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


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Pyromorphite
Formula:Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Significance:"Dana Locality" - A locality listed in 19th century editions of Dana's 'System of Mineralogy.'
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Coronadite12 photos of Pyromorphite associated with Coronadite at this locality.
Galena12 photos of Pyromorphite associated with Galena at this locality.
Spessartine7 photos of Pyromorphite associated with Spessartine at this locality.
Stolziteⓘ5 photos of Pyromorphite associated with Stolzite at this locality.
Goethite5 photos of Pyromorphite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Smithsoniteⓘ3 photos of Pyromorphite associated with Smithsonite at this locality.
Cerussiteⓘ3 photos of Pyromorphite associated with Cerussite at this locality.
Sphaleriteⓘ3 photos of Pyromorphite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Sulphur3 photos of Pyromorphite associated with Sulphur at this locality.
Libethenite2 photos of Pyromorphite associated with Libethenite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyromorphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Photo GalleryView Gallery (58 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:763001
Long-form Identifier:1:3:763001:9
GUID (UUID V4):0b1a8918-0747-4ddc-b963-0b49502f9d91
Localities for Pyromorphite in this Region
Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Block 14, Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Central Mine (Block 9; ML 9), Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South 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
No. 3 Lens (No. 3 lead lens), Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Blackwood opencut, MMM Mine, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Junction Mine, Block 39, North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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. •
Book (edition)
Oman AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO •...practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience broaden our understanding...compilation of this second edition. Many of the new samples had to be prepared as polished sections,...Descriptions section has been expanded by some 70 new minerals, now adding up to a total of 502 species...many minerals. • All Mineral Photos (previous and new) were electronically enhanced through an increased
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 (issue)
from the GachalĂĄ mine, GuaviĂł-GuatĂŠque mining district, BoyacĂĄ Department, Colombia. Gail & Jim Spann...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...Dallas Gem and Mineral Society decided to form a new organization just for mineral collectors, without...collection, acquired in 1985 and placed on exhibit in a new hall the following year), and spearheaded by several...transplanted MAD members desirous of establishing a new collecting group with the same focus as the Houston
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, U.S.A. 3...857(1), c = 7.130(2) Å, V = 599.9(2) Å3, Z = 2, is a new mineral from the Capitana mine, Copiapó, Atacama...implications with respect to the chlorapatite-pyromorphite solid solution series. An analysis of compositions...compositions of natural members of the pyromorphite-mimetite-turneaureite-chlorapatite system suggests the...the existence of complete solid solution among pyromorphite, mimetite, hedyphane, and phosphohedyphane.
Journal (issue)
Act of 1974 are adopted almost exclusively. Thus Wales is divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd...surrounding Cardiff in Wales, which are simply referred to as Glamorgan. The new counties and county boroughs...19:18-23 CLARK, A.M. (1998) Earth's Treasury: A new exhibition in the Earth Galleries of the Natural...& SMITH, M.E. (1993) The Minerals of the Peak District of Derbyshire 13:16-55 see also SARJEANT, W.A...__& McCALLUM, D. (1993) Millerite from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. 12:22-24 __& TODD, J.G
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
August 2012 Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia IAN T. GRAHAM1,2 ROSS E POGSON1 1 Geoscience...Australian Museum 6 College Street, Sydney New South Wales 2010, Australia ian.graham@austmus.gov.au ross.pogson@austmus...Sciences University of New South Wales, Sydney New South Wales 2052, Australia Figure 1. The Albert Chapman...when most of it was purchased from him by the New South Wales Government in 1988. Included in the purchase...the finest crystallized specimens ever found in Australia, representing an important part of Australia’s
Journal (issue)
