Dunkheld Quarry, Bathurst, NSW

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Not the greatest image due to a poorlight and old camera technology. This is the exposed top of Steam Vent 4. The steam vents are marked by an cone- shaped zone of hydrothermally altered rock. Here fresh basalt surrounds a zone of serpentitic clays. These are swelling clays and they are a pain in the ar.... for the quarry as they gum up the crusher if it gets in.