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 | | Since that time, Moonstone Hill, which is surrounded by the Blackbraes National Park, has become a small multiple-use Resources Reserve.This Reserve was gazetted in 1998 under the Nature Conservation Act 1992, under the joint trusteeship of the Director-General, Department of Environment and Heritage, and the Director-General, Department of Mines and Energy. |
 | | It should also be mentioned that fossicking at the Chudleigh Park peridot field that lies to the south also produces some specimens of moonstone that occurs together with the peridot and (occasionally) some sapphire. |
 | | The deposit of moonstone being described in this paper is located at Moonstone Hill, which is found 4 on the eastern side of the Kennedy Developmental Road, 16km north from Hughenden, and approximately 90 km south of The Lynd, which is situated at the junction of the Gregory and Kennedy Developmental Roads (Map 1). |
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