NEW SOUTH WALES

OTHER MINERALS:

Stolzite

 
 
 
 
 
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
© Lou Perloff/Photo-Atlas of Minerals
 
  
Origin: Broken Hill mine,, NSW, Australia
Eaton Collection
Sample size: 2.3 x 2 x 2 cm, crystals to 1 mm
© Tom Loomis
 
  
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 14.1 x 11.5 x 4.2 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
     
 
  
Origin: Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 4 cm (top), 10.5 x 6 x 5 cm (bottom)
© John Veevaert
 
        
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Ex. Mark Feinglos collection
Sample size: 8.1 x 7.0 x 4.3 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Broken Hill , New South Wales, Australia
Ex. John & Linda Stimson collection
Sample size: 3.4 x 3.2 x 2.0 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
     
Origin: Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Sample size: 7.6 x 6 x 5 cm
© John Veevaert
 
  
Pale yellowish waxy blocky crystals of stolzite to 5 x 6 x 3 mm in size are scattered about a matrix of micro crystalline pyromorphite. Ex. Don Belsher collection
  
Tiny sparkling lustrous carmel coloured blocky micro crystals of stolzite are sparsely set upon matrix.
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 4.5 x 2.7 x 2.7 cm (top), 3 x 3.3 x 1.7 cm (bottom)
© Dan Weinrich
 
     
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 3.6 x 3.0 x 2.6 cm
© Rob Lavinsky

Sturtite

Origin: Broken Hill mine, NSW, Australia
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 4 cm
© Tom Loomis
 
  
Sturtite is doubtful as a valid species, most likely being a member of the hisingerite-neotocite series. It was first discovered at Broken Hill in 1930. The example is rich, with brownish masses.
Origin: Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Sample size: 27 x 26 x 15 mm
© Dan Weinrich
 
Takovite
 
  
Light green earthy material (colour in the photos is too blue)
Origin: Carr Boyd mine, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia
Ex. Polak collection
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 2 cm
© Tom Loomis
 

Topaz

Origin: Backwater Creek, Torrington, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 13 x 8 x 15 mm
© Dan Weinrich
Tsumebite
 
Origin: Block 14 Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Vauquelinite

Origin: Kinto open pit, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
© Lou Perloff/Photo-Atlas of Minerals
 
 
Greenish-brown to black wedge-shaped tiny crystals with pyromorphite and pharmacosiderite on matrix
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 2 x 3 cm
© Diederik Visser
 
Origin: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Wolfeite
 
Origin: Wilson's Pegmatite, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Wulfenite

Origin: New Cobar Mine, Cobar, Cobar, Robinson Co., New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: main crystal just under 1 mm long
Sample owner: Vic Cloete
© Vic Cloete
 

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