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Bornite from
Yerranderie, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Bornite
Formula:Cu5FeS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bornite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Yerranderie, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:653349
Long-form Identifier:1:3:653349:6
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Bornite in this Region
Colon Peak Mine, Yerranderie, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
Colon Peak No. 6 Shaft, Yerranderie, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
Kerrys Shaft, Yerranderie, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
Silver Peak Mine, Yerranderie, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
Wonga Mine, Yerranderie, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Bornite
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘKerrys Shaft, Yerranderie, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
1.0km (0.6 miles) ⓘColon Peak No. 6 Shaft, Yerranderie, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
1.2km (0.7 miles) ⓘColon Peak Mine, Yerranderie, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
1.2km (0.8 miles) ⓘSilver Peak Mine, Yerranderie, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘWonga Mine, Yerranderie, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
67.2km (41.7 miles) ⓘProsper Mine, Essington, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
67.9km (42.2 miles) ⓘCopperhill Mines (Forans Mine; Little Wisemans Creek mine), Wisemans Creek, Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia
73.1km (45.4 miles) ⓘPeelwood Mine, Peelwood, Georgiana County, New South Wales, Australia
References
Edwards, A. B. (1953): The mineral composition of the Yerranderie silver-lead ores. Proceedings - Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, No. 170, 73-101.
Downes, Peter M. (2007) Yerranderie a Late Devonian Silver–Gold–Lead Intermediate Sulfidation Epithermal District, Eastern Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales, Australia. Resource Geology, 57 (1). p.1-23. doi:10.1111/j.1751-3928.2006.00001.x
 
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