Volcanic zeolites and associated minerals from New South Wales .............................................the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ............................................................... 407 by A. Pring Broken Hill, New South Wales; a brief review ...................... Minerals from the Kintore opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales ......................................University of Wollongong Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500 Australia Thomas G. Vallance Department of Geology University
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
brought to the surface hundreds of tons of pyromorphite, and not realizing until later that it contained...contained lead, called it ‘‘coloured lead ore. ’’ PYROMORPHITE, Pb,(PO,),Cl, has been chosen by the Tucson...accessibility to collectors in the field or marketplace. Pyromorphite certainly meets these criteria, although specimens...specimens of pyromorphite come from the United Kingdom, Germany, Zambia, and Australia, but perhaps the...specimens found at Bunker Hill, Idaho, in the early 1980s. The name pyromorphite first appears in Hausmann’s
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:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 W Pyromorphite Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln]...Lincoln] at 23:16 02 June 2016 Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho 190 ROCKS...23:16 02 June 2016 I t is only fitting that pyromorphite should follow on the heels of its sister mineral...collector. Pyromorphite specimens seem to appear in relatively enormous amounts from new and exciting...are well known to collectors. Unlike mimetite, pyromorphite is historically important from localities in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
obtained for stolzite from Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia; the Fat Jack mine, Arizona; and Santa Rosa, Argentina...minerals including cerussite, anglesite, raspite, pyromorphite, mimetite, and scheelite. Relatively uninspiring...Massachusetts (Emerson 1895); Bartlett, Carroll County, New Hampshire; the Interstate 295 road cut at Cranston...mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the Silver Hill mine, Davidson County, North Carolina. It has been...mines, Aha district, Salt Lake County; and the Wilson Consolidated mine in the Gold Hill district, Tooele
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Leadhills in the heart of Scotland’s lead mining district; desiring to acquire complete suites of minerals...species. Working on material from the Scottish lead district, Brooke (1820, pp. 117–120) determined the next...at 00:22 14 October 2014 Figure 2. Arsenian pyromorphite pseudomorphing leadhillite crystals to 5 mm...can be set off with contrasting darker yellow pyromorphite or bright blue linarite and blue-green caledonite...linarite, caledonite, cerussite, susannite, and pyromorphite. It is not uncommon for remnant galena crystals
Catalog/List
AZURITE. Mount Oxide Mine, Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia. A 45x40mm area of matrix showing a rich dark...50x45x30mm. ÂŁ16. 5) AZURITE. Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia. Nice group of about 30 lustrous...CERUSSITE, MALACHITE and PYROMORPHITE. Browns Claim, Rum Jungle, North Territory, Australia. A mass of dark green...green malachite with yellowish pyromorphite at the edges. On the malachite are several cerussite xis...14) CRANDALLITE, PYRITE and AMETHYST. 15 Level South Lode, Wheal Jane, Kea, Cornwall. A matrix of lustrous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and 0.02 mm in thickness, in association with pyromorphite, quartz, limonite, and a clay mineral (potassic... PO4, and SO4 ions after crystallization of pyromorphite. - Keywords: Tsumebite, Brackebuschite group...described by Busz (1912) from Tsumeb, Namibia (former South West Africa). First, Busz (1912) and LaForge (1938)...composition of the mineral from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia was described by Birch (1990) and...Kisamori mine. Abbreviations: Tmb, tsumebite; Pym, pyromorphite. - - - - - - - - Figure 2. BSE image
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogy, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia W. D. BIRCH...328 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia J. DAWE Department of Chemistry, School of Physical...Hinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, 5042, Australia M. TAYLOR Department of Chemistry...Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, 5042, Australia M. DELIENS Department of Mineralogy...is a new lead iron phosphate mineral in the alunite-jarosite family, from Broken Hill, New South Wales
Report (issue)
Pyromorphite Pb5 (PO4 )3 Cl c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal...Cumbria. Large masses from the Horcajo mines, 35 km south of Brazatortas, Ciudad Real Province, Spain. In...Phoenixville, Chester Co., Pennsylvania; large crystal groups from the Bunker Hill and other mines, Kellogg...Kellogg, Coeur d’Alene district, Shoshone Co., Idaho. At the Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia...Chihuahua, Mexico. At Broken Hill, New South Wales, and Mt. Isa, Queensland, Australia. From the Touissit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
