Bendigo Zone, Victoria, Australiai

Regional Level Types
Bendigo Zone	Zone (Tectonic)
Victoria	State
Australia	Country

Locality: Alfredton, City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Description: SEM indicates that green "aegirine" has much more Ca than Na so if it is a pyroxene it is probably hedenbergite (Peter Elliot pers comm).

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

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Reference: Birch et al. (2008) Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 14(1), 37-42.

Locality: Woodend Province, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Ewart, A., Chappell, B. W., & Le Maitre, R. W. (1985). Aspects of the mineralogy and chemistry of the intermediate‐silicic Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia. Part 1: Introduction and geochemistry. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 359-382. Dasch, E. J., & Millar, D. J. (1977). Age and strontium‐isotope geochemistry of differentiated rocks from the newer Volcanics, MT Macedon Area, Victoria, Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 24(3-4), 195-201. Edwards, A. B. (1938). The Tertiary volcanic rocks of central Victoria. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 94(1-4), 243-320. Ewart, A. (1985). Aspects of the mineralogy and chemistry of the intermediate‐silicic Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia. Part 2: Mineralogy and petrogenesis. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 383-413. Ferguson, A. K. (1978). A mineralogical investigation of some trachytic lavas and associated pegmatoids from camel's hump and turritable falls, central Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 25(3-4), 185-197. Wellman, P. (1974). Potassium‐argon ages on the Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Victoria, Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 21(4), 359-376. Knutson, J., & Nicholls, I. A. (1989). Macedon–Trentham. Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand, 136-137.

Localities: Reported from at least 15 localities in this region.

Description: SEM indicates that this mineral has about equal sodium and potassium so is likely albite-orthoclase or andesine-anorthoclase (Peter Elliot, pers comm).

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Localities: Reported from at least 7 localities in this region.

Description: SEM indicates that this mineral has about equal sodium and potassium so is likely albite-orthoclase or andesine-anorthoclase (Peter Elliot, pers comm).

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Localities: Reported from at least 8 localities in this region.

Reference: Dov Bahat (1979) Anorthoclase Megacrysts: Physical Conditions of Formation. Mineralogical Magazine 43:287-291

Locality: Woodend Province, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Ewart, A., Chappell, B. W., & Le Maitre, R. W. (1985). Aspects of the mineralogy and chemistry of the intermediate‐silicic Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia. Part 1: Introduction and geochemistry. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 359-382. Dasch, E. J., & Millar, D. J. (1977). Age and strontium‐isotope geochemistry of differentiated rocks from the newer Volcanics, MT Macedon Area, Victoria, Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 24(3-4), 195-201. Edwards, A. B. (1938). The Tertiary volcanic rocks of central Victoria. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 94(1-4), 243-320. Ewart, A. (1985). Aspects of the mineralogy and chemistry of the intermediate‐silicic Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia. Part 2: Mineralogy and petrogenesis. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 383-413. Ferguson, A. K. (1978). A mineralogical investigation of some trachytic lavas and associated pegmatoids from camel's hump and turritable falls, central Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 25(3-4), 185-197. Wellman, P. (1974). Potassium‐argon ages on the Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Victoria, Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 21(4), 359-376. Knutson, J., & Nicholls, I. A. (1989). Macedon–Trentham. Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand, 136-137.

Locality: Nulla Vale, Mitchell Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection

Locality: Parwan lava caves, Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: Reported as pale earthy stalactites up to 8 cm long

Reference: Phosphate Minerals of Victoria, The Mineralogical Society of Victoria, Special Publication No. 3 1993

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Reference: Judy Rowe collection

Locality: Pyramid Hill granite quarry (Mawson's Quarry), Pyramid Hill, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Ryan Eagle

Locality: Allendale, Creswick, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Kirejtshuk, A. G., Merkl, O., & Kernegger, F. (2008). A new species of the genus Pentaphyllus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae, Diaperinae) from the Baltic amber and checklist of the fossil Tenebrionidae. Zoosyst Ross, 17, 131-137.

Locality: Woodend Province, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Ewart, A., Chappell, B. W., & Le Maitre, R. W. (1985). Aspects of the mineralogy and chemistry of the intermediate‐silicic Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia. Part 1: Introduction and geochemistry. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 359-382. Dasch, E. J., & Millar, D. J. (1977). Age and strontium‐isotope geochemistry of differentiated rocks from the newer Volcanics, MT Macedon Area, Victoria, Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 24(3-4), 195-201. Edwards, A. B. (1938). The Tertiary volcanic rocks of central Victoria. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 94(1-4), 243-320. Ewart, A. (1985). Aspects of the mineralogy and chemistry of the intermediate‐silicic Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia. Part 2: Mineralogy and petrogenesis. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 383-413. Ferguson, A. K. (1978). A mineralogical investigation of some trachytic lavas and associated pegmatoids from camel's hump and turritable falls, central Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 25(3-4), 185-197. Wellman, P. (1974). Potassium‐argon ages on the Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Victoria, Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 21(4), 359-376. Knutson, J., & Nicholls, I. A. (1989). Macedon–Trentham. Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand, 136-137.

Locality: Theodore Company Mine, Clunes, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Only one small specimen of analcime has been preserved in the collection of the Museum of Victoria. It consists of a small vug of white to colourless, fracture, transparent trapezohedrons up to 4 mm in diameter."

Reference: D.A.Henry. 1988. Minerals from the Clunes Goldfield. Australian Mineralogist, Vol.3 April-June, 1988 pp 43-52

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Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

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Reference: Bierlein, F.P., and McNaughton, N.J. (1998): Mineralium Deposita 33, 633-638.

Locality: Silver Spoon prospect, Mount Camel, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Barry, R.J., (1992). EL 3307 Ladys Pass, Victoria - Annual report for period ending 4 September, 1992. CRA Exploration Pty Ltd.

Localities: Reported from at least 7 localities in this region.

Reference: Bierlein, F. P., Fuller, T., Stüwe, K., Arne, D. C., & Keays, R. R. (1998). Wallrock alteration associated with turbidite-hosted gold deposits. Examples from the Palaeozoic Lachlan Fold Belt in central Victoria, Australia. Ore Geology Reviews, 13(1), 345-380.

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Reference: Shayan, Ahmad (1984) Hisingerite material from a basalt quarry near Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Clays and Clay Minerals, Vol 32, No.4, pp 272-278.

Locality: Nichterlein's quarry, Lower Paper Mills Road, Fyansford, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Shayan, Ahmad (1984) Hisingerite material from a basalt quarry near Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Clays and Clay Minerals, Vol 32, No.4, pp 272-278.

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Reference: Willman, C.E., Bibby, L.M., Radojkovic, A.M., Maher, S., Haydon, S.J., Hollis, J.D ., Osborne, C.R. (2002): Castlemaine 1:100 000 Map Area Geological Report, Geological Survey of Victoria Report 121. [ISBN: 0 7306 9462 3]

Localities: Reported from at least 10 localities in this region.

Reference: No reference listed

Localities: Reported from at least 18 localities in this region.

Reference: Henry, D. A., in Australian Journal of Mineralogy, Vol.1 No.2 , 13-15

Locality: Riordan's Quarry, Colac, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Locality: Woodend Province, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Ewart, A., Chappell, B. W., & Le Maitre, R. W. (1985). Aspects of the mineralogy and chemistry of the intermediate‐silicic Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia. Part 1: Introduction and geochemistry. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 359-382. Dasch, E. J., & Millar, D. J. (1977). Age and strontium‐isotope geochemistry of differentiated rocks from the newer Volcanics, MT Macedon Area, Victoria, Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 24(3-4), 195-201. Edwards, A. B. (1938). The Tertiary volcanic rocks of central Victoria. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 94(1-4), 243-320. Ewart, A. (1985). Aspects of the mineralogy and chemistry of the intermediate‐silicic Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia. Part 2: Mineralogy and petrogenesis. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 383-413. Ferguson, A. K. (1978). A mineralogical investigation of some trachytic lavas and associated pegmatoids from camel's hump and turritable falls, central Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 25(3-4), 185-197. Wellman, P. (1974). Potassium‐argon ages on the Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Victoria, Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 21(4), 359-376. Knutson, J., & Nicholls, I. A. (1989). Macedon–Trentham. Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand, 136-137.

