Murray Basin, Australiai

Regional Level Types
Murray Basin	Basin
Australia	Country

Locality: Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Locality: Bendigo prospect, Warnes, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia

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

Description: "Albite, previously recorded as oligoclase, forms white to translucent wedge-shaped crystals up to 2.5 cm long in cavities with quartz and orthoclase."

Locality: Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, Australia

Locality: Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Description: "In a pegmatoidal phase of the leucetite at the Cosgrove quarry analcime has been identified forming subhedral, turbid crystals possibly replacing primary leucite. Analcime also forms white, opaque prisms about 1.5mm long replacing nepheline in vesicles in the leucetite."

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Description: "Bipyramidal bluish black crystals of anatase up to 1 mm long have been found in cavities in the Lake Boga granite. They may be associated with kidwellite."

Locality: WIM 150 deposit, Horsham, Rural City of Horsham, Victoria, Australia

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Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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

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Locality: Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: Small flakes of autunite were originally recorded from Wycherproof in 1976. Ten years later it had been found as pale to bright yellow platy crystals up to 2mm on edge in a pegmatite matrix. Some of the more translucent crystals may be meta-autunite, and it is also difficult to distinguish between autunite and saleeite at this locality without chemical tests.

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Description: "Powdery coatings, fibrous tuffs and thin films of malachite and azurite have been found on joints in the granite."

Locality: Devil's Elbow (Sharp Point), Nampoo Station, Wentworth, Wentworth Co., New South Wales, Australia

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."

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

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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."

Locality: Bendigo prospect, Warnes, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia

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

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

Locality: Bendigo prospect, Warnes, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia

Locality: Bendigo prospect, Warnes, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia

Locality: Cocks Eldorado dredge, Eldorado, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia

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

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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."

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Description: "Small grains of chalcopyrite are relatively common throughout the granite. In one cavity a crystal measuring 1.2 cm and coated with sooty blue chalcocite or covellite was collected. Grains of chalcopyrite or covellite was collected. Grains of chalcopyrite in the granite are often ringed with yellowish alteration halos, and on some surfaces thin stains of azurite and malachite occur. The chalcopyrite is the most probable source for copper in the later-formed phosphates and uranyl-phosphates. Brownish masses consisting of a mixture of iron oxides and chalcocite replacing chalcopyrite occur in some veins and cavities."

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."

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

Locality: Karoonda meteorite, Karoonda, District Council of Karoonda East Murray, South Australia, Australia

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."

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

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

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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Description: Clinopyroxene — The dominant pyroxene is Ca-poor and frequently twinned clinopyroxene (Fs~20) [labelled 'clinohypersthene' by Mason & Wiik].

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

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Locality: Cocks Eldorado dredge, Eldorado, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia

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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."

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."

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Locality: Wheal Alfred (Wheal William; Pine Hut Mine; MC 4963 & 4964), Cambrai, Mid Murray Council, South Australia, Australia

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Description: "Cyrilovite forms bright sparkling yellow drusy crusts and dull brownish yellow globules in miarolitic cavities in the Lake Boga granite. The crusts are made up of transparent golden yellow crystals up to 0.05 mm across."

Locality: Pinnaroo meteorite, Pinnaroo, Southern Mallee District Council, South Australia, Australia

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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

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

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Locality: Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Attractive honey-brown to pinkish brown, tapering prismatic crystals of eosphorite occur in cavities in the Wycherproof pegmatite veins. Drusy crusts of eosphorite crystals up to 0.2mm have been found in a vertical seam in the adjacent granite. In the pegmatites, the larger crystals often form sheaf-like aggregates, with individual crystals up to 1cm long. The eosphorite crystals often appear dull due to a thin coating of cyrilovite."

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Locality: Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, Australia

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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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.

