A former underground Sn-Cu-Bi mine in north western Tasmania, closed in 1986.
Tin occurs in F-rich veins and skarns. It has produced some of Australia's best fluorite and vivianite specimens and some rare fluorides.
55 valid minerals. 2 (TL) - type locality of valid minerals. 1 erroneous literature entry.
Reference: http://www.crocoite.com/mainadit/luina.htm; Sillitoe, R. H. (1982). An Examination of Base, and Precious Metal, and Lithophile Element Mineralization in New South Wales and Tasmania Australia. Unpublished report for Gold Fields Exploration Pty Ltd, Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Co Ltd, RGC Exploration Pty Ltd. Open file Report Mineral Resources of Tasmania. MRT Report 82_1709.
Reference: http://www.crocoite.com/mainadit/luina.htm; Birch, W. D., & Pring, A. (1990). A calcian ralstonite-like mineral from the Cleveland Mine, Tasmania, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 54(377), 599-602.; Sillitoe, R. H. (1982). An Examination of Base, and Precious Metal, and Lithophile Element Mineralization in New South Wales and Tasmania Australia. Unpublished report for Gold Fields Exploration Pty Ltd, Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Co Ltd, RGC Exploration Pty Ltd. Open file Report Mineral Resources of Tasmania. MRT Report 82_1709.
Reference: Sillitoe, R. H. (1982). An Examination of Base, and Precious Metal, and Lithophile Element Mineralization in New South Wales and Tasmania Australia. Unpublished report for Gold Fields Exploration Pty Ltd, Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Co Ltd, RGC Exploration Pty Ltd. Open file Report Mineral Resources of Tasmania. MRT Report 82_1709.
Reference: Grey, I.E., Mumme, W.G., Birch, W.D., Pring, A., Bougerol, C., Wilson, N.C. (2010): Coulsellite, CaNa3AlMg3F14, a rhombohedral pyrochlore with 1:3 ordering in both A and B sites, from the Cleveland Mine, Tasmania, Australia. American Mineralogist, 95, 736-740.
Reference: Am Min 85:231-235; Birch, W. D., & Pring, A. (1990). A calcian ralstonite-like mineral from the Cleveland Mine, Tasmania, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 54(377), 599-602.
Description: Material originally described as calcian-ralstonite was later proven to be a distinct new mineral species: Coulsellite (now Fluornatrocoulsellite).
Reference: http://www.crocoite.com/mainadit/luina.htm; Birch, W. D., & Pring, A. (1990). A calcian ralstonite-like mineral from the Cleveland Mine, Tasmania, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 54(377), 599-602.
Reference: Bottrill, R. S. (2001). Rare earth, tantalum and niobium minerals reported in Tasmania. Record Tasmanian Geological Survey, 7.
Cox, R. & Dronseika, V. (1988): The Cleveland Stratabound Tin Deposits, Tasmania, Australia: A Review of Their Economic Geology, Exploration, Evaluation and Production. Pp. 112-123 in: C. S. Hutchison (ed.), Geology of Tin Deposits in Asia and the Pacific, Springer, 718 pp.
Hall, P. J. (1990) Minerals of the Mount Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania, Australian Mineralogist: 5(3).
Bottrill R.S.; Baker W.E. (2008), A Catalogue of The Minerals of Tasmania, Bulletin Geological Survey, Tasmania 73.