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Wollastonite from
Brown's Creek Gold Mine, Browns Creek, Bathurst Co., New South Wales, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Wollastonite
Formula:Ca3(Si3O9)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wollastonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brown's Creek Gold Mine, Browns Creek, Bathurst Co., New South Wales, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1078717
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1078717:1
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Wollastonite
1.8km (1.1 miles) ⓘBrowns Creek, Bathurst Co., New South Wales, Australia
60.6km (37.6 miles) ⓘMount Tennyson Molybdenite Mine (Mount Tennyson Molybdenum Mine; Yetholme Mine), Locksley, Roxburgh Co., New South Wales, Australia
61.6km (38.3 miles) ⓘDiamond Hill Copper Deposit (Diamond Hill lodes), Tarana, Roxburgh Co., New South Wales, Australia
63.5km (39.4 miles) ⓘGumble Mine, Gumble, Ashburnham Co., New South Wales, Australia
63.8km (39.7 miles) ⓘLowes Mount, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
78.7km (48.9 miles) ⓘDuckmaloi river mine, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
References
Various (1965) Browns Creek Mine, Blayney. Mine Inspector’s Report MR 02717
Stevens, B.P.J. (1972) Mine Data Sheets to accompany Metallogenic Map Bathurst 1:250,000 Sheet. Geological Survey of New South Wales, Department of Mines.
Lawrie, K.C. (1997) Brown's Creek Mine. In: Porphyry-Epithermal Deposits of the Lachlan Fold Belt'. Geological Society of Australia's SpeciaJist Group in Economic Geology (SGEG), Geological Society of Australia.pp.38-46
Seccombe, Philip & Downes, Peter & Ashley, Paul & Brathwaite, Robert & R Green, Geoffrey & Murray, C.G. & Rubenach, Michael. (2005). World Skarn Deposits: Skarns of the Southwest Pacific. in Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume.
 
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