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Description: "Attractive well-formed fluorapatite crystals are found in miarolitic cavities, particularly in the upper levels of the quarry. In general, crystals have simple hexagonal to near circular outlines, and range from tabular to blocky and, less often to prismatic. Complex terminations are absent, and crystals usually have a flat lustrous pinacoids face, often showing growth outlines. Some crystals show weakly developed low angle pyramidal faces. The prism faces are almost always striated. The largest crystal collected include tabular varieties 4.5 cm across and 1 cm thick, and prisms 2.5 cm long and 1.2 cm across. Colour in the larger crystals generally ranges from shades of dull greyish to bluish green and deep opaque blue. Most crystals show colour zoning involving these shades, as well as near colourless and pale purple zones. The most common scheme is for pale blue translucent crystals to have dark blue bands at the upper and lower pinacoids. Sparklings of smaller crystals from opaque cream or grey to colourless or transparent blue or mauve are also found. Apatite has also been found rarely at Lake Boga as lustrous, fibrous globular dark green linings to cavities."

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

Description: "Thin seams of purple fluorite have been found on joint planes in the granite."

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)

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Locality: Cocks Eldorado dredge, Eldorado, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia

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

Locality: Barratta meteorite, Barratta, Townsend Co., New South Wales, Australia

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

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Localities: Reported from at least 28 localities in this region.

Habit: Combination of l {111} and e {103} faces. Rounded appearance.

Colour: Reddish

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Locality: Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, Australia

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Locality: Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, Australia

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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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."

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Locality: Bendigo prospect, Warnes, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia

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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."

Locality: Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Rhombohedral, vitreous, grey blue crystals up to 0.5mm acros occurring with eosphorite and cyrilovite in a 1cm wide miarolic cavity have been identified as kosnarite."

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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."

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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."

Locality: Pinnaroo meteorite, Pinnaroo, Southern Mallee District Council, South Australia, Australia

Description: After some initial missteps, acetone washing was used to quell further deterioration.

Locality: Tepko, Mid Murray Council, South Australia, Australia

Colour: Blue

Description: Blue crystals in pegmatitic granite. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection.

Locality: Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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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."

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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."

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Locality: Pinnaroo meteorite, Pinnaroo, Southern Mallee District Council, South Australia, Australia

Locality: Milne Lake, Coorong Lakes, Coorong District Council, South Australia, Australia

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

Locality: Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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Description: "Powdery coatings, fibrous tuffs and thin films of malachite and azurite have been found on joints in the granite."

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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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."

Locality: Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "A few opaque dull-green microcrystals of metatorbernite have been found in small etch cavities."

Locality: Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: Originally thought to be a mineral resembling potassian kidwellite (Birch 1994) has now been confirmed as meurigite-K. "At Wycheproof, meurigite occurs as yellow spheres and hemispheres up to about 0.2 mm across, with a silky white to cream fibrous internal structure. It is accompanied by rockbridgeite, cyrilovite and leucophosphite in small etch cavities in the granite pegmatite veins."

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

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

Locality: Springwood Salt Lake, Tara Co., New South Wales, Australia

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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Description: "Very small platy crystals of molybdenite, usually less than 0.1 mm across, have been found in a few cavities in the granite."

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

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Locality: Karoonda meteorite, Karoonda, District Council of Karoonda East Murray, South Australia, Australia

Locality: Karoonda meteorite, Karoonda, District Council of Karoonda East Murray, South Australia, Australia

Locality: Devil's Elbow (Sharp Point), Nampoo Station, Wentworth, Wentworth Co., New South Wales, Australia

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Locality: Kewell deposit, Stawell, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria, Australia

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

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Locality: Barratta meteorite, Barratta, Townsend Co., New South Wales, Australia

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

Description: "Specimens showing dull greyish green globular coatings, occurring very rarely on joints stained with brown iron hydroxides were found in 1994.. he crusts have a slightly silky appearance due to their finely fibrous nature. Scanning electron micrographs show the globules consist of tiny radiating prismatic crystallites."

