NEW SOUTH WALES

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Cuprian adamite

Origin: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Alabandite

Brown alabandite microcrystals preferentially coating brain-like, pink manganoan calcite.

Origin: Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Ed Ruggiero collection

Sample size: 5.5 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm

Almandine

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 2 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm

Origin: Bullahdelah, New South Wales, Australia
Erling Collection

Sample size: 3 x 3 x 1 cm

Origin: Eurowie, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Andalusite

Variety chiastolite

Origin: Broken Hill, NSW, Australia

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 5.7 x 3.0 x 2.7 cm

Anglesite pseudomorph after cerussite

Origin: Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 4.2 x 3 cm

This specimen is comprised of crystalline anglesite and off yellowish coloured crystals of cerussite

Origin: Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 5.1 x 4 x 3.4 cm

This specimen is comprised of anglesite pseudomorphs after cerussite. The twinned nature of the original cerussite is clearly visible in the pseudomorphs.

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Frank Edwards collection

Sample size: 8.5 x 5.7 x 5.2 cm

A cluster of large blocky cerussite crystals to 4.3 cm in size, mostly coated by small colourless anglesite crystals.

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 5.3 x 5.8 x 4.3 cm

Anglesite on cerussite

Anglesite on cerussite. Ex. Don Belsher collection

Origin: Broken Hill, NSW, Australia

Sample size: 7.6 x 4.5 x 5.3 cm (top), 6.7 x 6.7 x 6.2 cm (bottom)

Origin: Broken Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. S. Nasser collection

Sample size: 3.3 x 2.5 x 2.4 cm

Origin: Broken Hill Proprietary Mine (Proprietary Mine), Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Gene Tribbey collection

Sample size: 6.8 x 4.3 x 2.7 cm

Anglesite on cerussite

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Don Belsher collection

Sample size: 7 x 7 x 6.3 cm

Aragonite

Origin: Tindals Quarry, Kyogle, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: field of view 3 mm (left), 2.1 mm (2nd photo), 2 mm (third photo), 3 mm (4th photo), 1.6 mm (last photo)

Sample owner: Sue and Phil Ericksson

Origin: Broken Hill Proprietary mine (Proprietary mine), Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Gene Tribbey Collection

Sample size: 3 x 1.5 x 5.2 cm

Origin: Shuttleton, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 4.6 x 4.4 x 1.3 cm

Origin: Cobar, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 29 x 18 x 17 mm

Azurite with brochantite and chlorargyrite, older specimen, collected around 50 years ago or earlier

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: field of view 4 mm

Sample owner: K & M Brown

Cluster of azurite on quartz

This lustrous azurite is exceptional, presents almost black, but under intense light shows transparency and overgrowth on malachite(?) clusters just below the surface.

Origin: New Cobar Mine, Cobar, Cobar, Robinson Co., New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 4 mm cluster (top), near 3 mm (bottom)

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Bannisterite with rhodonite twin

Ex. Steve Smale collection

Origin: Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 1.6 cm (top/2nd row), 9.7 x 5.2 x 4.5 cm (bottom)

Origin: Wilson's Pegmatite, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Barite

Origin: Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Scott Williams collection

Sample size: 30 x 18 x 6 mm

Bayldonite

Origin: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Beraunite

Origin: Block 14 Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Origin: Red Lode, The Gulf, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 5 x 5 x 25 mm

Origin: Torrington, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Keith Hayes collection

Sample size: 0.9 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm (largest)

Origin: Kingsgate, New South Wales, Australia
ex. Crunden Collection

Sample size: 10 x 8 x 8 cm

Origin: Kingsgate Mines, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 2.4 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm

Pristine and unusual bismuth crystal perched in a fairly open quartz matrix.

Origin: Kingsgate, Gough Co., New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 2 mm bismuth crystal

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Metallic brassy mass of bismuth with crude crystal faces. Very high specific gravity, associated with molybdenite.

Origin: Kingsgate, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 6 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm

Boulangerite

Boulangerite on rhodochrosite

Origin: Pinnacles Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 4.3 x 4.3 x 2.3 cm

Bromargyrite on silver

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Embolite (combination of bromargyrite and chlorargyrite) on barite

Origin: Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 5.5 x 4.5 cm

Coating of bromargyrite on limonitic matrix

Origin: Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia

Ex. Don Belsher collection

Sample size: 8.1 x 4.7 x 4 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, NSW, Australia

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 4.7 x 3.9 x 3.5 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 4 x 2.2 x 1.1 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Ex. DeVito Collection

Sample size: 7 x 3 x 3 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 11.7 x 7 x 3.3 cm (top), 2.4 x 2.7 x 4.5 cm (bottom)

Brown crude crystal section of bustamite with minor galena

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 2.7 x 2.7 x 3.2 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Martin Zinn collection

Sample size: 6.2 x 1.7 x 0.9 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3 cm

Origin: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

A rich specimen of carminite (red) in association with segnitite(TL) (yellow)

Origin: Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Origin: Bullfrog shaft, Kathida mine, The Gulf, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 32 mm across

Origin: Emmaville, New South Wales, Australia
Erling Collection

Sample size: 1.3 cm (left), 1.4 cm (right)

Origin: Inverell, New South Wales, Aaustralia

Sample size: 1.6 x 1.3 x 1.1 cm

Origin: Elsmore, Inverell, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Tom Dwyer coll.

