NEW SOUTH WALES

TYPE MINERALS:

 

Barringtonite

Bernalite

Brokenhillite

Costibite

Ecandrewsite

Hoganite

Kintoreite

  
Greenish-yellow xls on limonite and or goethite; very good specimen; The specimen was originally labelled lusungite (or better lusungite group) in the early 1990's according to the alunite nomenclature of Scott (1987). In 1995 Lusungite was discredited and reinvestigation of the specimen showed it to be Kintoreite
Origin: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Sample size: 3 x 6 cm
© Diederik Visser
 
Origin: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Marshite

 
 
 
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
© Lou Perloff/Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Mawbyite

Orange-brown to deep reddish brown crusts of spherical aggregates on sandstone
Origin: Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia (type locality)
Sample size: 3.5 x 4 cm
© Diederik Visser
 
Mawbyite crystals (red) with segnitite
Origin: Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: crystals less than 1 mm across
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Mawsonite (Co-type)

Miersite

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
© Lou Perloff/Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Noélbensonite

Norrishite

See ungarettiite

Paceite

Paradocrasite

Raspite

Raspite with stolzite
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
© Lou Perloff/Photo-Atlas of Minerals
 
  
Raspite on limonite
Origin: Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia
ex. Ed Swoboda Collection
Sample size: 4.4 x 2.5 x 2 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
  
Origin: Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 3.2 x 5 x 4.6 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
Raspite with black coronadite
Origin: Broken Hill Proprietary Mine (Proprietary Mine; BHP Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Ex. Scott Williams collection
Sample size: 5.8 x 4.5 x 2.7 cm
© Dan Weinrich

Segnitite

Segnitite associated with carminite
The carminite dominates in this closer photo
Origin: Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia (type locality)
Sample size: field of view about 15 mm (top), field of view about 6 mm (bottom)
Sample owner: Vic Cloete
© Vic Cloete
 
  
Yellowish green diamond shaped crystals to about 0.5 mm on red carminite (which may be mawbyite).
Origin: Kintore Open pit, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia (type locality)
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 1 cm
© Tom Loomis

Ungarettiite

Reddish ungarettiite in norrishite
Origin: Hoskins Mine, Gienfall, NSW, Australia (type locality)
Sample size: capsule
© Diederik Visser

Wilkinsonite

Willyamaite
 

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