3289 Wilkinsonite (TL), Warrumbungle Volcano, New South Wales, Australia
3289 Wilkinsonite (TL), Warrumbungle Volcano, Warrumbungle National Park, Gowen Co., New South Wales, Australia.25X17X15mm.
3289 Wilkinsonite (TL), Warrumbungle Volcano, Warrumbungle National Park, Gowen Co., New South Wales, Australia.25X17X15mm.
3328 Alunite, Alum Mountain, Bulahdelah, New South Wales, Australia.52x32x27mm.
ANKP252 Pyrite from from Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 23x20x5mm.
ANKG121 Galena (crystal) from Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 9x8x7mm.
ANKA272 Arsenopyrite from Sunny Corner, Roxburgh Co., New South Wales, Australia. FOV 10mm.
ANKQ62 Japan Law Twin Quartz from Shepherdlys Fluorite Mine, The Gulf, New South Wales, Australia. 15x10x6mm.
ANKR42 Rhodochrosite on Quartz | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 15mm.
Copper, Cuprite on Smithsonite from Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 20x15x12mm.
ANKP186 Pyromorphite, Mount Stewart Mine, Leadville, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 17mm.
Pyromorphite from Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 50x20x8mm.
3270 Laumontite, Prehnite, Albion Park Quarry, New South WalesPrehnite, Albion Park Quarry, Croom, Camden Co., New South Wales, Australia. 40x30x20mm.
3269 Calcite, Pyrite on Prehnite, Prospect Quarry, Prospect, Cumberland Co., New South Wales, Australia. FOV 35mm.
3267 Prehnite, Albion Park Quarry, Croom, Camden Co., New South Wales, Australia. 45x35x25mm.
3266 Prehnite, Albion Park Quarry, Croom, Camden Co., New South Wales, Australia. 40x35x30mm.
Birchite? (labelled Birchite but not analysed and requires further investigation) from Block 14 Open Cut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 3mm.
Vesuvianite from Barraba, New South Wales, Australia. 30x24x10mm.
Argardite-(Y) from Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 5mm.
Calcite with Aragonite | Kyogle Quarry, Fairy Mount, Kyogle, New South Wales, Australia | 50x25x15mm |
Fine grained Vittinkiite. Analyses indicates that “Rhodonite” from this locality is actually Vittinkiite | Woods Mine, Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia | 60x50x45mm |
Native Copper – Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 110x60x50mm.
A selection of thumbnail and miniature Native Copper specimens from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Field of view is 50mm.
Chlorargyrite from the South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [35x35x20mm]
Native Silver (wire) | Brownes Shaft, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia | 15x10x8mm | No. 2544 |
Cuprite | Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia | FOV 10mm | No. 852 |
Pyromorphite | Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia | 20x15x12mm | No. 926 |
Spessartine | Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia | FOV 75mm | No. 1916 |
Orange Raspite associated with yellowish Stolzite and green Cuprotungstite, label also records cuprian (Copper Bearing) Scheelite, but this is probably Cuprotungstite. Cordillera Mine, Tuena, Georgiana County, New South Wales, Australia. 10x10x10mm. Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection.
Greenockite , Galena, Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series, Pyrite, Cerussite | Woodlawn Mine, Tarago, Murray Co., New South Wales, Australia. FOV 5mm.
A small metallic grain (0.5mm) of Native Tin from the Aberfoyle River, Oban, Clark County, New South Wales, Australia. Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection.
Thomsonite on Chabazite, Krui River, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 30mm.
Azurite, Malachite and a “V” Twin Cerussite from Block 14, South Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia. 30x20x20mm.
Cerussite, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 40mm.
“Straw” Cerussite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 130x100x60mm.
Cerussite (reticulated) from the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 55x45x25mm.
Anglesite on Cerussite, BHP Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 110x100x80mm.
Large ‘V’ twinned Cerussite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 80x50x35mm.
White balls of Dawsonite on Kutnohorite (confirmed with XRD) | Narrabri Coal Mine, Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia | 26x16x6mm | No. 1833
Wollastonite, Pyrite, Magnetite | Browns Creek Mine, Cow Flat, Bathurst, NSW, Australia. 70x40x28mm. No. 1519.
Bustamite, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 90x45x25mm.
Pyromorphite on Coronadite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [55x50x15mm]
Wulfenite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [55x40x20mm]
Fluorapophyllite-(K) on Inesite, Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 13mm.
Emerald in Quartz from the Torrington mining district, Torrington, New South Wales, Australia. Longest Beryl crystal is 65mm long.
Last one for the evening. Bismuth from Kingsgate, Gough Co., New South Wales, Australia. 13z12x5mm.
Beryl (Var: Emerald) | Torrington mining district, Torrington, NSW, Australia. 17x5x5mm.
Iodargyrite | Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Cabinet.
