Mt Bischoff mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Tasmania, Australia

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Big Digger - Mt Bischoff Mine
	Mt Bischoff mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Tasmania, Australia The main excavator working the current opencut workings. Luke and Matt with assistants. NWMC trip September 09.
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Collectors dump
	Mt Bischoff mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Tasmania, Australia The collectors specimen dump as provided by the mining company for fossickers. Rocks are now becoming very oxidised from the breakdown of Arsenopyrite and other sulphides. Luke Tuma, very wet and very cold breaking rocks. Nice pyrite and fluorite still can be found.
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Mt Bischoff - Collecting in Pit
	Mt Bischoff mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Tasmania, Australia Collecting in the bottom of the pit. NWMC trip September 09.
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Mt Bischoff - Dyke
	Mt Bischoff mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Tasmania, Australia Modern works have opened up the porphyry dyke that is the basis of the exceptional mineralisation of Mt Bischoff. There is another to the right and the intervening rock is highly mineralised with really high tin counts. NWMC trip September 09.N-D60
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Mt Bischoff - going down to the Pit
	Mt Bischoff mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Tasmania, Australia The reason that we have 4wd vehicles. we have passed the hard bit and on the last drop into the base of the pit. Coming back is uphill via very slippery holes and banks. NWMC trip September 09.N-D60
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Mt Bischoff - NW face
	Mt Bischoff mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Tasmania, Australia current NW face of the pit. Note old adits and other working from the original works at the mine. Top RHS is what is left of the old slaughterhouse face. NWMC trip September 09. N-D60.
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Mt Bischoff Pit (Metal X workings)
	Mt Bischoff mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Tasmania, Australia View of the pit from looking south east. location for fluorite cube on ferron-magnesite on the bottom right hand corner of pit. NWMC trip September 09. N-D60
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NWMC gathering on Southern area
	Mt Bischoff mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Tasmania, Australia A collection of members on the September 2009 field trip by The northwest mineral Club of Tasmania to mt Bischoff
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The Mt Bischoff Mine (from Halley & Walshe, 1995)
	Mt Bischoff mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Tasmania, Australia The Mt Bischoff Mine (from Halley & Walshe, 1995)
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View of one of main adits
	Mt Bischoff mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Tasmania, Australia One of the main adits, cutting through to the other side of the mountain, with some acid mine drainage. About 2m high. Taken in 2003.
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