910–917, 2008 Birchite, a new mineral from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia: Description and structure...Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia 2 South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia...5000, Australia 3 School of Chemistry and Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005...5005, Australia 4 Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory...Territory 0200, Australia 5 Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abt., Naturhistorisches Museum, A-1010 Wien, Austria
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
666 Museum Victoria Melbourne, Victoria 3001 Australia dhenry@museum.vic.gov.au B William “Bill” David...Pinnacles mine, 15 kilometers southwest of Broken Hill, New South Wales (Elliott et al. 2008). Birchite formed...associated with cerussite and anglesite, white pyromorphite, libethinite, and sampleite. It forms part of...specimen is preserved in the Department of Mineralogy, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. irchite was named...Block 14 dumps at the Pinnacles mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Museum Victoria specimen (M50561),
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rovnost mine, the Jáchymov (St. Joachimsthal) ore district, western Bohemia (Czech Republic). Mimetite occurs...wulfenite, philipsbornite–segnitite minerals, pyromorphite and metazeunerite were determined based on powder...discovered in the Rovnost mining field, Jáchymov ore district, western Bohemia, Czech Republic. The subsequent...Budapest (Sejkora et al. 2010b). The Jáchymov ore district, located in the vicinity of the namesake town...Joachimsthal), is a classic example of an Ag + As + Co + Ni + Bi + U vein-type hydrothermal mineralization
Book
MINERAL COLLECTING LOCALITIES OF THE BROKEN HILL DISTRICT I. R. PLIMER Dr Ian Plimer is a lecturer in...University College of the University of New South Wales at Broken Hill First published 1977 Copyright o...Plimer All rights reserved National Library of Australia Card and ISBN 0 909209 06 S Designed and produced...165 King Wiliiam Road, Hyde Park, South Australia Typeset in Australia by Typecraft Pty Ltd, Adelaide Printed...Printed in Hong Kong PREFACE The Broken Hill area is well known not only for its mineral wealth but
Report (issue)
====================================== What’s New in the Mineral World? Report #40 April 21, 2015 by...Time now for a spring-seasonal survey of what’s new on the web. By now most dealers who made their pilgrimages...recovered, and taken account of whatever (in the way of new minerals) they picked up there, and here you’ll see...to the Weinrichs’ site announces that more, brand-new (i.e. post-Tucson) galena specimens have been taken...dealerships—at the Tucson Show, and with a couple of other new things as well. First, we have some of the best-yet
Catalog/List
has been broken off to reveal silvery native bismuth. Old label. 30x30x15mm. ÂŁ18. 7) CALCITE (Co). Tynebottom...30x20x20mm. ÂŁ30. 14) CASSITERITE ALLUVIAL. Neineis, South West Africa. A single dark brown water worn pebble...(var EMBOLITE) and CERUSSITE. Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. A large piece of limonitic gossan...of "embolite" with a few blades of cerussite. Ex South Australian Museum. Their label and Simon Harrison...fibrous xls without matrix. 70x50x40mm. ÂŁ75. 34) PYROMORPHITE on BARITE. Les Farges Mine, Puy de Dome, France
Book (edition)
STERLING Cok Tree Press PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Co., Ltd NEW YORK London & Sydney ST. PAUL PUBLIC...Published by Sterling Publishing Co, Inc. 419 Park Avenue South, New York 10016 British edition published...Press Co., Ltd., Nassau, Baham as Distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Oak Tree Press Co., Ltd...Ltd., P.O. Box 34, Brickfield Hill, Sydney 2000, N.S.W. Distributed in the United Kingdom and elsewhere... fundamental unit. 5. CarBonates: Carbonate ion (CO,) is fundamental 4 unit. 6. Borares: Borate ion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fluorescence in Pyromorphite and Other Lead Apatites M A N U E L ROBBINS Manning Lane Cherry Hill, New Jersey...many minerals from localities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey which I found the most in­ teresting, since...accessible and could be easily reached from my home in New Jersey. Among these were the mines at Phoenixville...attractive of all, clusters of dark grass-green pyromorphite crystals in the form of barrels, hexagonal cylinders...they may fluoresce, because only some of the pyromorphite from this locality fluo­ resces. Other minerals
 
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