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Leake Spring Amethyst Mine, Mount Phillip Station (Mount Phillips Station), Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Leake Spring Amethyst Mine | - not defined - |
| Mount Phillip Station (Mount Phillips Station) | Mountain |
| Upper Gascoyne Shire | Shire |
| Western Australia | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
24° 28' 39'' South , 116° 30' 10'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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About 20 kilometres south-east of the Mount Phillips Station homestead is the Mount Phillips Amethyst Mine, and a further 8 kilometres east is the Leake Spring Amethyst Mine. The track to the location is diabolical, and requires permission from the station owner.
The open pit produced 4163 kg of amethyst across 1971-72, and when the Mount Phillips Amethyst Mine was visited in 2011, the station owner advised the Leake Spring site was an active lease and off limits.
Amethyst is found in quartz seggregations in a zoned pegmatite, near calc-silicate and marble palaeosomes in migmatite.
The Mindat co-ordinates are very approximate.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
| ⓘ Quartz var. Amethyst Formula: SiO2 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Quartz var. Amethyst | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| ⓘ | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | ⓘ Quartz var. Amethyst | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz var. Amethyst | SiO2 |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- Western Australia
- Gascoyne ProvinceGeologic Province
- Warakurna Large Igneous ProvinceGeologic Province
- West Australian ElementCraton
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
- West Australian Craton
- Capricorn OrogenOrogenic Belt
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