Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Wycheproof granite quarry | Quarry |
| Wycheproof | Town |
| Buloke Shire | Shire |
| Victoria | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
36° 4' 35'' South , 143° 14' 4'' East
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Mt Wycheproof is a low (43m) knoll about 500 metres east of Wycheproof township in north-western Victoria. Quarrying on the site of the main eastern quarry began in the late 1930s. The maximum depth reached was around 12 metres. The quarry closed in 1965 due to impact of dust and flying rock from blasting on the Wycheproof township.
In 1990 mineral collectors discovered several pegmatite veins up to 12 cm wide in large boulders at the foot of the 9 metre high southern wall of the quarry. These boulders were the source of the minerals recorded from Wycheproof quarry.
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This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
15 valid minerals. 2 (TL) - type locality of valid minerals. 1 erroneous literature entry.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Autunite Formula: Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O 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. |
| ⓘ Cyrilovite Formula: NaFe3+3(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O Description: "In the Wycherproof pegmatite veins, cyrilovite forms very thin brownish yellow coatings and drusy crusts on wardite and eosphorite crystals. It also occurs as spongy aggregates with quartz and other phosphate minerals." |
| ⓘ Eosphorite Formula: Mn2+Al(PO4)(OH)2 · H2O 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." |
| ⓘ Fluorapatite Formula: Ca5(PO4)3F Description: "Primary fluorapatite occurs as pale blue, glassy, interstitial patches and rare crystals a few mm across and as ragged etched fragments less than 1mm across in some cavities in the Wycheproof pegmatites. The etched fluorapatite occurs with powdery and spongy aggregates of cyrilovite, quartz and muscovite. In a few cavities, secondary hydrothermal apatite occurs as spherical aggregates, up to 1mm across, consisting of radiating colourless fibrous crystals." |
| ⓘ Formula: NaFe3+9+x(PO4)6(OH)11 · 3H2O, x = 0.33 Description: "A mineral resembling kidwellite has been found in cavities with leucophosphite, eosphorite and rockbridgite. It forms lemon-yellow, hemispherical aggregates and fan shaped clusters up to 0.2mm across."
Now confirmed as Meurigite-K References: |
| ⓘ Kosnarite Formula: KZr2(PO4)3 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." |
| ⓘ Leucophosphite Formula: KFe3+2(PO4)2(OH) · 2H2O Description: "Sparkling spherical and hemispherical clusters of transparent pale brown, pale yellow or brownish pink leucophosphite occur in some of the etched cavities in the pegmatite veins. The clusters are up to 1mm across, and may be seen with rockbridgite, eosphorite, kidwellite and quartz." |
| ⓘ 'Limonite' |
| ⓘ Meta-autunite Formula: Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O |
| ⓘ Metatorbernite Formula: Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O Description: "A few opaque dull-green microcrystals of metatorbernite have been found in small etch cavities." |
| ⓘ Meurigite-K Formula: KFe3+8(PO4)6(OH)7 · 6.5H2O 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." |
| ⓘ Muscovite Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| ⓘ Rockbridgeite Formula: (Fe2+0.5Fe3+0.5)2Fe3+3(PO4)3(OH)5 Description: "A dark green to bluish green iron phosphate (rockbridgite) forms fibrous spherical intergrowths, globular crusts and rare sheaf-like tufts in cavities in the Wycheproof pegmatite veins. Individual spheres rarely exceed 0.5mm in diameter. The mineral is usually associated with cyrilovite, eosphorite, leucophosphite and rarely with kidwellite." |
