Quartz (Var: Chalcedony)
Ninghanboun Hills serpentinite, Weelhamby Lake, Perenjori Shire, Western Australia, Australia
From the Kooloonooka iron ore mine, 20 kilometres east of Morawa. Pinkish-blue chalcedony on iron matrix. The mine is on the western edge of Karara Station in the Ninghanboun Hills. The mine is at the northern end of the hills, and was opened in 1966 as the first iron ore mine in Western Australia. The deposit was discovered by geologists J Lalor ...