Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australiai

Regional Level Types
Mansfield Shire	Shire
Victoria	State
Australia	Country

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Description: "Albite is not common in the quartz veins. When it is present, it forms uniformly small polysynthetic twins about 3-4mm in maximum dimension. Crystals are often flawed or milky."

Reference: Bussat, F. (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.31 July 1980 pp. 147-152.

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Description: "Ankerite is of major importance within the quartz veins and may easily be mistaken for dolomite. A continuous series between those two minerals is very likely in the quartz veins. Slightly deformed, reddish-brown rhombohedra, deposited later than dolomite, are probably ankerite."

Reference: Bussat, F, (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria, The Australian Mineralogist No. 31, July 1980, pp. 147-152.

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

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Description: "Boulangerite has been confirmed from the Morning Star Mine as a minor constituent of the quartz veins and has been deposited during or slightly after the gold and bournonite. It often forms fragile hair like crystals."

Reference: Bussat, F, (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria, The Australian Mineralogist No. 31, July 1980, pp. 147-152.

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Description: "Bournonite is a relatively common mineral in the quartz veins, occurring as small striated, prismatic crystals. Its deposition is related to that of gold."

Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection F.Bussat 1980. Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.31 July1980, pp. 147-152.

Locality: Little Comet Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Brookite if found only in a quartz vug at the Little Comet mine. About 10 specimens have been recognized, most of them unfortunately being broken. They are associated with either quartz or albite. The colour may vary from sky blue to honey-yellow, sometimes with a slight reddish tinge. The crystals are striated. Brookite forms delicate, thin plates between 0.5 and 0.3 mm thick and up to 1 cm in length. The crystals show a consistent habit although a few are unusually thick. Some of the darker crystals are a mixture of brookite and rutile."

Reference: Bussat, F. (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.31 July 1980, pp. 147-152.

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Description: "Cacoxenite is reasonably common at Phosphate Hill where it is usually found in veins, fractures or small vughs in black shale or grey phosphorite. It generally occurs as minute golden-yellow spherules up to 0.2mm across, consisting of radiating acicular crystals, or as fibrous silky yellow coatings associated with fluorapatite and wavellite."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

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Description: "Calcite is a major vein constituent, although less common than quartz and dolomite. It occurs in the same crystal habit as dolomite and is often mistaken for the latter mineral. The typical habit is that of thin flattened rhombohedra showing growth marks. Calcite of secondary origin occurs as stalactites or 'fish tails' hanging from the roof or sides of adits."

Reference: Bussat, F. (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.31 July 1980 pp. 147-152.

Locality: Cockers Claim, Tallangallook, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: VandenBerg, A.H.M., Cayley, R.A., Willman, C.E., Morand, V.J., Seymon, A.R., Osborne, C.R., Taylor, D.H., Haydon, S.J., McLean, M., Quinn, C., Jackson P., and Sandford, A.C. (2006) Walhalla-Woods Point-Tallangallook, Special map area geological report, Geological Survey of Victoria Report 127, GeoScience Victoria. Department of Primary Industries [ISBN 1 74106 999 8].

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Description: In 1942 a report by Stillwell recorded that chalcopyrite occurred rarely in a small quartz sample.

Reference: W.D. Birch., The Jamieson Mercury Deposit, Victoria. - Australian Journal of Mineralogy Vol. 9, No.1 June 2003

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Description: "Chlorite is a late-stage mineral, sometimes occurring as inclusions in quartz, but more often as encrustations on the vein minerals."

Reference: Bussat, F. (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.31 July 1980, pp. 147-152.

Locality: Jamieson Mercury mine, Quicksilver creek, Jamieson, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Well forrmed crystals of cinnabar are uncommon and rarely exceed 0.5mm. However, drusy patches and cavity linings of bright red, striated crystals occur on some ore specimens. Cinnabar more commonly occurs as bright to dull red scaly coatings on fractures within quartz veins."

Reference: W.D. Birch., The Jamieson mercury deposit, Victoria. -Australian Journal of Mineralogy Vol.9, No.1, June 2003; McQueen, K. (2011). Mercury mining: A quick history of quicksilver in Australia. Journal of Australasian Mining History, 9, 74.

Locality: Morning Star Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Cubanite occurs in a similar manner to pentlandite, being found as minute inclusions in chalcopyrite or pyrrhottite in the Morning Star Mine."

Reference: Bussat, F, (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria, The Australian Mineralogist No. 31, July 1980, pp. 147-152.

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Description: "Dolomite is considered to be the major carbonate phase at the A1 mine and forms thin flattened rhombohedra showing 'growth marks'. Colour is usually off-white or cream, but may be greenish due to dispersed chlorite inclusions or coatings."

Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection; F.Bussat 1980, Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.31, July 1980, pp. 147-152

Locality: Phosphate Hill, Mansfield, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "At Phosphate Hill faustite occurs as pale green crystal aggregates up to 0.2mm across, enclosed in wavellite forming thin seams in dark grey chert. Microprobe analysis shows the faustite to contain significant copper."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

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Description: "Although this mineral is relatively rare at Phosphate Hill, it may be found in seams and fractures in greyish phosphorite where it usually occurs as sparkling drusy crusts of colourless, transparent, dipyramidal crystals less than 0.5mm across. Occasionally the fluellite may be found overlying or mixed with brown or white clay. Fluellite generally occurs alone, but a few specimens with wavellite and quartz have been found."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

Locality: Phosphate Hill, Mansfield, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Fluorapatite is the major mineral at Phosphate Hill, forming 60-70% of the phosphorite, in which it replaces shelly fragments and forms the fine-grained matrix."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

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Description: "Galena has been recorded in minor amounts in quartz veins at the A1 Mine"

Reference: Museum Victoria Mineralogy Collection; F.Bussat 1980, Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.31, July 1980, pp. 147-152

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

Reference: VandenBerg, A.H.M., Cayley, R.A., Willman, C.E., Morand, V.J., Seymon, A.R., Osborne, C.R., Taylor, D.H., Haydon, S.J., McLean, M., Quinn, C., Jackson P., and Sandford, A.C. (2006) Walhalla-Woods Point-Tallangallook, Special map area geological report, Geological Survey of Victoria Report 127, GeoScience Victoria. Department of Primary Industries [ISBN 1 74106 999 8].

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Description: "Gypsum at Phosphate Hill appears to have formed as a post-mining mineral and is found in near-spherical masses of small, colourless to white crystals forming coatings on black slate."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

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Description: "Kermesite is associated with stibnite at the Drysdale Claim (part of the Morning Star complex) occurring as small tufts and powdery coatings in crevices and hollows of stibnite."

Reference: Bussat, F, (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria, The Australian Mineralogist No. 31, July 1980, pp. 147-152.

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Description: "Lithiophorite appears to have been confirmed by x-ray diffraction as a greyish-black secondary mineral occurring as encrustations on quartz at the Cherry Mine."

Reference: F.Bussat 1980. Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.31 July 1980, pp. 147-152

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Locality: Morning Star Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Marcasite has only been detected in association with pyrrhotite in the basic dyke at Morning Star Mine."

Reference: Bussat, F, (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria, The Australian Mineralogist No. 31, July 1980, pp. 147-152.

Locality: Jamieson Mercury mine, Quicksilver creek, Jamieson, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Ore samples shows that mercury almost always occurs associated with the quart-dolomite veins and patches. Within the veins these are small cavities, from a few millimetres up to about 15mm across, that commonly contain globules of mercury. Those globules less than about 0.5mm across are generally spherical but larger globules up to 3mm across, are irregular. One cavity contained a continuous film up to 10mm across. As well, mercury may infill gaps between quartz crystals. Tiny spherical globules may also be found scattered across the surface of fractures along very thin quartz veinlets."

Reference: W.D. Birch., The Jamieson mercury deposit, Victoria. -Australian Journal of Mineralogy Vol.9, No.1, June 2003; McQueen, K. (2011). Mercury mining: A quick history of quicksilver in Australia. Journal of Australasian Mining History, 9, 74.

Locality: Jamieson Mercury mine, Quicksilver creek, Jamieson, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Dark grey varieties of cinnabar have been recorded and it is possible that these incorporate very thin alteration films of metacinnabar that may be very difficult to detect optically or by X-ray defraction."

Reference: W.D. Birch., The Jamieson mercury deposit, Victoria. -Australian Journal of Mineralogy Vol.9, No.1, June 2003

Locality: Morning Star Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Millerite is a rare mineral restricted to the bleached zone at the Morning Star Mine."

Reference: Bussat, F, (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria, The Australian Mineralogist No. 31, July 1980, pp. 147-152.

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Locality: Phosphate Hill, Mansfield, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "A rare mineral at Phosphate Hill, hyalite occurs as thin, lustrous mammillary coatings on phosphorite. The crusts are transparent and often crazed. Hyalite is sometimes found with strengite-variscite globules, cacoxenite and wavellite."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

Locality: Phosphate Hill, Mansfield, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "A rare mineral at Phosphate Hill, hyalite occurs as thin, lustrous mammillary coatings on phosphorite. The crusts are transparent and often crazed. Hyalite is sometimes found with strengite-variscite globules, cacoxenite and wavellite."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

Locality: Morning Star Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Pentlandite occurs associated with pyrrhotite in the Morning Star Mine."

Reference: Bussat, F, (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria, The Australian Mineralogist No. 31, July 1980, pp. 147-152.