Locality: Central Ajax, Daylesford Gold Field, Daylesford, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Willman, C.E., Bibby, L.M., Radojkovic, A.M., Maher, S., Haydon, S.J., Hollis, J.D ., Osborne, C.R. (2002): Castlemaine 1:100 000 Map Area Geological Report, Geological Survey of Victoria Report 121. [ISBN: 0 7306 9462 3]

Localities: Reported from at least 23 localities in this region.

Reference: Ciobanu, C. L., Birch, W. D., Cook, N. J., Pring, A., & Grundler, P. V. (2010) Petrogenetic significance of Au–Bi–Te–S associations: the example of Maldon, Central Victorian gold province, Australia. Lithos, 116(1), 1-17.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Uwe Kolitsch (SXRD-analysis)

Localities: Reported from at least 13 localities in this region.

Reference: Shayan, Ahmad (1984) Hisingerite material from a basalt quarry near Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Clays and Clay Minerals, Vol 32, No.4, pp 272-278.

Locality: Woodend Province, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Ewart, A., Chappell, B. W., & Le Maitre, R. W. (1985). Aspects of the mineralogy and chemistry of the intermediate‐silicic Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia. Part 1: Introduction and geochemistry. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 359-382. Dasch, E. J., & Millar, D. J. (1977). Age and strontium‐isotope geochemistry of differentiated rocks from the newer Volcanics, MT Macedon Area, Victoria, Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 24(3-4), 195-201. Edwards, A. B. (1938). The Tertiary volcanic rocks of central Victoria. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 94(1-4), 243-320. Ewart, A. (1985). Aspects of the mineralogy and chemistry of the intermediate‐silicic Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia. Part 2: Mineralogy and petrogenesis. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 383-413. Ferguson, A. K. (1978). A mineralogical investigation of some trachytic lavas and associated pegmatoids from camel's hump and turritable falls, central Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 25(3-4), 185-197. Wellman, P. (1974). Potassium‐argon ages on the Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Victoria, Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 21(4), 359-376. Knutson, J., & Nicholls, I. A. (1989). Macedon–Trentham. Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand, 136-137.

Locality: Lake Cooper quarry, Corop, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Henry, D.A., Birch, W.D. & MacRae, C.M. (2005): Manganaxinite from Pyle's limestone near Benambra, and ferroaxinite from Corop, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 11, 27-33.

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Reference: EDWARDS, J., WOHLT, K.E., SLATER, K.R.,OLSHINA, A., AND HUTCHINSON, D.F., 1998. Heathcote and parts of Woodend and Echuca1:100 000 map area geological report. Geological Survey of Victoria Report 108.

Locality: The Harcourt Quarries, Harcourt North, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "The babingtonite occurs as an elongated black crystalline aggregate, 2 cm by 3 mm in cross-section, enclosed partly by stilbite and partly by apophyllite. In addition, many small single crystals, up to 5 mm long, are enclosed in stilbite or apophyllite, or project into a small irregular cavity which has been etched from the apophyllite. The babingtonite crystals are glossy black, crushing to a dark greyish green. They tend to be slightly tabular and may show coffin-shaped longitudinal sections. Faces in the plane of flattening may be striated."

Reference: Birch, W.D. (1983) Babingtonite, fluorapophyllite and sphene from Harcourt, Victoria, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, Sept. 1983, 47, 377-380.

Locality: Port Phillip Mine, Clunes, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Pharmacosiderite was first recorded from Clunes in 1866 as drusy coatings of brownish red, sub transparent crystals, up to 1/8 inch in size, in the Port Phillip Company's Mine. There are several pharmacosiderite specimens preserved in the collection on the Museum of Victoria. The barium-pharmacosiderite forms transparent to translucent reddish brown to orange brown cubes up to 1.5 mm across, on quartz coated with pyrolusite. The larger crystals often show slightly curved faces and appear zoned. The crystals are often modified displaying the cube and tetrahedron combination with octahedral fractures present. Generally crystal groups of simple contact twins are present."

Reference: D.A.Henry 1988. Minerals from the Clunes Goldfields. Australian Mineralogist Vol.3 April/June, 1988

Locality: Robinson’s Reef, Clunes, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia

Colour: Pale orange-brown

Reference: Hager, S.L., Leverett, P., Williams, P.A., Mills, S.J., Hibbs, D.E., Raudsepp, M., Kampf, A.R., Birch, W.D. (2010): The single-crystal X-ray structures of bariopharmacosiderite-C, bariopharmacosiderite-Q and natropharmacosiderite, Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 1477-1485.

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Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Locality: Rixon Sandstone Quarries, Campbells Creek, Castlemaine, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Pat Sutton & Museum Victoria

Locality: Antimony occurrence, Inglewood, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Birch, W. D. (2015) Native antimony from Inglewood, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy Vol. 17 #2, 88-90.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Several colourless prismatic crystals of beryl up to 1.5 cm long have been found in one clay-filled cavity in the Lake Boga granite."

Reference: Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.

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Reference: Mills, S.J., Kampf, A.R., Sutton, P. and Birch, W.D. (2017) Betpakdalite-FeFe, IMA 2017-011. CNMNC Newsletter No. 37, June 2017, page 740; Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 737–742.

Localities: Reported from at least 12 localities in this region.

Reference: Bierlein, F.P., and McNaughton, N.J. (1998): Mineralium Deposita 33, 633-638.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Confirmed by Peter Elliot

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Reference: report 121

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Reference: report 121

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Description: "In April 1995 a boulder was broken open of pegmatite in the quarry, exposing copper mineralisation consisting of massive supergene chalcocite partially altered to a suite of secondary copper and silver minerals, including one containing Ca,Cu,Bi,P and Cl. (Bleasdaleite). The chalcocite in the bleasdaleite-bearing boulder forms massive patches up to about 5 cm across, occupying space between large orthoclase crystals. The rock around these patches is stained green, possibly due to malachite. Thin sections show that much of the chalcocite has been corroded and altered to veinlets of covellite. Secondary minerals have precipitated on the corroded surface of the chalcocite-covelliet. Pseudomalachite and chalcosiderite/turquoise form globules and crusts, while rare ulrichit, libethenite, torbernite and iodargyrite are present as scattered crystals with dimensions less than 1 mm. Bleasdaleite itself occurs as thin, dark brown scaly crusts and hemispherical clusters up to about 0.1 mm across. Scanning electron microscopy reveals delicate tabular crystals forming open rosette-like clusters and linings. The crystals reach up to about 20 micron across but are less than 1 micron thick. The lustre on broken surfaces is resinous, streak pale brown. Thin sections show bleasdaleite crystals are transparent and also reveal a well developed (001) cleavage."

Reference: Birch, B., Pring, A., Kolitsch, U. (1999) Bleasdaleite, (Ca,Fe3+)2Cu5(Bi,Cu)(PO4)4¬(H2O,OH,Cl)13, a new mineral from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy: 5: 69-75.; Jambor, J.L., Pertsev, N.N., Roberts, A.C. (2000) New mineral names. American Mineralogist: 85: 1321-1325.

Locality: Fosterville Goldfield, Fosterville, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Simon Hitchman (2013), The Fosterville Gold Mine: Present Geological Understandings of the Deposit. AIG Bulletin 55

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Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection

Locality: Lake Cooper quarry, Corop, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: crocoite.com

Locality: Pyramid Hill granite quarry (Mawson's Quarry), Pyramid Hill, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Localities: Reported from at least 24 localities in this region.

Reference: Ryan Eagle Collection

Locality: Fosterville Goldfield, Fosterville, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: L. D. Leader; J. A. Robinson; C. J. L. Wilson (2010): Role of faults and folding in controlling gold mineralisation at Fosterville, Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 57, 259–277.