Staurolite | Thackaringa, Broken Hill District, New South Wales, Australia. Cabinet.
Azurite on Beaverite-(Cu) | Mineral Hill, Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia. FOV is 60mm.
Diaphorite, Pyargyrite, Arsenopyrite | Rockvale Arsenic Mine, Rockvale, NSW, Australia. Ex Proff. Laurie Lawrence (Aus) specimen. Dark grey areas amid pyargyrite and arsenopyrite. Determined by XRD. See: Lawrence, L.J.; Chand, F., (1962). Ore minerals of...
Mawbyite (TL) | Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 10mm.
Brown pyromorphite on bed of lustrous dark green-black vauquelinite crystals from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia. 23x15x12mm
(green) Bayldonite pseudomorphing Mimetite with (yellow-green) Beudantite-Segnitite (series) from the Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 30mm. Collected in the 1970’s.
Ex Chris Parkinson. Ex George Smith. In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries George Smith was an ore-buyer, manager of the ABH Consols mine and from 1904 the NSW Inspector of Mines for many...
Baryte on Manganoan Calcite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 135x115x40mm.
Pyrite dusting Baryte on Calcite from the Zinc / NBHC Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 35x30x10mm.
Azurite from the Great Cobar North Mine (North Cobar mine), Cobar, New South Wales, Australia. 40x55x45mm.
Azurite from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Ex SA Museum. 55x55x40mm.
Azurite from Mineral Hill, Condobolin district, New South Wales, Australia. [FOV 90mm]
Azurite from Mineral Hill, Condobolin district, New South Wales, Australia. [40x29x12mm]
Marshite from the type locality, Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The photograph on the right is a bit crude but shows the same specimen under longwave ultraviolet. [15x12x12mm]
Large single Almandine crystal from Ireland’s Garnet Mine, Thackaringa District, New South Wales, Australia. [110x100x95mm]
Two interesting thumbnail specimens of greyish-black Acanthite after Dyscrastite or Argentite from Brownes Shaft Junction, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Circa 1966-68.
Ferro-actinolite from the Junction North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [25x11x10mm]
Actinolite from the Browns Creek Mine, Cow Flat, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. [65x50x40mm]
Actinolite in Quartz from the North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 30mm.
Alabandite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. [40mm]
Raspite crystals, many double terminated from the type locality, Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. [24×20x20mm]
Green Anglesite, a Broken Hill classic from the MMM Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Specimen measures approximately 62x25x10mm with green Anglesite crystals measuring 1-4 mm scattered on a red-brown-black Goethite matrix.
Large opaque and blocky crystal (70mm) of dark brown-black Bustamite in massive Pyrrhotite from the NBHC Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [120x75x60mm]
Long crystals of Bustamite in Galena from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [90x55x30mm]
Pinkish Bustamite with Sphalerite and Galena from the North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [35x25x22mm]
Pinkish, off white ‘Hairy’ Bustamite from 29 Level of the North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [45x30x20mm]
Rare Na/Mn Silicate. Mangano-Ferri Eckermannite from the Woods Mine, Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. [130x85x60mm]
Manganoan bearing Smithsonite – Zincian Rhodochrosite from Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. [110x50x35mm] MinSoc Field Trip – 1996.
Hedenbergite (Var: Manganoan Hedenbergite) crystals to 10mm from the North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [FOV: 80mm]
Bustamite in Calcite from the 18 Level of the ZC/NBHC Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 50mm terminated crystal. Overall dimensions 105x50x48mm.
Rhodonite in Galena from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [120x80x75mm]
Ktenasite from Block 14 Open Cut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Smithsonite from Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Philipsbornite from the Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Brown Pyromorphite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
‘Manganogrunerite’ from Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Smithsonite from Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Large plate of dog tooth Calcite crystals from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature. Small Cabinet.
Smithsonite on Coronadite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature. 35x10x8mm.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature. Miniature.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature. Cabinet.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature. Small Cabinet.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Rhodochrosite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Azurite from Mineral Hill, Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia. Small Cabinet.
Silver from the Endeavour Mine (Elura Mine), Cobar, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Bismutite (white) and Koechlinite (yellow) on Bismuthinite and Quartz. XRD Confirmed. Obtained from exploration work carried out a few years ago. Not seen from Kingsgate since early 20th century. Bladed Molybdenite replaced in some parts....
Ferrimolybdite on Quartz, a rare secondary mineral occuring in the oxdised zones of hydrothermal veins, it forms from the alteration of Molybdenite. From Old 25 Mine, Kingsgate, New South Wales, Australia.