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Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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

Locality: Pinnaroo meteorite, Pinnaroo, Southern Mallee District Council, South Australia, Australia

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

Description: "Rare hyalite has been recorded as joint fillings."

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

Description: "Blocky crystals of orthoclase line miarolitic cavities, but have often grown across the cavities and are poorly or non terminated. They are usually white to cream and perthitic, with the sodic phase often etched out leaving a skeletal structure. The crystals commonly show Carlsbad twinning. Large blocky terminated crystals measuring up to 10 x 11x 12cm have been collected."

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Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Locality: Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, Australia

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Locality: Pinnaroo meteorite, Pinnaroo, Southern Mallee District Council, South Australia, Australia

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."

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

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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."

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Locality: Mineral Sands deposit, Taila Co., New South Wales, Australia

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Locality: Moorna Station (Norna Station), Wentworth, Wentworth Co., New South Wales, Australia

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

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

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Description: "Generally, quartz crystals in the miarolitic cavities are dark smoky to pale pinkish brown, well terminated, translucent to transparent and often gem quality. Crystals up to 23 cm long have been found, although they are more commonly 5-8 cm. They are often coated with a thin veneer of white clay and drusy fluorapatite crystals."

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

Locality: Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, Australia

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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."

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Description: "Small lustrous bipyramidal black crystals of rutile occur on quartz in some cavities."

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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."

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."

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Description: Schorl is confined to the miarolitic cavities forming fine fibrous needle like black/brown crystals. (pers.com. S.Mills)

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Locality: Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, Australia

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Habit: Has not been found in crystals

Colour: pale purple to purplish blue

Description: "This extremely rare mineral, a sodium beryllium zirconium phoshate, has been found in one of the pegmatite veins in the Wycherproof granite. It infills irregular cavities up to 8mm across, as deep purplish blue vitreous to fibrous masses and as granular pale purle aggregates mixed with limonite and muscovite. It may be associated with wardite and eosphorite."

Locality: Devil's Elbow (Sharp Point), Nampoo Station, Wentworth, Wentworth Co., New South Wales, Australia

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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Locality: WIM 150 deposit, Horsham, Rural City of Horsham, Victoria, Australia

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Locality: Karoonda meteorite, Karoonda, District Council of Karoonda East Murray, South Australia, Australia

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

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Locality: Pinnaroo meteorite, Pinnaroo, Southern Mallee District Council, South Australia, Australia

Locality: Springwood Salt Lake, Tara Co., New South Wales, Australia

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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

Description: "Torbernite is the most widespread of the uranium-bearing phosphates at Lake Boga. It is found on joint planes and in small cavities and is frequently associated with limonite crusts and films. Crystals may also be found on clay filling cavities and between cleavage flakes in books of muscovite. Torbernite usually occurs as thin, lustrous, transparent pale green to emerald green tabular crystals up to 2.5 mm on edge. These may lay flat on joints or occur as free standing aggregates in cavities. Thick tabular to blocky crystals of a more intense green have also been found. Torbernite occurs with most of the other phosphates at Lake Boga."

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Description: Bladed crystals are unusually pure [silica >99.6%]

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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."

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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."

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

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

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

Locality: Fisherman's Cliff, Moorna Station (Norna Station), Wentworth, Wentworth Co., New South Wales, Australia

Locality: Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "It forms blocky crystals up to 2mm across showing pyramidal forms, occasionally etched, and with a frosting of cyrilovite. Broken crystals are vitreous, transparent and pale yellow. Eosphorite crystals are usually associated with the wardite."

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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."

Locality: Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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Description: "It forms compact, cream to pinkish orange, fibrous masses filling small cavities in one of the pegmatite veins at Wycheproof. It has a vitreous lustre and is softer than feldspar with witch it may be confused."

Locality: WIM 150 deposit, Horsham, Rural City of Horsham, Victoria, Australia

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