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Reference: Willman, C.E., Bibby, L.M., Radojkovic, A.M., Maher, S., Haydon, S.J. Hollis, J.D., Osborne, C.R. (2002) Castlemaine 1:100 000 map area geological report. Geological Survey of Victoria, Report 121.

Locality: Silver Spoon prospect, Mount Camel, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Barry, R.J., (1992). EL 3307 Ladys Pass, Victoria - Annual report for period ending 4 September, 1992. CRA Exploration Pty Ltd.

Locality: Coimadai Antimony Mine, Pyrites Creek (Coimadai Creek; Pyretes Creek; Pyrete Creek), Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia

Localities: Reported from at least 6 localities in this region.

Reference: Henry, D. A., Australian Journal of Mineralogy, Vol.1 No.2 , 13-15.

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Reference: Birch, W.D. (1989) Zeolites of Victoria. Mineralogical Society of Victoria - Special Publication No.2 (110 pages).

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Description: "Chabazite is the most common zeolite from the South Clunes area and generally forms the large complex twins (phacolite variety) occurring as clear, glassy, fractured crystals up to 1.7 cm in diameter lining vugs in the basalt. It is found associated with the other zeolites, thomsonite, mesolite and levyne and is very similar in appearance to the 'phacolite' from Richmond-Collingwood quarries in Melbourne."

Reference: Henry, D. A (1988): Minerals from the Clunes Gold Field. Austral. Mineral. 3 (3), 43-52. W.D.Birch 1989. Zeolites of Victoria, The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 2, 1989 pg. 83,94

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Reference: crocoite.com

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "The chalcocite in the bleasdaleite-bearing boulder forms massive patches up to about 5 cm across, occupying space between large orthoclase crystals. The rock around these patches is stained green, possibly due to malachite. Thin sections show that much of the chalcocite has been corroded and altered to veinlets of covellite. Secondary minerals have precipitated on the corroded surface of the chalcocite-covellite."

Reference: Jambor, J.L., Pertsev, N.N., Roberts, A.C. (2000) New mineral names. American Mineralogist: 85: 1321-1325.; Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.

Localities: Reported from at least 22 localities in this region.

Reference: Barry, R.J., (1992). EL 3307 Ladys Pass, Victoria - Annual report for period ending 4 September, 1992. CRA Exploration Pty Ltd.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Pale blue, pale green or bluish green globular crusts and individual spheres or hemispheres of minerals in the composition series between turquoise and chalcosiderite are widespread in the Lake Boga granite quarry. They occur most often lining small miarolitic cavities but may also be found on joint planes and in cavities etched in fluorapatite. Individual globules may reach close to 1 mm across. Well formed crystals have not been observed. Massive partial replacements of orthoclase crystals by turquoise have been collected, but are very rare. As an early-formed secondary hydrothermal mineral, turquoise/chalcosiderite is found with most of the other secondary phosphates from Lake Boga. Microprobe analyses of the bluish green crusts show the compositions fall between ferrian turquoise and aluminan chalcosiderite."

Reference: Jambor, J.L., Pertsev, N.N., Roberts, A.C. (2000) New mineral names. American Mineralogist: 85: 1321-1325.; Mills, S.J., Birch, W.D., Kolitsch, U., Mumme, W.G., Grey, I.E. (2008) Lakebogaite, CaNaFe3+2H(UO2)2(PO4)4(OH)2(H2O)8, a new uranyl phosphate with a unique crystal structure from Victoria, Australia. American Mineralogist: 93: 691–697.; Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.; Henry, D.A., Birch, W.D. (1998) Sampleite and associated minerals from Lake Boga granite quarry, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineralogist: 3: 135-148.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Maas, R., Phillips, D. & Plimer, I. R. (2008) Lake Boga Granite, northwestern Victoria: mineralogy, geochemistry and geochronology, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55(3), 281–299.; Mills, S. J. & Birch, W. D. (2010) Uranmineralien aus dem Lake-Boga-Granit, Victoria, Australien. Mineralien-Welt, 21(3), 62–67. (In German)

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Highly lustrous single crystals of brownish green chlorargyrite less than 0.5 mm across occur very rarely in cavities in the granite. They may be found with orange-brown clay, turquoise/chalcosiderite and, more rarely, with torbernite. The source of the silver in the granite is unknown."

Reference: Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.

Localities: Reported from at least 10 localities in this region.

Reference: Ryan Eagle Collection

Localities:

Reference: EDWARDS, J., WOHLT, K.E., SLATER, K.R.,OLSHINA, A., AND HUTCHINSON, D.F., 1998. Heathcote and parts of Woodend and Echuca1:100 000 map area geological report. Geological Survey of Victoria Report 108.

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Reference: crocoite.com

Locality: Steiglitz, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection

Locality: Nichterlein's quarry, Lower Paper Mills Road, Fyansford, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Judy Rowe

Locality: Lake Cooper quarry, Corop, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: crocoite.com

Locality: Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Locality: Lake Cooper quarry, Corop, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

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Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Reference: No reference listed

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Description: "On a few specimens from Tylden quarry, small thread-like native copper wires have been found."

Reference: W.D.Birch 1989. Zeolites of Victoria, The Mineralogical Association Of Victoria No. 2 pp. 75-84

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Reference: Bierlein, F.P., and McNaughton, N.J. (1998): Mineralium Deposita 33, 633-638.

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Habit: Massive, nodular

Colour: Purple

Description: Occasionally found as green-purple corundum-fuchsite rock around the propsect area. Samples are distinctly denser than the main metabasaltic country rock, which can be difficult to visually distinguish in the field due to dirt and lichen overgrowth and the subtlety of the purple colouration.

Reference: McAndrew, J. & Marsden, M.A.H., 1968. A regional guide to Victorian geology. Geology Department, University of Melbourne. Ryan Eagle field collected 2016

Locality: Brownes Road, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Judy Rowe Collection

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "The chalcocite in the bleasdaleite-bearing boulder forms massive patches up to about 5 cm across, occupying space between large orthoclase crystals. The rock around these patches is stained green, possibly due to malachite. Thin sections show that much of the chalcocite has been corroded and altered to veinlets of covellite. Secondary minerals have precipitated on the corroded surface of the chalcocite-covellite."

Reference: Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Crandalite occurs rarely as glistening white hemispheres up to 0.3 mm across in miarolitic cavities. As well, pale blue crandallite with a pearly lustre forms rare cavity infillings and prismatic radiating crystal sprays a few mm across, possibly pseudomorphs after wavellite. Microprobe analysis show this pale blue variety has a composition between crandallite and goyazite and contains a small amount of copper. It is best refered to as cuprian strontian crandallite."

Reference: Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.; Henry, D.A., Birch, W.D. (1998) Sampleite and associated minerals from Lake Boga granite quarry, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineralogist: 3: 135-148.

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Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection

Locality: Copper mine, Mount Camel, Toolleen, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Edwards et al, Heathcote and parts of Woodend and Echuca, Geological Survey Report 108, Victorian Geological Survey.

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Habit: tabular

Colour: bright yellow through yellowish-green and olive-green to orange and brown

Reference: P. Sutton (2007): Cyrilovite and natrodufrenite from near Campbells Creek, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 13(2), 65-71.

Locality: 'Selwynite' occurrence, Mount Ida, Heathcote, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: McAndrew, J. & Marsden, M.A.H., 1968. A regional guide to Victorian geology. Geology Department, University of Melbourne.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

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Reference: Judy Rowe Collection

Localities:

Reference: Judy Rowe Collection

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Localities: Reported from at least 8 localities in this region.

Locality: Nichterlein's quarry, Lower Paper Mills Road, Fyansford, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection

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Reference: Ma, C., Rubin, A.E. (2019) Edscottite, Fe5C2, a new iron carbide mineral from the Ni-rich Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite. American Mineralogist, 104:9, 1351–1355.; Ma, C. and Rubin, A. (2019) Edscottite, IMA 2018-086a. CNMNC Newsletter No. 47, February 2019: 204; European Journal of Mineralogy: 31: 199–204.

