Atacamite from the Block 14 Open Cut dumps at the Pinnacles Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Photo width 4.33mm and a stack of 78 images. Steve Sorrell Collection, ex Bernie Day Collection.
Category: Ex Bernie Day Collection
Raspite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Raspite, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Photo width ~11mm. Steve Sorrell Collection, ex Bernie Day Collection.
Pyromorphite, Block 14 Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Ca-rich pyromorphite, collected from the Block 14 Open Cut dumps at the Pinnacles Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. The photo width is 4.33mm and a stack of 126 images.
Described as Ca-rich pyromorphite for years, there was some thought that this might have been the relatively new species, phosphohedyphane. Kampf et al analysed specimens from Broken Hill when working on the determination of phosphohedyphane, and although it was identified from the locality, it was only as colourless crystals. The white form, such as this specimen, although Ca-rich, was deemed to be pyromorphite.
This specimen exhibits a pale pink fluorescence under longwave UV light.
Hemimorphite, Block 14 open cut, Broken Hill
A tiny spray of colourless hemimorphite crystals with associated tiny balls of pale blue aurichalcite, and also on the specimen, but not in shot, cerussite and smithsonite. Collected on the Block 14 dump material at the Pinnacles Mine. Photo width 3.25mm and stack of 37 images. Steve Sorrell Collection, ex Bernie Day Collection.
Spessartine, Block 14 open cut, Broken Hill
Spessartine from the Block 14 open cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Photo width 3.33mm and stack of 78 images. Steve Sorrell Collection, ex Bernie Day Collection.
