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Tambar Springs
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<blockquote data-quote="Dron" data-source="post: 406085" data-attributes="member: 7074"><p>This general area is well known for fine stellerite and heulandite. Early on many specimens were labeled Coonabarrabran or Gunnedah, both towns a long way from the main collecting sites. There are at least three principal sites:</p><p>Garrawilla Station, Coonabarabran district, Pottinger Co., New South Wales, Australia</p><p>Glendowda Station, Tambar Springs, Pottinger Co., New South Wales, Australia</p><p>and</p><p>Mount Mitchell Station, Tambar Springs, Pottinger Co., New South Wales, Australia.</p><p></p><p>Specimens are found in large cavities in vesicular basalts with pink stellerite and red heulandite, which sometimes have attractive globular clusters of drusy quartz overgrowing them. A large amount of material has been collected by private collectors and dealers, but most landowners present have banned collecting due to some colectors doing the wrong thing by them.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.mindat.org/loc-146569.html" target="_blank">https://www.mindat.org/loc-146569.html</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.mindat.org/gallery.php?loc=146569&pco=1" target="_blank">https://www.mindat.org/gallery.php?loc=146569&pco=1</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.mindat.org/photo-193604.html" target="_blank">https://www.mindat.org/photo-193604.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dron, post: 406085, member: 7074"] This general area is well known for fine stellerite and heulandite. Early on many specimens were labeled Coonabarrabran or Gunnedah, both towns a long way from the main collecting sites. There are at least three principal sites: Garrawilla Station, Coonabarabran district, Pottinger Co., New South Wales, Australia Glendowda Station, Tambar Springs, Pottinger Co., New South Wales, Australia and Mount Mitchell Station, Tambar Springs, Pottinger Co., New South Wales, Australia. Specimens are found in large cavities in vesicular basalts with pink stellerite and red heulandite, which sometimes have attractive globular clusters of drusy quartz overgrowing them. A large amount of material has been collected by private collectors and dealers, but most landowners present have banned collecting due to some colectors doing the wrong thing by them. [url]https://www.mindat.org/loc-146569.html[/url] [url]https://www.mindat.org/gallery.php?loc=146569&pco=1[/url] [url]https://www.mindat.org/photo-193604.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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