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Murrays Reward mine, Balfour, Balfour-Temma district, Tasmania, Australia

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An abandoned old underground copper mine, mostly worked pre-WW1. The ore occurs as massive chalcopyrite and pyrite in a fault zone in siltstones.
It was reopened briefly by open cut in the 1980's.

Ref:
- Taheri, J., and Bottrill, R. S., 2004, Nature and Origins of copper and other mineralisation in the Balfour-Interview River area, NW Tasmania. Mineral Resources Tasmania, Record 2003/18





Mineral List:
  		•  Azurite
    Cu
     
    3
    		[OH|CO
     
    3
    		]
     
    2
    Reference: [Bottrill & Baker (in prep) Catalogue of minerals of Tasmania]
  		•  Brochantite
    Cu
     
    4
    		[(OH)
     
    6
    		|SO
     
    4
    		]
    Reference: [Bottrill & Baker (in prep) Catalogue of minerals of Tasmania]
  		•  Chalcocite
    Cu
     
    2
    		S
    Reference: [Bottrill & Baker (in prep) Catalogue of minerals of Tasmania]
  		•  Chalcopyrite
    CuFeS
     
    2
    Reference: [Bottrill & Baker (in prep) Catalogue of minerals of Tasmania]
  		•  Covellite
    CuS
    Reference: [Bottrill & Baker (in prep) Catalogue of minerals of Tasmania]
  		•  Digenite
    Cu
     
    9
    		S
     
    5
    Reference: [Bottrill & Baker (in prep) Catalogue of minerals of Tasmania]
  		•  Malachite
    Cu
     
    2
    		[(OH)
     
    2
    		|CO
     
    3
    		]
    Reference: [Bottrill & Baker (in prep) Catalogue of minerals of Tasmania]
  		•  Pyrite
    FeS
     
    2
    Reference: [Bottrill & Baker (in prep) Catalogue of minerals of Tasmania]
  		•  Woodwardite
    Cu
     
    4
    		Al
     
    2
    		[(OH)
     
    12
    		|SO
     
    4
    		] · 2-4H
     
    2
    		O
    Reference: [Bottrill & Baker (in prep) Catalogue of minerals of Tasmania]


    9 entries listed. 9 valid minerals.

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