Three extensive areas of intense scapolitization have been found in the Cloncurry district of north-western Queensland, centring on the Dugald River lead prospects, the old Duchess copper mine, and the Trekelano copper mine. At Dugald River the scapolite rocks occur over an area of more than 50 square miles, while at Duchess they outcrop over more than 30 square miles. They lie within the narrow, 150-mile long, north-south belt of Argylla gneisses and schists mapped by Honman, and may be co-extensive throughout this belt.