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Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection

Locality: Lake Cooper quarry, Corop, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: crocoite.com

Locality: 'Selwynite' occurrence, Mount Ida, Heathcote, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Ryan Eagle Collection

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Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Localities: Reported from at least 9 localities in this region.

Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

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Reference: Willman, C.E., Bibby, L.M., Radojkovic, A.M., Maher, S., Haydon, S.J., Hollis, J.D ., Osborne, C.R. (2002): Castlemaine 1:100 000 Map Area Geological Report, Geological Survey of Victoria Report 121. [ISBN: 0 7306 9462 3]

Locality: White Swan pegmatite mine, Mount Kooyoora, Brenanah, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Ryan Eagle field collected 2018

Locality: Coimadai Antimony Mine, Pyrites Creek (Coimadai Creek; Pyretes Creek; Pyrete Creek), Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Small clusters of black tabular crystals of ferberite up to 2 mm across occur in miarolitic cavities in the Lake Boga granite." Ferberite has also been found in crystalline masses up to 5 cm across embedded in granite.

Reference: Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.

Locality: Mount Moliagul, Moliagul, Central Goldfields Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Uwe Kolitsch collection

Locality: Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Irving, A. J. (1974): Megacrysts from the Newer Basalts and Other Basaltic Rocks of Southeastern Australia. Geological Society of America Bulletin 85, 1503-1514.

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Reference: Sutton, P. (2017) Tridymite and associated minerals from cavities in icelandite from the Spring Hill area, Victoria, Australia. Australian and New Zealand Micromineral News, 13, 3:13.

Localities: Reported from at least 6 localities in this region.

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Description: Fluorapatite occurs as vitreous, orange globules up to 1 mm across, often forming botryoidal crusts associated with mongomeryite and gordonite. The globules show faint concentric growth banding. Also crusts of tiny white needles of Fluorapatite occur lining cavities and coating the orange globular variety, giving them a furry appearence.

Reference: Birch, W.D. & Henry, D.J., 1993, Phosphate Minerals of Victoria, The Mineralogical Society of Victoria

Locality: The Harcourt Quarries, Harcourt North, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "The pearly, white apophyllite mineral forms irregular patches up to 2 or 3 cm across in the aggregate. The material bordering the etched cavity is quite pulverulent but tends to become harder at the margin of the aggregate where it is in contact with granodiorite."

Reference: Birch, W.D. (1983) Babingtonite, fluorapophyllite and sphene from Harcourt, Victoria, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, Sept. 1983, 47, 377-380.

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Reference: Willman, C.E., Bibby, L.M., Radojkovic, A.M., Maher, S., Haydon, S.J. Hollis, J.D., Osborne, C.R. (2002) Castlemaine 1:100 000 map area geological report. Geological Survey of Victoria, Report 121.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: Fluor-schorl is the dominant tourmaline at Lake Boga occurring as black interlocking crystals masses up to 15 cm across in the granite, also as single black crystals up to 5 cm long in miarolitic cavities (pers. com. S.Mills)

Reference: Ertl, A., Kolitsch, U., Dyar, M.D., Meyer, H.-P., Rossman, G.R., Henry, D.J., Prem, M., Ludwig, T., Nasdala, L., Lengauer, C.L., Tillmanns, E. and Niedermayr, G. (2016): Fluor-schorl, a new member of the tourmaline supergroup, and new data on schorl from the cotype localities. Eur. J. Mineral. 28, 163-177.

Locality: Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Van King

Localities: Reported from at least 18 localities in this region.

Reference: Personally Collected by Ryan Eagle 2012

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Reference: Ryan Eagle personal observation 2016

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

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Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

Locality: North Deborah, Bendigo, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: VicMine ID: 373261.

Localities: Reported from at least 9 localities in this region.

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Localities: Reported from at least 304 localities in this region.

Reference: Raywood and part of Dingee 1:50 000 Geological Map, Energy and Minerals Division, Geological Survey of Victoria, 2001. Whitelaw, H.S. (1904) The Northern Bendigo and Raywood Gold-Field, Geological Survey of Victoria, Bulletin No. 12.

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Reference: Henry, D. A., in Australian Journal of Mineralogy, Vol.1 No.2 , 13-15

Locality: Parwan lava caves, Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia

Colour: colourless

Description: Gordonite forms crusts and aggregates of colorless platy crystals up to 0.3 mm across, often on soft pale brown clay fragments. Parwan is the first record of this mineral forming in a cave environment.

Reference: Birch, W.D. & Henry, D.J., 1993, Phosphate Minerals of Victoria, The Mineralogical Society of Victoria, Special Publication No. 3

Locality: Ballarat West Goldfield, City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Bierlein, F. P., Fuller, T., Stüwe, K., Arne, D. C., & Keays, R. R. (1998). Wallrock alteration associated with turbidite-hosted gold deposits. Examples from the Palaeozoic Lachlan Fold Belt in central Victoria, Australia. Ore Geology Reviews, 13(1), 345-380.

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Reference: George Lysiuk Collection

Locality: Burnt Creek, Dunolly, Central Goldfields Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Mark Raven , Rob Fitzpatrick , Paul Shand and Stuart McClure, 2010, Minerals diagnostic of acid sulfate soils. Extended Abstracts – 21st Australian Clay Minerals Conference – Brisbane, August 2010 Rob Fitzpatrick, Paul Shand, Mark Raven and Stuart McClure, 2010, Occurrence and environmental significance of sideronatrite and other mineral precipitates in Acid Sulfate Soils. 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Soil Solutions for a Changing World

Locality: Energetic line of Reef, Lauriston Gold Field, Lauriston, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: G.H.F.Ulrich 1870. Contributions to the Mineralogy of Victoria 1870, pg 20.

Locality: Mt Bullengarook, Bullengarook, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Natural History Museum Vienna collection

Locality: Alfredton, City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Description: SEM indicates that green "aegirine" has much more Ca than Na so if it is a pyroxene it is probably hedenbergite (Peter Elliot pers comm).

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Localities: Reported from at least 9 localities in this region.

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Locality: Burnt Creek, Dunolly, Central Goldfields Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Mark Raven , Rob Fitzpatrick , Paul Shand and Stuart McClure, 2010, Minerals diagnostic of acid sulfate soils. Extended Abstracts – 21st Australian Clay Minerals Conference – Brisbane, August 2010 Rob Fitzpatrick, Paul Shand, Mark Raven and Stuart McClure, 2010, Occurrence and environmental significance of sideronatrite and other mineral precipitates in Acid Sulfate Soils. 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Soil Solutions for a Changing World

Locality: Nichterlein's quarry, Lower Paper Mills Road, Fyansford, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Shayan, Ahmad (1984) Hisingerite material from a basalt quarry near Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Clays and Clay Minerals, Vol 32, No.4, pp 272-278.

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Reference: George Baker (1942) The heavy minerals of some Victorian granitic rocks. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 54 (2): 196-223.

Locality: Mount Moliagul, Moliagul, Central Goldfields Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Liddy, J.C. (1974) Exploration License No. 227 Mount Moliagul, Vict. : Summary report of exploration to date on the area covered under the lease and a suggestion of further work that could be carried out to develop the area. Department of Energy and Minerals, Victoria, Expired Mineral Exploration Reports File

Locality: Rosslynne Reservoir, Gisborne, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Judy Rowe collection

Locality: Steiglitz, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection

Locality: Antimony occurrence, Inglewood, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Birch, W. D. (2015) Native antimony from Inglewood, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy Vol. 17 #2, 88-90.

Locality: Moama meteorite, Womboota, Cadell Co., New South Wales, Australia

Description: Composition En55Fs41.6Or3.4

Reference: Lovering, J. F. (1975) The Moama eucrite: A pyroxene-plagioclase adcumulate. Meteoritics 10 (2): 101-114. (June 1975)

Localities: Reported from at least 14 localities in this region.