Molybdenite with Quartz, Kingsgate, New South Wales, Australia. [125x105x100mm]
blue Linarite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia – with an unknown spikey pseudomorph. [FOV: 40mm]
Copper from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Copper from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Copper from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Cabinet sized sample of Plumbian Orthoclase in Galena from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Smithsonite from the Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Rhodochrosite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Stolzite from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [75x40x30mm]
A miniature specimen of Native Silver wires on and included within Gypsum from the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) with Axinite-(Mn)?, specimen measures 40x35x15mm and is from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Mimetite from the Endeavor Mine (Elura Mine), Cobar, New South Wales, Australia. [45x25x20mm]
Shannonite? on Minium from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. [10mm]
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. [80x60x50mm]
Rhodochrosite on Calcite from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [100x30x15mm]
Historic specimen of Azurite from the Mount Hope Copper Mine, Mount Hope, New South Wales, Australia. 60mm tall.
Spessartine from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [110x75x70mm]
A large specimen of Calcite (Var: Manganoan) from a find in 2010 at the Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The specimen measures 200x90x90mm, the dogtooth crystals range in size from 5...
Stellerite from Tambar Springs, New South Wales, Australia. [70x60x15mm]
Rhodonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Small secondary Galena crystals with secondary cauliflower like structures of cream to light green Sphalerite. From the watercourse area, Browne’s shaft, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [80x55x30mm]
Gypsum from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [90x70x55mm]
Rhodochrosite on Pyrite on Calcite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [80x60x30mm]
Pyrargyrite, Siderite and Galena from Brownes Shaft, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [55x30x10mm]
Marshite (TL) , Smithsonite, Aurichalchite and Cuprite, with minor Malachite, Cerussite, Anglesite and Linarite from the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [28x15x12mm]
Rhodonite in Galena from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. [87x72x58mm]
Goethite coating Cerussite after Anglesite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Ex Milton Lavers. [110x90x35mm]
Rhodonite with Bannisterite from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Main crystal measures 70mm in length.
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) and Calcite from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [18x16x10mm]
Gypsum from the North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [90x65x15mm]
Green Hidalgoite with minor Rosasite from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [45x40x20mm]
Red Carminite with yellow-green beudantite-segnitite collected during a field trip in the 1990’s to Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [95x55x30mm]
Large cabinet sized specimen of yellowish-green Pyromorphite on greyish-white ‘straw’ Cerussite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Iridescent Goethite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [95x60x35mm]
Hedenbergite (Var: Manganoan Hedenbergite) with Galena from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [60x45x35mm]
A nice specimen of Inesite and Apophylite from North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [70x45x25mm]
Coronadite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [80x75x60mm]
Honey coloured Calcite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [70mm]
Pyromorphite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [50x50x7mm]
Tsumebite, Libethenite and Pyromorphite from Block 14, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Fluorapatite on Calcite and Fluorite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. [61x48x38mm]
Sampleite from the Endeavour 26 (E26 ore body), Goonumbla, New South Wales, Australia.
Kutnohorite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Cerussite & Anglesite on Coronadite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Baryte on Apophyllite with Inesite inclusions from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Azurite, Smithsonite, Malachite from Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 100x65x50mm.
Pale green tinted Smithsonite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Pale green-blue octahedral Fluorite crystals with Calcite on a matrix consisting of mostly Calcite, some Sphalerite and minor Pyrite – from North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 19.6 x 13.3 x 3.8cm.
Filliform crystals of Coronadite from Kintore opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 3mm.
Cupriantarbutite / Zincianolivenite – mid range from the Pinnacles dumps, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Turquoise from Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Labelled Adamite (Var: Cuprian Adamite) but probably Olivenite (Var: Zincian Olivenite) from Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Serpierite with Smithsonite & Cerussite from the Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Old Peter McLeod Collection c.1908
Linarite and Smithsonite from Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
A translucent yellow 1mm crystal of Sulphur on Anglesite and Galena from the Pinnacle Dumps (Blackwood open cut ore), Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Lithiophorite from Putty Beach Headland, Woy Woy, New South Wales, Australia.
Rare Na/Mn Silicate. Crystals up to 4mm. Mangano-Ferri Eckermannite from the Woods Mine, Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia.
Pyrosmalite-(Fe) from the early 1960’s find in Browne’s Section on the 13 level of the Junction Mine. This find is described in Birch ed (1999) Minerals of Broken Hill as probably the largest mass of...
Chalcophanite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Baryte on Manganoan Calcite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 40mm.
Bustamite in Galena from the Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [55x40x30mm]
Pyromorphite from the Blackwood Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Bustamite in Apophyllite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.[45x35x30mm]
Native Lead and Laumontite from the South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Smithsonite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Rhodochrosite (Var: Zincorhodochrosite) from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Bustamite and Galena from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.[50x40x35mm]
Baryte from the Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. These were sometimes referred to as corn flake Barytes by the locals. 140x80x35mm.
Bustamite with Apophyllite on Hedenbergite from 2900 Level, North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [55x50x15mm]
Rhodochrosite on Quartz from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.