ncat JP3015 Johannsenite, Spessartine, Galena, North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Dark crystals on galena with a couple of spessartine garnets. Measures 21mm wide. Ex Jo Price Collection.
New South Wales
0820 Hedenbergite, Bustamite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Probably Mn-rich hedenbergite. Green crystals with pink to brown bustamite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1993 Jarosite, Gahnite, Southern Cross Mine, Northern Broken Hill Block, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Tiny brown crystals of jarosite with bluish-green gahnite, and unknown pale yellow, in quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3042 RI Jacobsite, Zinc Corp Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Jacobsite grains with mixed sulphides. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. 45mm wide.
6087 Osmium, Iridium, Fifield, Kennedy Co., New South Wales
Labelled as osmiridium (now determined to be iridium, as silver grains with hexagonal plates (which are most likely osmium)). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 24 images.
ncat AU006 Iodargyrite, Chlorargyrite, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Yellow-green bromium chlorargyrite (“embolite”) on white “snail trail” iodargyrite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0060 Iodargyrite, Kintore Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Pale-coloured crystals, some clearly showing hexagonal habit. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2174 Inesite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
A single 6mm long pinkish-brown transparent crystal without matrix. Interesting “inclusions”. Towards the bottom are things that look a bit like hexagonal wire fencing that we have used in the past around vegetable gardens an the like, known as chicken wire. These appear to be partly at and partly near...
ncat JLMAR02 JL399 Zircon, Ilmenite, Quartz, Byron Bay, Rous Co., New South Wales
Rounded zircons, mostly orange, but also pale pink, with black ilmenite, and a few colourless quartz crystals, from sands at Byron Bay. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1968. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1763 Ilmenite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Black mass of crystalline material embedded in matrix. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR2 Arsenic, New England arsenic, Clive, Clive Co., New South Wales
A crystalline mass of native arsenic showing some individual trigonal crystals. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1662 Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Natrolite, Ardglen Quarry, Ardglen, Buckland Co., New South Wales
A single white crystal of hydroxyapophyllite, with a few colourless needles of natrolite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.