Three Victorian sites are type localities for phosphate minerals. Newberyite and hannayite were first described from guano deposits in a lava cave near Skipton, as were schertelite and dittmarite although their status is doubtful. Ulrichite was identified in granite from near Lake Boga, in north-west Victoria and the unusual zirconium-bearing phosphates wycheproofite and selwynite were discovered in pegmatite veins in granite at Wycheproof.
Since the publication of the book Phosphate minerals of Victoria (available from the Mineralogy Section) in 1993 several new occurrences have been documented while others are under investigation.