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "A pegmatite boulder containing patches of massive chalcocite up to 4 cm across was found in April 1995. The chalcocite occupies cavities between large orthoclase crystals. Alteration of the chalcocite has produced a suite of secondary copper phosphate minerals in small cavities. In some cavities are colourless, waxy, platy to tabular crystals, up to about 1.0 mm across, which have been identified as a polymorph of silver iodide, probably iodargyrite."

Reference: Jambor, J.L., Pertsev, N.N., Roberts, A.C. (2000) New mineral names. American Mineralogist: 85: 1321-1325.; Birch, W.D. (1996) Portlandite and other recent mineral discoveries in the granites at Lake Boga, and Wycheproof and Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy: 2(2): 47-50.

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Description: Found as small blebs in chromite and pyroxene. Unusually Ni-poor (~.15wt%)[for meteorites]

Reference: Lovering, J. F. (1975) The Moama eucrite: A pyroxene-plagioclase adcumulate. Meteoritics 10 (2): 101-114. (June 1975)

Locality: Wedderburn meteorite, Wedderburn, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Scott, E. R. D., & Agrell, S. O. (1971). The occurrence of carbides in iron meteorites. Meteoritics, 6, 312-313.

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Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection

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Reference: Wilson, C.J.L., Osborne, D.J., Robinson, J.A., Miller, J. (2016) Structural constraints and localization of gold mineralization in leather jacket lodes Ballarat Victoria Australia, Economic Geology, 111(5), 1073-1098.

Locality: Coimadai Antimony Mine, Pyrites Creek (Coimadai Creek; Pyretes Creek; Pyrete Creek), Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia

Locality: Mount Hope, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: Porphyritic in K-spar, with flow alignment and cumulate textures common in the granite. The K-spars in pegmatitic patches have pinkish colouration.

Reference: Ryan Eagle personal observation 2016

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "At Lake Boga, cream to pale yellow spherical clusters up to 0.3 mm across of delicate platy crystals of kidwellite have been found in miarolitic cavities. On a few specimens the mineral forms a continuous furry coating on the cavity walls. When broken, the spheres have a fibrous silky appearance in contrast to the waxy, globular, cream or pale yellow clay mineral which may be associated. Kidwellite occurs with cyrilovite, turquoise/chalcosiderite, torbernite or saleeite."

Reference: Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.

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Description: "Kunatite was first found about 1990, and occurs on only 7 or 8 small pieces of granite matrix, which may have been the contents of a single miarolitic cavity. kunatite from Lake Boga occurs as acicular to lath-like microcrystals that are rapidially intergrown to form compactto slightly open spheres, hemispheres and flattened sprays up to about 0.25mm across. Individual fibrous crystals are up to 30 micron long and 5 micron thick. The only supergene mineral associated with kunatite is chalcosiderite/turquoise. Thin blades of manganoan ferberite occur on several of the specimens, but this is regarded as an accidental association. The matrix minerals are smoky quartz, white albite, cream orthoclase and muscovite."

Reference: S.J.Mills, U.Kolitsch, W.D.Birch J.Sejkora. Australian J. Mineralogy 14, 3-12(2008)

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Description: "Lakebogaite occurs as bright lemon-yellow transparent prismatic crystals up to 0.4 mm across. The crystals have a vitreous luster and a pale yellow streak. It is associated with meurigite-Na, torbernite and saleeite on a matrix of microcline, albite, smoky quarz, and muscovite."

Reference: Mills, S.J., Birch, W.D., Kolitsch, U., Mumme, W.G., Grey, I.E. (2008) Lakebogaite, CaNaFe3+2H(UO2)2(PO4)4(OH)2(H2O)8, a new uranyl phosphate with a unique crystal structure from Victoria, Australia. American Mineralogist: 93: 691–697.; Mills, S. J. & Birch, W. D. (2010) Uranmineralien aus dem Lake-Boga-Granit, Victoria, Australien. Mineralien-Welt, 21(3), 62–67. (In German); IMA website.

Locality: Malone Mine (Malone main shaft), Mount Egerton, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Leucophosphite from Lake Boga forms hemispherical clusters up to 1 mm across consisting of translucent, pale pink to brownish pink, tabular crystals which appear slightly twisted. They occur with globular cyrilovite, kidwellite and a pale yellow clay mineral in miarolitic cavities."

Reference: Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.

Locality: Tylden quarry, Tylden, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "One specimen of levyne has been collected from the Tylden quarry. It consists of thin, roughly hexagonal, translucent plates up to 2 mm in a cavity lined with greenish montmorillonite. The crystals are twinned with (0001) forming the contact plane. Phillipsite crystals are found on the specimen although not in the same cavity as the levyne." The levyne is not analysed, but given the nature of the other zeolites at Tylden it is likely that it is the Levyne-Ca type.

Reference: W.D.Birch 1989. Zeolites of Victoria, The Mineralogical Association Of Victoria No. 2 pp. 75-84

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Reference: Henry, D. A (1988): Minerals from the Clunes Gold Field. Austral. Mineral. 3 (3), 43-52.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Crusts and hemispherical tufts and sprays of transparent dark green to olive green libethenite crystals occur in miarolitic cavities in the Lake Boga granite. Crystals are prismatic and up to 2.5 mm long, ranging from finely fibrous needles to more stubby individuals which are well-terminated. Small cavities may be completely lined with inwardly pointing libethenite crystals. The minerals most frequently associated with libethenite are turquoise/chalcosiderite, ulrichite, pseudomalachite and sampleite."

Reference: Jambor, J.L., Pertsev, N.N., Roberts, A.C. (2000) New mineral names. American Mineralogist: 85: 1321-1325.; Mills, S.J., Birch, W.D., Kolitsch, U., Mumme, W.G., Grey, I.E. (2008) Lakebogaite, CaNaFe3+2H(UO2)2(PO4)4(OH)2(H2O)8, a new uranyl phosphate with a unique crystal structure from Victoria, Australia. American Mineralogist: 93: 691–697.; Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.; Henry, D.A., Birch, W.D. (1998) Sampleite and associated minerals from Lake Boga granite quarry, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineralogist: 3: 135-148.

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Reference: The Blackwood-Trentham Gold-Field. Blackwood (1861): Geological and Mining Features, Bulletin 18

Locality: Rixon Sandstone Quarries, Campbells Creek, Castlemaine, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria, Australia

Habit: dendritical

Colour: black

Reference: P. Sutton (2007): Cyrilovite and natrodufrenite from near Campbells Creek, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 13(2), 65-71.

Locality: Dowd's propect, Cornella, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

Localities: Reported from at least 6 localities in this region.

Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection

Localities: Reported from at least 7 localities in this region.

Reference: George Baker (1942) The heavy minerals of some Victorian granitic rocks. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 54 (2): 196-223.

Locality: Woodend Province, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Ewart, A., Chappell, B. W., & Le Maitre, R. W. (1985). Aspects of the mineralogy and chemistry of the intermediate‐silicic Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia. Part 1: Introduction and geochemistry. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 359-382. Dasch, E. J., & Millar, D. J. (1977). Age and strontium‐isotope geochemistry of differentiated rocks from the newer Volcanics, MT Macedon Area, Victoria, Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 24(3-4), 195-201. Edwards, A. B. (1938). The Tertiary volcanic rocks of central Victoria. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 94(1-4), 243-320. Ewart, A. (1985). Aspects of the mineralogy and chemistry of the intermediate‐silicic Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia. Part 2: Mineralogy and petrogenesis. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 383-413. Ferguson, A. K. (1978). A mineralogical investigation of some trachytic lavas and associated pegmatoids from camel's hump and turritable falls, central Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 25(3-4), 185-197. Wellman, P. (1974). Potassium‐argon ages on the Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Victoria, Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 21(4), 359-376. Knutson, J., & Nicholls, I. A. (1989). Macedon–Trentham. Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand, 136-137.