Sample size: 25 x 18 x 31 mm

Origin: Elsmore, Inverell, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 18 x 17 x 15 mm

Origin: Inverell, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 18 x 16 x 7 mm

Cassiterite with smoky quartz

Origin: Ellsmore, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Marty Lewadny collection

Sample size: 5.8 x 4.9 x 4.8 cm

Origin: Elsmore, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Willard Perkin collection

Sample size: 25 x 22 x 17 mm

Cassiterite with quartz

Origin: Inverell, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 17 x 18 x 13 mm

Cassiterite on quartz

Origin: Cathida Mine, Emmaville, Gough Co., New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 3 x 4 x 4.7 cm

Origin: Elsmore, NSW, Australia

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 9.0 x 4.6 x 4.5 cm

This specimen is just about all cerussite with at least two generations. The larger reticulated crystals have smaller 1 cm v-twins scattered about it. The surface of the larger and older generation cerussite crystals appear to have minute crystals of smithsonite to no more than 0.5 mm in length.

Origin: Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 10 x 7.6 x 6.5 cm (top), 7.3 x 5.2 x 3.4 cm (bottom)

This specimen is almost all cerussite as single crystals and small cyclic twins

Origin: Block 14 Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 5.3 x 3.1 x 2.3 cm

A rich lead-mineral combo specimen from Broken Hill, consisting of intergrown cerussite blades with associated anglesite.

Origin: Broken Hill New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 5 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm

Cerussite pseudomorph after anglesite with brown coating of goethite

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 4.3 x 3.4 x 1.8 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 10 x 5 x 2 cm

Origin: Eleura Mine, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 11.6 x 4.5 x 4.2 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 6 x 3.5 x 5.7 cm

Cerussite twin

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Don Belsher collection

Sample size: 3.5 x 1.8 x 4.5 cm

Origin: Block 14 Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 27 x 22 x 22 mm

Origin: Dundas, Tasmania, Australia

Ex. Mark Wrigley collection

Sample size: 8 x 5.8 x 4.1 cm

Cerussite on hematite

Origin: Pinnacles Mine dumps, reclaimed from the Block 14 Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 15 mm

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Cerussite with malachite

Cerussite on azurite, this cerussite cluster is large by New Cobar standards

Origin: New Cobar Mine, Cobar, Cobar, Robinson Co., New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: larger cerussite is just 0.5 mm (top), cluster 1.5 mm (bottom

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Brown earthy cerussite (probably with limonite inclusions) pseudomorph after anglesite with cerussite

Origin: Kintore Open Cut (1989), Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 7.0 x 5.6 x 4.3 cm

Origin: Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 7.7 x 5.3 x 3.7 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 9.7 x 5.2 x 1.5 cm

Origin: Block 11, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex Lionel Campbell collection, ex Albert Chapman collection

Sample size: 6 x 6 x 4 cm

Chlorargyrite with cerussite and chlorargyrite pseudomorph after galena

Origin: Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex BHP Coll., ex Chris Johnson Coll.

Sample size: 7.5 x 7 x 4.5 cm

Chlorargyrite with azurite

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2.25 cm

Chlorargyrite with azurite

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2.25 cm (top/2nd row), 4.7 x 3.9 x 2.9 cm (3rd/bottom row)

Embolite (Br-chlorargyrite)

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Kaar collection

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 3 cm

Lustrous, 3 mm, yellow chlorargyite crystal in a vug with micro iodargyrite crystals

Origin: Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 5.7 x 3.2 x 2.9 cm

Bromian chlorargyrite (embolite)

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Dick Hauck, Eugene Sensel collections

Sample size: 5.8 x 4.2 x 2.7 cm

This specimen of gossan has some emormous crystals of chlorargyrite. The largest is 0.7 cm across! Chlorargyrite is a simple halide of silver with the chemical formula AgCl. In this specimen there is a moderate amount of bromine replacing the chlorine - hence it is referred to as embolite though this is not a recognized mineral species.

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 3.5 x 2.7 x 1.9 cm

Embolite, bromian chlorargyrite

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Don Belsher collection

Sample size: 4.8 x 2.8 x 1.8 cm

Chlorargyrite with copper

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 4.2 x 2 x 3.8 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Don Belsher collection

Sample size: 5.6 x 3.6 x 1.4 cm

Bromian chlorargyrite ("embolite")

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Richard Barstow collection

Sample size: 7.6 x 6.5 x 4 cm

Bromian chlorargyrite ("embolite")

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 7.3 x 6.9 x 4.4 cm (top), 5.9 x 5.0 x 1.5 cm (bottom)

Bromian chlorargyrite with minor barite

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. South Autralia Museum collection

Sample size: 6.5 x 4.5 x 4.0 cm

Sparse waxy yellowish-green micro crystals of bromian chlorargyrite ("embolite") on goethite matrix

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 4 x 3.6 x 4.5 cm

Bromian chlorargyrite with azurite

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Earl Calvert collection

Sample size: 4.3 x 3.3 x 2.3 cm

Bromian chlorargyrite with spessartine (?)

Origin: Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Hollis Page and Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 5.2 x 4.3 x 1.7 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 27 x 10 x 39 mm

Specimen from the upper levels of the famous Broken Hill deposit of lustrous, discrete, green chlorargyrite crystals with a scattering of tiny, gemmy, orange miersite crystals.