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Table 7 in Compositions of silver halides from the Broken Hill district, New South Wales

  • 1. Department of Chemistry, University College Cardiff, PO Box 912, Cardiff CFl 3 TB, United Kingdom
  • 2. Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom
  • 3. correspondence-Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Western Sydney Nepean, PO Box 10, Kingswood NSW 2747, Australia

Description

Table 7. Specimen descriptions for silver halides collected remote from the Broken Hill mam lode.

D30482LABEL: Model Republic Mine, Purnamoota, NSW.
COMMENTS: Purple halide slug.
D30480LABEL: Embolite (slug), Model Republic Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Purnamoota.
COMMENTS: Grey-purple halide slug with minor coatings of hematite and yellow iron
oxyhydroxides.
D30484LABEL: Model Republic Mine, Purnamoota, NSW. COMMENTS: Purple halide slug.
D35460LABEL: Silverhalide weighing lbs, Caledonian Mine, Purnamoota, Broken Hill District,
NSW. COMMENTS: Sawn mass of purple-grey halide containing patches of days and ferruginous
gossan fragments.
D28186LABEL: Cerargyrite in azurite, War Dance mine, Pumamoota, Barrier Ranges, NSW.
COMMENTS: Block of azurite with vuglus containing azurite crystals some of which has
altered to later malachite. The azurite is veined and coated in parts by later greenish
grey halide.
D18714LABEL: Embolite, Lily mine, Thackaringa, NSW.
COMMENTS: Purple halide slug with minor copper straining and attached mIca flakes on
surface.
D18719LABEL: Iodembolite with native silver, Bobby Bums Mine, Appolym Velly, Barrier Range,
NSW.
COMMENTS: Sawn specimen of compact, ferruginous gossan containing large masses of
green halide, some of which has been altered to native silver.
D18724LABEL: Embolite with cerussite, Day Dream mine, Barrier Range, NSW.
COMMENTS: Specimen matrix is massive, ferric oxyhydroxide-coated cerussite with rough,
angular cavities containing green halide masses and infrequent malachite.
D18712LABEL: Cerargyrite, Black Bird mine, near Silverton, NSW.
COMMENTS: Vein in-fill of halide in decomposed sehist.
D18720LABEL: Embolite, Maybell North, Mt. Gipps, Barrier Range, NSW.
COMMENTS: Purple-brown, arborescent to massive halides in ferruginous clay matrix.
D18721LABEL: Cerargyrite, Maybell North Mine, M. Gipps, Barrier Range, NSW.
COMMENTS: Mass of grey-purple to green halide coated with minor clays and iron
oxyhydroxides on a decomposed schist base.

Notes

Published as part of Gillard, Robert D., Hart, Alan D., Humphreys, D. Alun, Symes, R. F. & Williams, P. A., 1997, Compositions of silver halides from the Broken Hill district, New South Wales, pp. 228 in Records of the Australian Museum 49 (3) on page 228, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.49.1997.1268, http://zenodo.org/record/4655141

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