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Reference: EDWARDS, J., WOHLT, K.E., SLATER, K.R.,OLSHINA, A., AND HUTCHINSON, D.F., 1998. Heathcote and parts of Woodend and Echuca1:100 000 map area geological report. Geological Survey of Victoria Report 108.

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Type Locality: Nuggety Reef, Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Palache, C., H. Berman, and C. Frondel (1944) Dana’s system of mineralogy, (7th edition), v. I, 95–96.; Ciobanu, C. L., Birch, W. D., Cook, N. J., Pring, A., & Grundler, P. V. (2010). Petrogenetic significance of Au–Bi–Te–S associations: the example of Maldon, Central Victorian gold province, Australia. Lithos, 116(1), 1-17.

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Reference: Judy Rowe Collection

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Reference: Judy Rowe Collection

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Reference: Elliott, P.J. (1977) Explanatory notes on the Ballarat goldfield geological maps. Geological Survey of Victoria Report 51 (1977/11), Department of Minerals & Energy, Victoria.

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Description: "Mesolite from South Clunes has been identified by X-ray diffraction on specimens in the Museum of Victoria collection. The mesolite forms a soft white crust of needles often completely lining the vugs in the basalt. It also forms small tufts and sprays of acicular crystals up to 1 mm long in several vugs. Phacolite twins, which have crystalized after the mesolite, are often found in the mesolite lined vugs."

Reference: Henry, D. A (1988): Minerals from the Clunes Gold Field. Austral. Mineral. 3 (3), 43-52

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Specimen in the Museum of Victoria collection

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Habit: As clusters to 4 mm.

Colour: lemon yellow

Description: "The metanatroautunite forms crystals and clusters up to 4 mm across on limonite-coated joint planes and in miarolitic cavities. Crystals may appear to be aggregates of intergrown plates with slightly rounded edges. In some crystals with more blocky habits, these plates may be separated. The upper surface of these crystals tend to be slightly concave and crinkled partly due to dehydration. Rare intergrowths with saleeite or torbernite occur. Metanatroautunite is initially difficult to distinguish from saleeite at Lake Boga. However, metanatroautunite tends to be translucent with a pearly or slightly greasy lustre, and be bright lemon yellow. This colour may be slightly more intense on the edge than on the upper face. Saleeite at Lake Boga is generally transparent and more golden yellow."

Reference: Mills, S.J. (2004) Metanatroautunite ('sodium autunite') from the Lake Boga Granite, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy: 10(1).; Mills, S.J., Birch, W.D. (2010) Uranmineralien aus dem Lake-Boga-Granit, Victoria, Australien. Mineralien-Welt, 21(3), 62–67. (In German).

Locality: Iron deposit, Mt Kooyoora, Brenanah, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia

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Habit: Spherical aggregates of needles-llike crystals

Colour: yellowish brown

Description: These crystals give an X-ray diffraction pattern similar to meurigite and the Na-rich environment of the locality suggests these will be the sodium-rich analogue of meurigite. Chemical analysis is required to confirm the identification.

Reference: P. Sutton (2007): Cyrilovite and natrodufrenite from near Campbells Creek, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 13(2), 65-71.

Locality: Sultan Reef (Sultan Mine), Blackwood, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: The Blackwood-Trentham Gold-Field. Blackwood (1861): Geological and Mining Features, Bulletin 18

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Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

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Reference: Frecheville, R.J., and Carne Ross, J. (1879): Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 10, ccxlix-ccxlv

Locality: Mount Moliagul, Moliagul, Central Goldfields Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Liddy, J.C. (1972) Exploration License No. 227 Mount Moliagul, Vict. : Summary report on exploration carried out to date on the license area. Department of Energy and Minerals, Victoria, Expired Mineral Exploration Reports File

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Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Mills, S. J. & Birch, W. D. (2010) Uranmineralien aus dem Lake-Boga-Granit, Victoria, Australien. Mineralien-Welt, 21(3), 62–67. (In German)

Locality: Parwan lava caves, Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia

Colour: off-white

Description: In the Parwan Cave montgomeryite occurs in the clay-Taranakite matrix as off-white, straw-like crusts, with a pearly lustre up to 3 mm thick. Montgomeryite also forms spongy aggregates of elongated, platy, cream colored crystals up to 0.5 mm long, and loose clusters of white to cream spheres, between 0.1 and 0.3 mm across, consisting of platy crystals. Another variety of montgomeryite occurs as thin, light-yellow crusts, composed of slightly botryoidal rosettes of tiny plates.

Reference: Birch, W.D. & Henry, D.J., 1993, Phosphate Minerals of Victoria, The Mineralogical Society of Victoria, Special Publication No. 3

Locality: Parwan lava caves, Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia

Colour: brown

Description: Montmorillonite forms rich brown waxy masses in the cave floor.

Reference: Birch, W.D. & Henry, D.J., 1993, Phosphate Minerals of Victoria, The Mineralogical Society of Victoria, Special Publication No. 3

Localities: Reported from at least 19 localities in this region.

Reference: Ciobanu, C. L., Birch, W. D., Cook, N. J., Pring, A., & Grundler, P. V. (2010) Petrogenetic significance of Au–Bi–Te–S associations: the example of Maldon, Central Victorian gold province, Australia. Lithos, 116(1), 1-17.

Locality: 'Selwynite' occurrence, Mount Ida, Heathcote, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: McAndrew, J. & Marsden, M.A.H., 1968. A regional guide to Victorian geology. Geology Department, University of Melbourne.

Localities: Reported from at least 11 localities in this region.

Reference: Ciobanu, C. L., Birch, W. D., Cook, N. J., Pring, A., & Grundler, P. V. (2010) Petrogenetic significance of Au–Bi–Te–S associations: the example of Maldon, Central Victorian gold province, Australia. Lithos, 116(1), 1-17.

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Habit: Spherical

Colour: greenish- and dark-blue to almost black

Reference: P. Sutton (2007): Cyrilovite and natrodufrenite from near Campbells Creek, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 13(2), 65-71.

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Description: Note: the reference by Spencer refers to another reference: "G. B. Pritchard, Victorian Naturalist, 1901, vol. xviii, p. 63. A zeolite occurring as white, radial aggregates in the decomposed basalt of the Moorabool valley, Victoria".

Reference: Spencer (1903): Mineral. Mag. 13, 373

Locality: Moorabool River, Maude, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: Note: the reference by Spencer refers to another reference: "G. B. Pritchard, Victorian Naturalist, 1901, vol. xviii, p. 63. A zeolite occurring as white, radial aggregates in the decomposed basalt of the Moorabool valley, Victoria".

Reference: Spencer (1903): Mineral. Mag. 13, 373

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Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection

Localities: Reported from at least 19 localities in this region.

Reference: specimen in collection

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Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Localities: Reported from at least 13 localities in this region.

Reference: specimen in collection

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Habit: Globular grains.

Colour: White

Description: Parwanite occurs as clusters up to 0.2 mm across of pseudo hexagonal platy crystals lining fissures and cavities in the clay/taranakite matrix. It has also crystalized on the brown clay fragments enclosed in the matrix. The crystals are white to cream and have a pearly lustre.

Reference: Birch, W.D. & Henry, D.J., 1993, Phosphate Minerals of Victoria, The Mineralogical Society of Victoria, Special Publication No. 3 Willian D. Birch, Stuart J. Mills, Karolina Schwendtner, Allan Pring, John A. Webb, Ralph Segnit and John A. Watts (2007): "Parwanite: a new hydrated Na-Mg-Al-phosphate from a lava cave at Parwan, Victoria, Australia". Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 13, 23-30.

Locality: Silver Spoon prospect, Mount Camel, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

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Reference: Ryan Eagle field collected 2018

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Description: "At Tylden, phillipsite is relatively rare although transparent to translucent twinned crystals have been collected. They occur as fourlings or eightlings up to 3 mm long."

