Kingsgate Mines
The mines lie in rugged, heavily wooded country, 32 kilometres east of Glen Innes on the Red Range Road.
Totaling over 60 separate workings scattered over a fairly small area, the mines were originally worked for
bismuth in the late 1800's.
Around the turn of the century they became Australia's principal source of molybdenum and during World
War 2 provided limited amounts of piezoelectric quartz for the radio industry. The unusual quartz pipe
deposits in the mining area were among australia's leading producers of molybdenite and bismuth in
the early 1900's.
In the course of active mining some of the world's finest specimens of molybdenite, bismuthred, bismuthinite
and quartz were recovered from the Kingsgate Mines.
These and other minerals are still found in the old workings, providing execptional cabinet and micromount
material. At Kingsgate today there is still a lot of quartz lying untouched, its a matter of being lucky or taking
the time to discover some for yourself.
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