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RETICULATED CERUSSITE & SMITHSONITE
Block 14, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Collected Circa 1898-Cabinet
This form of Cerussite was the first to be encountered at Broken Hill, not far below the original outcrop,
Fine example of this form of Cerussite and well over 100 years old!
#1613 Professor Laurie Lawtence Collection (Aust)
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STOLZITE & PLUMBOGUMMITE (REVERSE)
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Circa 1898-Cabinet
Huge example of a rare & desirable species from Broken Hill! this has great coverage & large crystals for this species and is yet again well over 100 years old!
#446 Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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NATIVE CRYSTALINE COPPER
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Circa 1898-Lg. Miniature
This specimen is also an old excellant fine example of Native Copper from Broken Hill.
Originally from the turn of the 19th Century Australian collector George Smith
#23 Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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NATIVE CRYSTALINE COPPER
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Circa 1898-Lg. Miniature
This specimen is also an old excellant fine example of Native Copper from Broken Hill.
Originally from the turn of the 19th Century Australian collector George Smith
#24 Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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SMITHSONITE ON CORONADITE
South Mine Open Cut, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Cabinet
Classic example of Teardrop Smithsonite coating both sides of stalagtic black Coronadite on this specimen.
Fine example!
#385 Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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RASPITE
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Cabinet
Named after Charles Rasp the finder of the fabulous Broken Hill Lode-Raspite is one of the rarest minerals found here mostly in small attractive gemmy crystals such as on this fine cabinet specimen & is highly sought after & coveted!
Excellant example!
#453 Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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SMITHSONITE
The Open Cut, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Cabinet
Fine example of Smithsonite of blue/green color in a botroidal mound that no fine Broken Hill collection would be complete without a specimen like this! another Broken Hill classic piece!
#279 Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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SMITHSONITE
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Circa 1898-Cabinet
Another very early specimen from the early history of Broken Hill that consists of large crystals of white dogtooth Smithsonite in a fine cabinet piece-this is comparable to the specimen on page 180 fig. 148 of the Minerals of Broken Hill from the same mine
#384 Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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BROMIUM CHLORARGYRITE
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Circa 1898-Cabinet
A fine example of this rare silver halide (embolite) in waxy vermiform crystals on a dark matrix possibly Psimolane that occured throughout the Broken Hill Line of Lode.
#483 Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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BUSTAMITE
North Broken Hill Consolidated Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Cabinet
Terminated prisms of rare Bustamite the Calcian rich form of Rhodenite in great contrast against a white Calcite matrix-this is a bit differnt to the normal association in Galena!
#652A Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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BROMARGYRITE & MALACHITE
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Circa 1889-Small Cabinet
A fine example of this rare silver bromide in a waxy corroidal mass with a little Malachite for accent
This originally came from the Aldridge Collection (1900's) before being aquired by Laurie
#1200 Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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WULFENITE ON GARNET SANDSTONE
Junction Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Circa Pre 1900-Cabinet
Orange Dipyramidal Wulfenite was only found in one area of this mine at Broken Hill at the 45 m level and few specimens were saved from this find & originally came from the Albert Chapman Collection before being aquired by Laurie
A second find in the 1924 is where most other examples in collections are from making this a unique & rare specimen!
#514 Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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MIMETITE (CAMPYLITE)
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Circa 1890?-Small Cabinet
Mimetite in the curved crystal form of Campylite-no date is recorded for this but it does have an old red lead number #264 indicating the above date.
An excellant & early rare example for Broken Hill Mimetite!
#545 Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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RETICULATED CERUSSITE
British Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
Circa 1889- Small Cabinet
Another excellant example of reticulated Cerussite from this fine collection comprising groups of "V" twins & stars, this was obtained by Laurie in 1949 from a former mine manager of the Block 14
#387 Professor Laurie Lawrence Collection (Aust)
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