Reference: W.D.Birch 1989. Zeolites of Victoria, The Mineralogical Association Of Victoria No. 2 pp. 75-84,100

Locality: Trentham Falls, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "At Trentham Falls quarry some attractive phillipsites have been collected. They often occur on a brown clay and are associated with chabazite and small spheres of siderite. The crystals up to 5mm show twinning and they are quite transparent with very few fractures."

Reference: W.D.Birch 1989. Zeolites of Victoria, The Mineralogical Association Of Victoria No. 2 pp. 75-84,100; J.D.Hollis. 1979. Some little known zeolite localities in central Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.21 April 1979, pp. 101-102

Localities: Reported from at least 6 localities in this region.

Reference: Henry, D. A., Australian Journal of Mineralogy, Vol.1 No.2 , 13-15.

Localities: Reported from at least 9 localities in this region.

Reference: Ciobanu, C. L., Birch, W. D., Cook, N. J., Pring, A., & Grundler, P. V. (2010) Petrogenetic significance of Au–Bi–Te–S associations: the example of Maldon, Central Victorian gold province, Australia. Lithos, 116(1), 1-17.

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Locality: Moama meteorite, Womboota, Cadell Co., New South Wales, Australia

Reference: Lovering, J. F. (1975) The Moama eucrite: A pyroxene-plagioclase adcumulate. Meteoritics 10 (2): 101-114. (June 1975)

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Description: The plagioclases here tend to have weathered-out calcic cores.

Reference: Ryan Eagle personal observation 2016

Locality: Dowd's propect, Cornella, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: Specimen was not in situ. Confirmation needed. See discussion in http://www.mindat.org/mesg-7-55384.html "A pale grey chert like mass, measuring about 45 x 30 x 25 cm was found in August 1995. The specimen had apparently been dislodged from where it had been enclosed in granite in the northeast corner of the quarr, about 6 metres from the top of the eastern wall. Thin quartz/calcite veinlets cut the portlandite."

Reference: Birch, W.D. (1996) Portlandite and other recent mineral discoveries in the granites at Lake Boga, and Wycheproof and Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy: 2(2): 47-50.

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Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Locality: Lake Cooper quarry, Corop, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Locality: Dowd's propect, Cornella, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

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Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Pseudomalachite occurs as irregular globular aggregates and, more rarely, rough crystals up to a few mm across, in cavities in the Lake Boga granite. It is pearly to vitreous, and transparent to translucent dark blueish green. It is often associated libethenite and ulrichite. The mineral also occurs as massive cavity fillings and scaly coatings on joint planes, where it its often seen with sampleiite, and may also occur very rarely as layers between cleavage flakes of muscovite."

Reference: Jambor, J.L., Pertsev, N.N., Roberts, A.C. (2000) New mineral names. American Mineralogist: 85: 1321-1325.; Mills, S.J., Birch, W.D., Kolitsch, U., Mumme, W.G., Grey, I.E. (2008) Lakebogaite, CaNaFe3+2H(UO2)2(PO4)4(OH)2(H2O)8, a new uranyl phosphate with a unique crystal structure from Victoria, Australia. American Mineralogist: 93: 691–697.; Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.; Henry, D.A., Birch, W.D. (1998) Sampleite and associated minerals from Lake Boga granite quarry, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineralogist: 3: 135-148.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Mills, S.J. (2004)

Locality: Lake Cooper quarry, Corop, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: crocoite.com

Localities: Reported from at least 69 localities in this region.

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Locality: Rochester Shire Quarry, Rochester, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Museum Victoria Collection M 37653

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Description: Orthopyroxene & Clinopyroxene, Ca-rich & Ca-poor pyroxenes: Hypersthene w. Augite lamellae most noticeable, but pigeonite also present

Reference: Lovering, J. F. (1975) The Moama eucrite: A pyroxene-plagioclase adcumulate. Meteoritics 10 (2): 101-114. (June 1975)

Localities: Reported from at least 8 localities in this region.

Reference: Ciobanu, C. L., Birch, W. D., Cook, N. J., Pring, A., & Grundler, P. V. (2010) Petrogenetic significance of Au–Bi–Te–S associations: the example of Maldon, Central Victorian gold province, Australia. Lithos, 116(1), 1-17.

Localities: Reported from at least 157 localities in this region.

Locality: Farlow & Co. Claim, Prince of Wales Reef, Fryerstown, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria, Australia

Localities:

Locality: Allendale, Creswick, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Hills, E. (1957) Fossiliferous Tertiary resin from Allendale, Victoria. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, vol. 69 p15ff

Locality: Port Phillip Mine, Clunes, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Rhodochrosite was first recorded in 1866 as 'diallogite' from the Port Phillip Company Mine. The rhodochrosite forms an attractive pinkish mauve to pinkish brown crust on manganese oxides coating quartz. Spherical globes up to 3 mm across occur, with broken surfaces showing a concentric growth structure."

Reference: D.A.Henry 1988. Minerals from the Clunes Goldfields. Australian Mineralogist Vol.3 April/June, 1988

Locality: Camels Hump, Mount Macedon, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Dark bluish green irregular masses of rockbridgeite have been found as earthy fillings and globular linings in miarolitic cavities up to about 1 cm across in a medium-grained aplitic phase of the Lake Boga Granite. Hemispheres and globular crusts of transparent yellow cyrilovite frequently coat the rockbridgeite."

Reference: Birch, W.D. (1996) Portlandite and other recent mineral discoveries in the granites at Lake Boga, and Wycheproof and Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy: 2(2): 47-50.

Localities: Reported from at least 12 localities in this region.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Saleeite crystals occur in miarolitic cavities and on limonite-encrusted joint planes in the Lake Boga granite. Pale to lemon or greenish yellow translucent to transparent platy crystals occur as fan-like clusters or flattened aggregates. They are usually less than 3 mm on edge but exceptional crystals may reach 9 mm. Thick tabular and unusual prismatic crystals are less common. Saleeite may overgrow torbernite crystals at Lake Boga."

Reference: Mills, S.J., Birch, W.D., Kolitsch, U., Mumme, W.G., Grey, I.E. (2008) Lakebogaite, CaNaFe3+2H(UO2)2(PO4)4(OH)2(H2O)8, a new uranyl phosphate with a unique crystal structure from Victoria, Australia. American Mineralogist: 93: 691–697.; Mills, S.J., Birch, W.D. (2010) Uranmineralien aus dem Lake-Boga-Granit, Victoria, Australien. Mineralien-Welt, 21(3), 62–67. (In German); Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.; Henry, D.A., Birch, W.D. (1988) Sampleite and associated minerals from Lake Boga granite quarry, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineralogist: 3: 135-148.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "This is one of the most attractive of the rare phosphates at Lake Boga, occurring as vivid sky blue, micaceous aggregates on joint planes and platy to powdery cavity infillings in the granite. Groups of free standing tabular transparent blue crystals up to 0.5 mm high are frequently observed. Sampleite is most closely associated with pseudomalachite, but may also be found with libethenite, turquoise/chalcosiderite, cyrilovite and more rarely, ulrichite."

Reference: Henry, D.A., Birch, W.D. (1988) Sampleite and associated minerals from the Lake Boga granite quarry, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineralogist: 3: 135-148.; Giester, G., Kolitsch, U., Leverett, P., Turner, P., Williams, P.A. (2007) The crystal structures of lavendulan, sampleite, and a new polymorph of sampleite. European Journal of Mineralogy: 19: 75-93.; Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.

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Reference: Henry, D. A., Australian Journal of Mineralogy, Vol. 1 No. 2, 13.

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Reference: No reference listed

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Reference: Frecheville, R.J., and Carne Ross, J. (1879): Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 10, ccxlix-ccxlv

Locality: Wedderburn meteorite, Wedderburn, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Edwards, A. B. (1953) The Wedderburn meteoritic iron. Proc. R. Soc. Viet. 64, 73-76.

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Locality: 'Selwynite' occurrence, Mount Ida, Heathcote, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Locality: Antimony occurrence, Inglewood, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Birch, W. D. (2015) Native antimony from Inglewood, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy Vol. 17 #2, 88-90.