| ⓘ Saléeite Formula: Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10H2O Description: "In the Wycheproof pegmatite, thick tabular to blocky transparent yellow saleeite crystals up to about 0.5mm across occur amongst the alteration products of original phosphate minerals in etch cavities. Pale yellow translucent to opaque crystal clusters also occur on limonite stained joint planes in the granite adjacent to the pegmatite veins." |
| ✪ Selwynite (TL) Formula: NaK(Be,Al)Zr2(PO4)4 · 2H2O Type Locality: 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." |
| ⓘ Wardite Formula: NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O 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." |
| ⓘ Wycheproofite (TL) Formula: NaAlZr(PO4)2(OH) · H2O Type Locality: 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." References: |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 8 - Phosphates, Arsenates and Vanadates | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Kosnarite | 8.AC.60 | KZr2(PO4)3 |
| ⓘ | Rockbridgeite | 8.BC.10 | (Fe2+0.5Fe3+0.5)2Fe3+3(PO4)3(OH)5 |
| ⓘ | Fluorapatite | 8.BN.05 | Ca5(PO4)3F |
| ⓘ | Selwynite (TL) | 8.CA.20 | NaK(Be,Al)Zr2(PO4)4 · 2H2O |
| ⓘ | Eosphorite | 8.DD.20 | Mn2+Al(PO4)(OH)2 · H2O |
| ⓘ | Leucophosphite | 8.DH.10 | KFe3+2(PO4)2(OH) · 2H2O |
| ⓘ | Meurigite-K | 8.DJ.20 | KFe3+8(PO4)6(OH)7 · 6.5H2O |
| ⓘ | Wycheproofite (TL) | 8.DJ.30 | NaAlZr(PO4)2(OH) · H2O |
| ⓘ | Kidwellite ? | 8.DK.20 | NaFe3+9+x(PO4)6(OH)11 · 3H2O, x = 0.33 |
| ⓘ | Cyrilovite | 8.DL.10 | NaFe3+3(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| ⓘ | Wardite | 8.DL.10 | NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| ⓘ | Autunite | 8.EB.05 | Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O |
| ⓘ | Saléeite | 8.EB.05 | Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10H2O |
| ⓘ | Meta-autunite | 8.EB.10 | Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O |
| ⓘ | Metatorbernite | 8.EB.10 | Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O |
| Group 9 - Silicates | |||
| ⓘ | Muscovite | 9.EC.15 | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Limonite' | - | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | ⓘ Autunite | Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O |
| H | ⓘ Cyrilovite | NaFe33+(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| H | ⓘ Eosphorite | Mn2+Al(PO4)(OH)2 · H2O |
| H | ⓘ Kidwellite | NaFe3+9+x(PO4)6(OH)11 · 3H2O, x = 0.33 |
| H | ⓘ Leucophosphite | KFe23+(PO4)2(OH) · 2H2O |
| H | ⓘ Meta-autunite | Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O |
| H | ⓘ Metatorbernite | Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O |
| H | ⓘ Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| H | ⓘ Rockbridgeite | (Fe2+0.5Fe3+0.5)2Fe33+(PO4)3(OH)5 |
| H | ⓘ Saléeite | Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10H2O |
| H | ⓘ Wardite | NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| H | ⓘ Wycheproofite | NaAlZr(PO4)2(OH) · H2O |
| H | ⓘ Meurigite-K | KFe83+(PO4)6(OH)7 · 6.5H2O |
| H | ⓘ Selwynite | NaK(Be,Al)Zr2(PO4)4 · 2H2O |
| Be | Beryllium | |
| Be | ⓘ Selwynite | NaK(Be,Al)Zr2(PO4)4 · 2H2O |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Autunite | Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O |
| O | ⓘ Cyrilovite | NaFe33+(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| O | ⓘ Eosphorite | Mn2+Al(PO4)(OH)2 · H2O |
| O | ⓘ Fluorapatite | Ca5(PO4)3F |
| O | ⓘ Kidwellite | NaFe3+9+x(PO4)6(OH)11 · 3H2O, x = 0.33 |
| O | ⓘ Kosnarite | KZr2(PO4)3 |
| O | ⓘ Leucophosphite | KFe23+(PO4)2(OH) · 2H2O |
| O | ⓘ Meta-autunite | Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O |
| O | ⓘ Metatorbernite | Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O |
| O | ⓘ Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Rockbridgeite | (Fe2+0.5Fe3+0.5)2Fe33+(PO4)3(OH)5 |
| O | ⓘ Saléeite | Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10H2O |
| O | ⓘ Wardite | NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| O | ⓘ Wycheproofite | NaAlZr(PO4)2(OH) · H2O |
| O | ⓘ Meurigite-K | KFe83+(PO4)6(OH)7 · 6.5H2O |
