Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Pale cream translucent double terminated tear drop Smithsonite xls on matrix of black Coronadite and white botryoidal crust of Kaolinite. Overall size: 31mm × 20mm × 13mm. Smithsonite xls to 16mm × 5mm. This has been in my collection since 1972. Probably originally collected in the 1940s. Featured in Smithsonite - Think Zinc ...
© Keith F Compton
Clear to smoky grey rounded dogtooth scalenohedral xls (largest 8mm). No matrix. Underside is shiny black – specimen is a “floater” that has simply "popped" off the Coronadite on which it formed. Overall size: 21mm x 12mm x 7mm
Size: 24mm x 23mm x 13mm Smoky grey teardrop xls of Smithsonite on minor columnar Coronadite
© Keith Compton
Junction Mine, Block 39, North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Botryoidal pale grey Smithsonite on minor Coronadite with a Garnetifferous sandstone like material. Overall size 39mm x 18mm x 17mm. Obtained 1970 - personal collection and photo.
Single botryoidal pale translucent grey to pale translucent brown Smithsonite “balls” to 5mm covering a massive brown Goethite gossan. Micro teardrop Smithsonite xls also scattered over the specimen. Within the matrix small unidentified micro xls are visible (possibly Garnet). Overall size: 45mm x 30mm x 24mm
Pale grey botryoidal Smithsonite on black Coronadite. Minor unknown brown material under the specimen. Minor Bromian Chlorargyrite on one end underneath Smithsonite on left side of picture. Overall size: 28mm x 22mm x 20mm
Size: 33mm x 30mm x 26mm Single pale grey (smoky) globular Smithsonite on minor black Coronadite. The Coronadite on the rear of the specimen is layered. Rear of specimen also has a few micro teardrop Smithsonite xls.
Smoky grey globule of Smithsonite with minor black Coronadite. Underneath and around the edges of the specimen is some chalk white to cream Kaolinite. Overall size: 33mm × 31mm × 31mm Acquired 1968 Personal collection and photo.
Single globule of smoky-grey Smithsonite on black Coronadite. Rear of the specimen has minor teardrop Smithsonite xl. Small areas of Coronadite on the rear are also globular. Lightly cleaned with water, a toothbrush and “Windex” to reveal the clarity of the specimen. Overall size: 37mm x 34mm x 29mm
Smoky-grey scalenohedral xl group on black Coronadite. Overall size: 17mm x 18mm x 15mm
Grey botryoidal mass of Smithsonite with several micro "dogtooth" rice grain type Smithsonite xls on the edges on black Coronadite. Possible Kaolinite in upper left of photo. Originally collected in the early 1950s. Overall size 41mm x 24mm x 25mm Personal collection and photo.
Double terminated teardrop Smithsonite xls to 17mm with micro scalenohedral Smithsonite xls on Coronadite. Some minor white Kaolinite intermixed in layers of the Coronadite. Size: 35mm x 24mm x 21mm
Size: 39mm x 28mm x 18mm Micro white dogtooth Smithsonite xls on Kaolinite on black Coronadite
Overall size: 17mm x 13mm x11mm Pale grey botryoidal Smithsonite, with some
Globular Smithsonite on minor black Coronadite. Specimen is 18mm x 13mm x 12mm