Locality: Red Hill, Heathcote, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Collection of RJ Martin

Localities: Reported from at least 18 localities in this region.

Reference: Henry, D. A., Australian Journal of Mineralogy, Vol.1 No.2 , 13-15.

Locality: Burnt Creek, Dunolly, Central Goldfields Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Mark Raven , Rob Fitzpatrick , Paul Shand and Stuart McClure, 2010, Minerals diagnostic of acid sulfate soils. Extended Abstracts – 21st Australian Clay Minerals Conference – Brisbane, August 2010 Rob Fitzpatrick, Paul Shand, Mark Raven and Stuart McClure, 2010, Occurrence and environmental significance of sideronatrite and other mineral precipitates in Acid Sulfate Soils. 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Soil Solutions for a Changing World

Locality: Dowd's propect, Cornella, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

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Reference: EDWARDS, J., WOHLT, K.E., SLATER, K.R.,OLSHINA, A., AND HUTCHINSON, D.F., 1998. Heathcote and parts of Woodend and Echuca1:100 000 map area geological report. Geological Survey of Victoria Report 108.

Locality: Nichterlein's quarry, Lower Paper Mills Road, Fyansford, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Shayan, Ahmad (1984) Hisingerite material from a basalt quarry near Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Clays and Clay Minerals, Vol 32, No.4, pp 272-278.

Localities: Reported from at least 16 localities in this region.

Reference: Bierlein, F. P., Fuller, T., Stüwe, K., Arne, D. C., & Keays, R. R. (1998). Wallrock alteration associated with turbidite-hosted gold deposits. Examples from the Palaeozoic Lachlan Fold Belt in central Victoria, Australia. Ore Geology Reviews, 13(1), 345-380.

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Reference: Birch, W.D. and Henry, D.A. (1999) Gem Minerals of Victoria. Mineralogical Society of Victoria - Special Publication No.4 (120 pages).

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Description: "Colourless to pale pink, translucent, bladed stellerite, without crystal terminations filled 90% of the aggregate in which the babingtonite occurs."

Reference: W.D.Birch 1983. Babingtonite, fluorapophyllite and sphene from Harcourt, Victoria, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, Sept. 1983, Vol.47,pp.377-380

Locality: Dowd's propect, Cornella, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

Locality: Coimadai Antimony Mine, Pyrites Creek (Coimadai Creek; Pyretes Creek; Pyrete Creek), Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia

Localities: Reported from at least 11 localities in this region.

Localities:

Reference: Newbery, C. (1880) Some New Localities in Victoria. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria Art VI pp144-145

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Reference: No reference listed

Localities:

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Locality: Wedderburn meteorite, Wedderburn, Loddon Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Edwards, A. B. (1953) The Wedderburn meteoritic iron. Proc. R. Soc. Viet. 64, 73-76.

Locality: Red Hill, Heathcote, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: EDWARDS, J., WOHLT, K.E., SLATER, K.R.,OLSHINA, A., AND HUTCHINSON, D.F., 1998. Heathcote and parts of Woodend and Echuca1:100 000 map area geological report. Geological Survey of Victoria Report 108.

Locality: Parwan lava caves, Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia

Colour: white to cream

Description: The massive white to cream chalky material at Parwan, when examined by X-ray diffraction soon after removal from the cave, consisted of a mixture of poorly crystalline taranakite and a clay mineral, possibly kaolinite. However after several years the material is now largely X-ray amorphous and it appears the taranakite is unstable when it dries out. The taranakite is the most common mineral at Parwan after the clay, and is associated with most of the other minerals.

Reference: Birch, W.D. & Henry, D.J., 1993, Phosphate Minerals of Victoria, The Mineralogical Society of Victoria, Special Publication No. 3

Locality: Fosterville Goldfield, Fosterville, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Crocodile Gold Corp (2013), Report on the Mineral Resources & Mineral Reserves of the Fosterville Gold Mine Victoria, Australia

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Reference: No reference listed

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Reference: Birch, W.D. (1989) Zeolites of Victoria. Mineralogical Society of Victoria - Special Publication No.2 (110 pages).

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Description: "A number of small groups of elongated, wedge-shaped titanate crystals, up to about 1 mm long, occur intimately associated with the babingtonite. They are transparent and pleochroic from nearly colourless to pale brown."

Reference: Birch, W.D. (1983) Babingtonite, fluorapophyllite and sphene from Harcourt, Victoria, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, Sept. 1983, 47, 377-380.

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Reference: No reference listed

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Localities:

Reference: Richards 2009

Locality: Dowd's propect, Cornella, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

Localities: Reported from at least 7 localities in this region.

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

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Description: As small blebs in chromite and pyroxene

Reference: Lovering, J. F. (1975) The Moama eucrite: A pyroxene-plagioclase adcumulate. Meteoritics 10 (2): 101-114. (June 1975)

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Description: "This attractive mineral was first collected at the Lake Boga quarry in the mid-1980s. A zone a few metres across at the base of the east wall of the quarry, at a depth of around 20 metres has yielded all the ulrichite so far collected. Ulrichite forms delicate radiating sprays of translucent to transparent, pale green to bright lime green, needle-like crystals up to 1 mm long and 0.05 mm thick. They occur in small close up, irregular miarolitic cavities in a fine-grained equigranular phase of the Lake Boga granite. Some of the cavities are lined or partly filled with a glistening reddish brown clay mineral. Ulrichite is amongst the earliest of the secondary minerals to crystalise at Lake Boga and occurs most frequently with turquoise/chalcosiderite. It is also observed with cyrilovite, libethenite, pseudomalachite and rarely, with torbernite. It has also been found on etched fluorapatite crystals."

Reference: Birch, W.D., Mumme, W.G., and Segnit, E.R. (1988) Ulrichite: a new copper calcium uranium phosphate from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineralogist, 3(3), 125-131.; England, B.M. (1991) The State of the Science: Scanning Electron Microscopy. Mineralogical Record, 22(2), 123-132 (SEM image of ulrichite on quartz from the Lake Boga quarry on p. 127).; Clark, A.M. (1993) Hey's mineral index: mineral species, varieties, and synonyms.; Birch, W.D. and Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication N°. 3: 14-27.; Henry, D.A. and Birch, W.D. (1988) Sampleite and associated minerals from Lake Boga granite quarry, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineralogist Vol. 3 Oct.-Dec. 1988, 135-148.

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Giester, G., Kolitsch, U., Leverett, P., Turner, P., Williams, P.A. (2007): The crystal structures of lavendulan, sampleite, and a new polymorph of sampleite. Eur. J. Mineral.: 19(1): 75-93

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Reference: Mills, S.J., Birch, W.D., Kolitsch, U., Mumme, W.G., Grey, I.E. (2008) Lakebogaite, CaNaFe3+2H(UO2)2(PO4)4(OH)2(H2O)8, a new uranyl phosphate with a unique crystal structure from Victoria, Australia. American Mineralogist: 93: 691–697.; Mills, S. J. & Birch, W. D. (2010) Uranmineralien aus dem Lake-Boga-Granit, Victoria, Australien. Mineralien-Welt, 21(3), 62–67. (In German)

Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Reference: No reference listed

Locality: Dowd's propect, Cornella, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

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Locality: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Colourless to white, prismatic wavellite crystals up to 1 mm long occur rarely, forming fibrous radiating aggregates in cavities with pale blue turquoise. The mineral has also been found as flattened radiating aggregates of pale blue crystals on joint planes in the granite."

Reference: Birch, W.D., Henry, D.A. (1993) Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3: 14-27.; Henry, D.A., Birch, W.D. (1988) Sampleite and associated minerals from Lake Boga granite quarry, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineralogist: 3: 135-148.

Localities:

Reference: Steve Sorrell Collection

Locality: Dowd's propect, Cornella, Campaspe Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: A. R. Seymon, 2006, Nickel Propectivity in Victoria, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2006/3

Locality: Allen's Creek, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia