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Miersite from
Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Miersite
Formula:(Ag,Cu)I
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cuprite12 photos of Miersite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Serpierite2 photos of Miersite associated with Serpierite at this locality.
Agardite-(Y)1 photo of Miersite associated with Agardite-(Y) at this locality.
Adamite1 photo of Miersite associated with Adamite at this locality.
Rosasite1 photo of Miersite associated with Rosasite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Miersite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (7 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:762020
Long-form Identifier:1:3:762020:1
GUID (UUID V4):561f17c2-04ba-4106-b5a9-056d67e21932
Localities for Miersite in this Region
Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
MMM Mine, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Marshite-miersite solid solution and iodargyrite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia P. W. MILLSTEED...2616 Australia ABSTRACT Microprobe analysis of marshite and miersite from Broken Hill, Australia, demonstrate...increase from 6.054 A for marshite to 6.504 A for miersite, closely following Vegard's Law. The Cu content...% Cu. Crystallization of either miersite or iodargyrite at Broken Hill appears to be dependent upon the...iodargyrite, Broken Hill, solid solution, copper, silver. Introduction TnE Broken Hill silver-lead-zinc
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
highgrade iodide mineralization comprising marshite, miersite, and iodargyrite has been discovered in the oxidation...to 1 vol %, occasionally reaching 7–10 vol %. Miersite occurs sporadically in association with both iodargyrite...7.519 Å). Isostructural cubic marshite CuI and miersite (Ag,Cu)I make up an isomor phic series within...are iodides proper: iodargyrite AgI (hexagonal), miersite (Ag,Cu)I (cubic), marshite CuI, moschelite Hg2I2...occurrences, but everywhere, except for the Broken Hill deposit in Aus tralia, it occurs in small amounts
Journal (issue)
Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement To The Mineralogical Record, September–October 2020 ... Mineral Collections in Australia Organized by Robert Sielecki Designed by Wendell Wilson with Photography...September–October, 2020 Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September–October...level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian Museum;...Top row from left: • 6 cm, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman photo. •
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Broken Hill New South Wales, Australia Downloaded by [University of Delaware] at 04:06 05 October 2014...Victoria GPO Box 666 Melbourne, Victoria 3001 Australia bbirch@museum.vic.gov.au Unless otherwise noted...Proprietary mine. Broken Hill Geocentre specimen. T he rich silver-lead-zinc deposit at Broken Hill, in far-western...far-western New South Wales, has fascinated miners, geologists, and mineralogists for more than 120 years...orebody continues to be a great testing ground for new concepts in ore genesis, in the process provoking
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2]liersite and Iodyrite from Broke'~ Itill, New South Wales. By L. J. SI~ZNCER, M.A., F.G.S., Assistant...1854. Other iodides are marshite and the new mineral miersite ; iodobromite and schwartzembergite also...be doubtful; the supposed mercury iodide from Broken Hill consists of an intimate mixture of cinnabar and...copper i o d i d e " were discovered at Broken Hill, New South Wales, by C. W. Marsh, '~ in 1892. The results..."Geology of the Broken ttill Lode ~nd Barrier Ranges Mineral Field, New South Wales," Memoirs Geol. Survey
Report (issue)
Miersite (Ag, Cu)I c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Cubic. Point Group:...X-ray Powder Pattern: Locality not stated [Broken Hill, Australia]. 3.23 (s), 2.28 (m), 1.948 (m), 3.72 (w)...1.290 (vw) Chemistry: Ag Cu I Total (1) Broken Hill, Australia. (2) AgI. Occurrence: arid regions. (1)...cuprite (Broken Hill, Australia); gerhardtite, likasite (Likasi, Congo). Distribution: From Broken Hill, New...New South Wales, Australia. In the USA, at the Contention mine and Joe shaft, Tombstone; in the Southwest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
corundum-quartz assemblage from the Bond range, Tasmania, Australia, 325 AGRELL, S.O., 265 Aheylite, re-examination...volcanic rocks from the Bond range, Tasmania, Australia, 325 Andradite, formation from fluid movements... T., 801 AsHwoarn, J.R., 213 AUSTRALIA, Broken Hill, marshite-miersite solid solution and iodargyrite...-sanidine in Lionato Tuff, Colli Albani Volcanic District, Central Italy, petrogenetic implications of,...CIIARNLEY,N.R., 265 Chemical and optical data, of new mineral, tsugarite, from thc Yunosawa minc, Aomori
Report (issue)