Locality: Mt Table Top, Mansfield, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Locality: Phosphate Hill, Mansfield, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Microprobe analysis shows that some of the turquoise is depleted in copper and may be grading to planerite."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

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

Description: "At Phosphate Hill, nodules of decomposed pyrite up to 10mm in diameter may be found in the phosphorite."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

Locality: Morning Star Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Pyrrhotite was described from the bleached zones in the dyke at Morning Star Mine, where it seems to have been one of the main ore minerals together with chalcopyrite."

Reference: Bussat, F, (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria, The Australian Mineralogist No. 31, July 1980, pp. 147-152.

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

Reference: McQueen, K. (2011). Mercury mining: A quick history of quicksilver in Australia. Journal of Australasian Mining History, 9, 74.

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Description: "Rectorite is a soapy-looking, white, late vein filling mineral, very common in vugs at the Little Comet mine."

Reference: Bussat, F. (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.31 July 1980, pp. 147-152.

Locality: Little Comet Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Rutile occurred as a few bronze coloured needles growing on brookite crystals. These needles are minute and can only be detected by careful examination. Rutile is also enclosed within the brookite crystals."

Reference: Bussat, F. (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.31 July 1980, pp. 147-152.

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Description: "Sphalerite is another minor constituent in quartz veins at the Little Comet Mine. The crystals may vary from honey-yellow to black with a reddish tinge. Crystals may be up to 3 mm across."

Reference: Bussat, F. (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.31 July 1980, pp. 147-152.

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Locality: Phosphate Hill, Mansfield, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: At Phosphate Hill strengite forms "pale grey, translucent, waxy globules and botryoidal coatings overlying cacoxenite on some fracture surfaces in the phosphorite. The globules, which may be up to 0.5mm across, have a very fine-scale concentric banded structure."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

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Description: "Tetrahedrite is a minor constituent of quartz veins. It occurs as crystalline aggregates, more rarely as small tetrahedral. The period of deposition seems to coincide with that of gold."

Reference: Bussat, F. (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria. The Australian Mineralogist No.31 July 1980, pp. 147-152.

Locality: Mt Table Top, Mansfield, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

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Description: "Turquoise is uncommon at Phosphate Hill, but occurs as white to pale blue veinlets in the phosphorite and chert. In some specimens of weathered phosphorite, pale blue turquoise has pseudomorphed small wavellite rosettes."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

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Description: "Valentinite is restricted to the old Drysdale Claim in the Morning Star complex. It occurred as an oxidation product of stibnite in small, light-yellow to rose-red prismatic crystals."

Reference: Bussat, F, (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria, The Australian Mineralogist No. 31, July 1980, pp. 147-152.

Locality: Morning Star Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Valleriite is only recorded as rare minute inclusions in chalcopyrite grains in the Cu-Ni mineralization in the Morning Star Mine."

Reference: Bussat, F, (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria, The Australian Mineralogist No. 31, July 1980, pp. 147-152.

Locality: Phosphate Hill, Mansfield, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "As well as forming a solid solution series with strengite in the grey globules, variscite occurs rarely as thin greenish white films less than 0.5mm thick in black chert. It may be intimately mixed with wavellite."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

Locality: Morning Star Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Description: "Violarite has been recorded at the Morning Star Mine in the bleached zone and is probably an alteration product of pentlandite and millerite."

Reference: Bussat, F, (1980) Minerals from some mines in the Woods Point district, Victoria, The Australian Mineralogist No. 31, July 1980, pp. 147-152.

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Description: "Wavellite is the most prominent phosphate mineral at Phosphate Hill. It is best developed in the phosphorite, where it occurs in seams, veinlets and cavities. Spherical aggregates of tightly packed acicular wavellite crystals may be up to 9mm across. The crystals are flattened in section and show wedge-shaped terminations. Isolated, open radiating sprays are uncommon and the aggregates are usually intergrown to form globular crusts. When broken these show the typical structure of fibrous radiating crystals forming shallow discs or low-angle cones. Wavellite crystals are usually colourless, but the crusts may be greyish white or pale green. Blocky water-clear wavellite crystals up to 0.5mm long occur with cacoxenite and strengite-variscite. Wavellite is occasionally pseudomorphed by pale blue-green turquoise and may be intimately mixed with variscite in thin seams in chert."

Reference: W.D.Birch & D.A.Henry 1993. Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. The Mineralogical Society of Victoria special publication No. 3 pp 67-77

Locality: Bonnie Doon Mine, Bonnie Doon, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia

Reference: VandenBerg, A.H.M., Cayley, R.A., Willman,C.E., Morand, V.J., Seymon, A.R., Osborne, C.R., Taylor, D.H., Haydon, S.J., McLean, M., Quinn, C., Jackson P., and Sandford, A.C. (2006) Walhalla-Woods Point-Tallangallook, Special map area geological report, Geological Survey of Victoria Report 127, GeoScience Victoria. Department of Primary Industries [ISBN 1 74106 999 8].