'Scapolite'
Siderite
var: Manganoan Siderite

Sillimanite
Spessartine
Sphalerite
Stannite
'Stilbite'
Tetrahedrite
Titanite
Tremolite
Ullmannite


53 entries listed. 44 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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