| O | ⓘ Selwynite | NaK(Be,Al)Zr2(PO4)4 · 2H2O |
| F | Fluorine | |
| F | ⓘ Fluorapatite | Ca5(PO4)3F |
| Na | Sodium | |
| Na | ⓘ Cyrilovite | NaFe33+(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| Na | ⓘ Kidwellite | NaFe3+9+x(PO4)6(OH)11 · 3H2O, x = 0.33 |
| Na | ⓘ Wardite | NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| Na | ⓘ Wycheproofite | NaAlZr(PO4)2(OH) · H2O |
| Na | ⓘ Selwynite | NaK(Be,Al)Zr2(PO4)4 · 2H2O |
| Mg | Magnesium | |
| Mg | ⓘ Saléeite | Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10H2O |
| Al | Aluminium | |
| Al | ⓘ Eosphorite | Mn2+Al(PO4)(OH)2 · H2O |
| Al | ⓘ Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| Al | ⓘ Wardite | NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| Al | ⓘ Wycheproofite | NaAlZr(PO4)2(OH) · H2O |
| Al | ⓘ Selwynite | NaK(Be,Al)Zr2(PO4)4 · 2H2O |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| P | Phosphorus | |
| P | ⓘ Autunite | Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O |
| P | ⓘ Cyrilovite | NaFe33+(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| P | ⓘ Eosphorite | Mn2+Al(PO4)(OH)2 · H2O |
| P | ⓘ Fluorapatite | Ca5(PO4)3F |
| P | ⓘ Kidwellite | NaFe3+9+x(PO4)6(OH)11 · 3H2O, x = 0.33 |
| P | ⓘ Kosnarite | KZr2(PO4)3 |
| P | ⓘ Leucophosphite | KFe23+(PO4)2(OH) · 2H2O |
| P | ⓘ Meta-autunite | Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O |
| P | ⓘ Metatorbernite | Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O |
| P | ⓘ Rockbridgeite | (Fe2+0.5Fe3+0.5)2Fe33+(PO4)3(OH)5 |
| P | ⓘ Saléeite | Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10H2O |
| P | ⓘ Wardite | NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| P | ⓘ Wycheproofite | NaAlZr(PO4)2(OH) · H2O |
| P | ⓘ Meurigite-K | KFe83+(PO4)6(OH)7 · 6.5H2O |
| P | ⓘ Selwynite | NaK(Be,Al)Zr2(PO4)4 · 2H2O |
| K | Potassium | |
| K | ⓘ Kosnarite | KZr2(PO4)3 |
| K | ⓘ Leucophosphite | KFe23+(PO4)2(OH) · 2H2O |
| K | ⓘ Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| K | ⓘ Meurigite-K | KFe83+(PO4)6(OH)7 · 6.5H2O |
| K | ⓘ Selwynite | NaK(Be,Al)Zr2(PO4)4 · 2H2O |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Autunite | Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O |
| Ca | ⓘ Fluorapatite | Ca5(PO4)3F |
| Ca | ⓘ Meta-autunite | Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O |
| Mn | Manganese | |
| Mn | ⓘ Eosphorite | Mn2+Al(PO4)(OH)2 · H2O |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Cyrilovite | NaFe33+(PO4)2(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| Fe | ⓘ Kidwellite | NaFe3+9+x(PO4)6(OH)11 · 3H2O, x = 0.33 |
| Fe | ⓘ Leucophosphite | KFe23+(PO4)2(OH) · 2H2O |
| Fe | ⓘ Rockbridgeite | (Fe2+0.5Fe3+0.5)2Fe33+(PO4)3(OH)5 |
| Fe | ⓘ Meurigite-K | KFe83+(PO4)6(OH)7 · 6.5H2O |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | ⓘ Metatorbernite | Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O |
| Zr | Zirconium | |
| Zr | ⓘ Kosnarite | KZr2(PO4)3 |
| Zr | ⓘ Wycheproofite | NaAlZr(PO4)2(OH) · H2O |
| Zr | ⓘ Selwynite | NaK(Be,Al)Zr2(PO4)4 · 2H2O |
| U | Uranium | |
| U | ⓘ Autunite | Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10-12H2O |
| U | ⓘ Meta-autunite | Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 6H2O |
| U | ⓘ Metatorbernite | Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O |
| U | ⓘ Saléeite | Mg(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 10H2O |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- Lachlan OrogenOrogen
- Murray BasinBasin
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
- Lachlan Fold Belt
- Stalwell ZoneOrogenic Belt
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References
Birch, William D., Pring, Allan, Bevan, D. J. M., Kharisun, (1994) Wycheproofite: a new hydrated sodium aluminium zirconium phosphate from Wycheproof, Victoria, Australia, and a new occurrence of kosnarite. Mineralogical Magazine, 58 (393) 635-639 doi:10.1180/minmag.1994.058.393.13
Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria, Australia