= 2.5-3.5 (by analogy to bideauxite, marshite, miersite). D(meas.) = n.d. D(calc.) = 6.465-6.505 Optical...50.01 42.65 2.02 . 100.00 (1) Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; average of 10 electron microprobe...anglesite. Distribution: From Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Name: Honors Russian mineralogist...Siidraite, Pb2Cu(OH)2I3, from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia: the third halocuprate(I) mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kilbrickenite with Geocronite : and Analyses of Miersite, Marshite, and CoTper-Tyrites. By G. T. l ~ o...preceding year that L. F. Svanberg had described a new mineral, geocronite s, to which he assigned the formula...formula 5PbS.(Sb, As)sS s. The announcement of this new mineral appears to have escaped Apjohn's notice,... he would probably not have ventured to found a new species on the result of an analysis of a massive...geocronite (' kilbriekenite') from Kilbricken mine, Co. Clare; under I I that of a recent analysis by G
Report (issue)
ILLINOIS LIBRARY i ^ 6^2.09 S ^^ 2 . ) I NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPARTMENT OF MINES. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland Subject...Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p. 95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia:...name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining field, and...north-west of C.”; A, B, and C may all be in the same district, but it is sometimes difficult or impossible to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
greenish colour probably contained bromine. The new bromide and chloro-bromide, together with the chloride...of the silver ores of Broken Hill, A. Liversidge pointed out 5 that ' all the New 1 Zeits. Kryst. Min....T. P R I O R A X D L. J . S P E N C E R ON South Wales silver chloride specimens' which he had examined...greenish -grey ,, 'Peru Copiapo, Chili S. America Broken Hill ,, Plateros, Mexico ,, ,. . ,, ,, some . .... . little some much much some ,, ,, Broken Hill pale greenish-grey some " ,, ~ pale gree sh-yellow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
greenish colour probably contained bromine. The new bromide and chloro-bromide, together with the chloride...of the silver ores of Broken Hill, A. Liversidge pointed out 5 that ' all the New 1 Zeits. Kryst. Min....T. P R I O R A X D L. J . S P E N C E R ON South Wales silver chloride specimens' which he had examined...greenish -grey ,, 'Peru Copiapo, Chili S. America Broken Hill ,, Plateros, Mexico ,, ,. . ,, ,, some . .... . little some much much some ,, ,, Broken Hill pale greenish-grey some " ,, ~ pale gree sh-yellow
Journal (issue)
.................................... 398 What's New ..................................... .............Bancroft Peter L. Via Salim Edde Daniel Trinchillo Lyda Hill Scott A. Rudolph Daniel J. Record Gail & Jim Spann...45, July- August, 2014 also enjoyed collecting New Mexican Indian Pottery (from 1960 forward), art glass...and Illinois), smithsonite, worldwide minerals, new finds, Arkansas minerals, etc. That was also the...Died, Stan Lesnick, 88 Stanley Lesnick was born in New York City on December 27, 1925, the son of Jenny
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
British Museum building in Bloomsbury to the new museum at South Kensington had been completed in 1881, there...also Spencer's care. He had assisted Miers with the new (20th) edition in 1895 and he himself prepared further...Machacamarca, Bolivia. At first thought to be a new phosphate, the crystals were identified .with augelite...Museum specimens, tables of angles establishing new forms, parameters, habits, twinning, parallel growths...group' ; and 'The crystallography of plagionite: new crystal forms on stephanite, enargite and anglesite'
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3/53 Dixon Street Coolangatta, Queensland 4225 Australia AS T O T H E T R U T H O F I T , I know not,...1865, on Sema­ phore beach near Adelaide in South Australia, a small boy wandered on the sands and pondered...from saltwater, often about as far from it, in Australia, as anyone can get. Figure 1: The only known...firsthand. It was a time when the rich ores of the many South Australian copper mines at Burra Burra, Wallaroo...was also influenced by the Cornish miners in South Australia. In Great Britain and Europe, collecting mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystallographic catalogue. He described as new the minerals miersite, tarbuttite, parahopeite, chroroxiphite...aramayoite and bismutotantalite, besides supplying much new data on incompletely describedspecies.In later years...meteoriteswas renewedand greatly stimulated by his visit to south-west-Africa in 1929where he studied the meteorites...issues (1895, 1926). He supplied triennially lists of new mineral names (21 lists in all), and obituary notices...lived to)see Mineralogical Abstractsappear in a new format as a joint publication of the British and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Siidraite, Pb2Cu(OH)2I3, from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia: the third halocuprate(I) mineral...Pb2Cu(OH)2I3, is a new mineral from the Broken Hill deposit in New South Wales, Australia. It occurs as an...five long Pb–I bonds are required to complete the co-ordination of each Pb atom. The resulting Pb(OH)3I5...16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 3 co 8 un 7 Department of Earth Sciences, Natural...Key-words: siidraite; new mineral; halocuprate(I); [Pb4(OH)4]4þ group; iodine; Broken Hill. 31 1. Introduction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carlos (Arizona, USA), RhĂśn (Germany), Victoria (Australia), and Saudi Arabia. The authors draw four geological...(QuĂŠbec) G1K 7P4 Minerals of Broken Hill. By William D. Birch (ed.). Broken Hill City Council and Museum of...Kersten Geocentre, P.O. Box 448, Broken Hill, New South Wales 2880, Australia. Ph/Fax 61 (08) 8087 6538; e-mail:...in 1982, this updated version of Minerals of Broken Hill commemorates the centenary of 1305 38#5-oct...of nature, science and art. Small wonder, for Broken Hill places among the top five sources of mineral
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to the approved definitions of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and the Commission on...material of species approved by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names. For material described...likely to be continually updated in the light of new research and reappraisal of earlier work. The authors...(Cotype) BM 1979,00135 Green River Fonnation, Uintah Co., Utah, USA A. Pabst, P.A. Estep, E.J. Dwornik, R... 7, p. 1221. Aerugite (Neotype) BM 1963,00481 South Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IMA CNMNC. Just as sometimes one can discover a new mineral species simply by consulting existing publications...Minerals’’ published on the web site of the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC)...orthojoaquinite-(La) (a new species). Consequently, a proposal was submitted to the Commission on New Minerals and...its discreditation Churchite-(Nd) is a supposed new mineral species with formula Nd(PO4)2H2O (Podporina...(15 at. % of the lanthanides, excluding Y). The ‘new variety’ is called Nd-churchite. Discussion A useless
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
INDEX TO VOL. XIII. (See also 'List of New Mineral Names," p. 363.) Abyssinia, petrology, 89, 259. Aden~...petrology, 228 Albite, Haddam Neck, 115. Altaite, W. Australia~ 278. Amphibolite, E. Africa, 230. Analysis of...193, 194, 205~ 209~ 304, 327, 829, 348, 351. Broken Hill, N.S.W., 88, 177. Bromargyrite, 175. Brookite...(H. Y. L), Mining Handbook and geol. map of S. Australia, 194. Bye-laws~ v. Badenite, 207. Bakerite, 353...380. Calaverite, cryst., Colo~ad% 122. - - W. Australia, 270. Calcite, conditions of growth, 392. - -
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the isomorphic series of marshite (Cu,Ag)I–miersite (Ag,Cu)I with a sphaleritetype structure and... Further increase in the concentration of the miersite component results in a strong decrease in photoluminescence...highsilver marshite (>43 mol % AgI), as well as miersite. Iodargirite does not demonstrate ultraviolet...represented by the 2H polytype, whereas marshite and miersite form a long isomorphic series, with the most significant...important component were mined in the Broken Hill deposit (Australia) at the end of the nineteenth century
Journal (issue)
Robert L. Reuss Famous Mineral Localities-Broken Hill, Australia..........................................streetcar, sub­ way, ferries and commuter railroads. In New Jersey, West Paterson and Prospect Park were operating...picking table provided the ultimate. The Bedford, New York, pegmatites were working, and the basalt accessories...including boleite from Montana, coppers from Arizona and New Mexico, and others. Of course, in my case they were...Such affairs can well be the solution to “Where are new collectors coming from?”. Regularly scheduled activities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral occurring in several mines of the Goldfield district, Nevada, as pearly scales of brilliant and almost...that of the recently described bismoclite.s The new analysis of the mineral from Nevada (from type specimenpreviously...164 (l9ll). 3 Mountain. E. D., Two new bismuth minerals frorn South A{rica (Bismoclite from Steinkopf...known whether the per cent and a half of HzO* in the new analysis indicates a trend towards daubreeite,or... Iodyrite from Tonopah, Nevada, and Broken Hill, New South Wales: Am Jour. Sci.,4th ser., 27,213 (lg}9)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
& Francis Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...com/loi/taje20 The mineralogical history of the Broken Hill Lode, NSW Ian R. Plimer a a Department of...& Geophysics , University of New England , Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia Published online: 01 Aug 2007...Plimer (1984) The mineralogical history of the Broken Hill Lode, NSW, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences:
 
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