A number of skarn type assemblages exist at the Kara Mine, near Hampshire, Northwest Tasmania. The skarns occupy a trough-like pendant within late Devonian red granite known as the Housetop Granite. Open pit mining of scheelite has been in progress since 1977.
Magnetite is also of economic importance.
Andradite Colours from very pale yellow, green, red, brown and black. Bavenite Sprays of transparent colourless crystals with a thomsonite-like habit is a rare calcium beryllium silicate. These are associated with fluorite, pyrite and epidote. As red poorly crystalline masses. Possibly the source for the beryllium in bavenite.