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Muscovite from
Hera Mine (Hera deposit), Nymagee, Mouramba Co., New South Wales, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hera Mine (Hera deposit), Nymagee, Mouramba Co., New South Wales, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:959403
Long-form Identifier:1:3:959403:6
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
5.3km (3.3 miles) ⓘNymagee Copper Mine, Nymagee, Mouramba Co., New South Wales, Australia
5.8km (3.6 miles) ⓘNorth Nymagee Copper Mine, Nymagee, Mouramba Co., New South Wales, Australia
10.4km (6.5 miles) ⓘFederation Mine, Nymagee, Mouramba Co., New South Wales, Australia
17.7km (11.0 miles) ⓘWirlong Mine (Star Of The West Mine; The Great Wirlong), Shuttleton, Mouramba Co., New South Wales, Australia
20.9km (13.0 miles) ⓘLowan North prospect, Shuttleton, Mouramba Co., New South Wales, Australia
21.9km (13.6 miles) ⓘCobar-Lyell Mine (Lyell prospect), Shuttleton, Mouramba Co., New South Wales, Australia
23.7km (14.7 miles) ⓘSouth Shuttleton Mine (Shuttleton Mine), Shuttleton, Mouramba Co., New South Wales, Australia
27.9km (17.3 miles) ⓘRainbow Ridge prospect, Babinda, Flinders Co., New South Wales, Australia
34.6km (21.5 miles) ⓘRoad Shaft prospect, Harts Tank, Flinders Co., New South Wales, Australia
36.1km (22.5 miles) ⓘHenrys Hotel prospect, Harts Tank, Flinders Co., New South Wales, Australia
References
Page, Daniel Graham, Geology of the Hera (Pb-Zn-Au) and Nymagee (Cu) deposits, New South Wales, Bachelor of Science (Honours), School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, 2011.
McKinnon, A.R., Fitzherbert, J.A. (2017) New developments at the Hera Au-Pb-Zn-Ag Mine, Nymagee, New South Wales. Discoveries in the Tasmanides 2017, Australian Institute of Geoscientists, AIG Bulletin 67.
Lay, A., Graham, I., Burrows, L., McKinnon, A., & Privat, K. (2018). Ore and Gangue Minerals of the Hera Au-Pb-Zn-Ag Deposit, Cobar Basin, NSW. ASEG Extended Abstracts, 2018(1), 1-7.
Graham, Ian T., Adam McKinnon, Khalid Schellen, Angela Lay, Elizabeth Liepa, Lachlan Burrows, Karen Privat, Hongyan Quan, David French, and Christian Dietz. (2021) "Hera: Evidence for Multiple Mineralization Events and Remobilization in a Sediment-Hosted Au-Pb-Zn-Ag Deposit, Central New South Wales, Australia" Environmental Sciences Proceedings 6, no. 1: 28. https://doi.org/10.3390/iecms2021-09345
 
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