NEW SOUTH WALES

OTHER MINERALS:

Copper

  
Copper altering to malachite
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
© Lou Perloff/Photo-Atlas of Minerals
 
     
Origin: Block #14, Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 6.5 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Moonta, South Australia
Sample size: 4.5 x 4.5 x 3.3 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Ex. Ernie Schlichter collection
Sample size: 3.8 x 3 x 2.6 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
Origin: Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
ex. Dr. Mark Feinglos Collection
Sample size: 4.5 x 3 x 1.5 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
           
Spinel-twinned copper crystals partially coated with cuprite
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 5.4 x 5.0 x 4.1 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
        
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Ex. Marty Lewadny collection
Sample size: 4.7 x 2.7 x 1 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 

Coronadite

     
This specimen has lath shaped crystals of coronadite mostly covered by globular masses of nearly colourless smithsonite.
Origin: South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 6.8 x 5.3 x 3.1 cm
© John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co
 
  
Smithsonite on coronadite
  
Calcite on coronadite
Origin: Kintore Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 8.5 cm x 1.5 cm (top), 7.5 x 8 2.5 cm (bottom)
© Rob Lavinsky
 

Corundum

Origin: Glen Elgin creek, near Deepwater, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 8 x 6 x 8 mm
© Dan Weinrich
 
Cuprite
 
     
Cuprite-coated copper
Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 5.1 x 3.5 x 2.3 cm
© Rob Lavinsky

Dufrenite

Libethenite on dufrenite
Origin: Block 14 Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Erythrite
  
 
  
Origin: Carcoara, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 5.5 x  6x 5 cm (top), 4.5 x 3 x 1.5 cm (bottom)
© Tom Loomis
Ferrimolybdite
 
Origin: Kingsgate, Gough Co., New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 20 mm cluster
Sample owner: Vic Cloete
© Vic Cloete

Galena

Origin: Bartlett's Mine, Yerranderie, NSW, Australia
Sample size: micromount
© Diederik Visser

 

Ganophyllite

See rhodonite

Gold

  
Origin: Tibboburra, North West Outback, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 5 x 4.5 x 1.1 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
        
Origin: Victoria Gold Fields, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 4.8 x 3.3 x 2 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
Greenockite
     
Origin: Broken Hill Mine,  New South Wales, Australia
Ex. Don Boydston collection
Sample size: 7.5 x 4.7 x 3.1 cm
© John Veevaert

 

 

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