Browne's shaft, Junction Mine, Block 39, North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Nicely formed pyrargyrite crystal with small siderite crystals attached. Photo width 5mm.
© Steve Sorrell
A large specimen of cream secondary sphalerite and secondary galena from the "watercourse" Browne's shaft Broken Hill New South Wales.The specimen shows colloform internal structure. Picture cannot show the metallic look of the galena nor does it show the reflections from the grains within the galena bands. I was told that " It was collected in ...
Deep red proustite with siderite. Field of view: 4.2mm.
© Judy Rowe
Pyrargyrite, Stephanite, Baryte and Siderite. You can see a well formed crystal of pyrargyrite in the upper left quarter, which is approx 1.8mm across L-R Only the pyrargyrite (red) and baryte (brown near edges) are easily identifiable without a microscope. This chip came from a larger specimen which broke up during transport. Specimen and ...
© Mark Willoughby 2016
One coarse wire and three crystalline masses of Silver after silver chlorides? All from the Browne's Shaft area, Broken Hill. Ex John Toma.
© mindat.org
Galena
Polished section of rhythmically banded supergene Galena (dark) and supergene Sphalerite (light) from the "watercourse" area of Browne's shaft. Circa 1970. Ex John Toma collection.
Galena. Ex John Toma collection.
Silver wires on calcite
© Pristine Minerals
Black blocky tarnished crystal aggregate of acanthite (visual ID) on the end of curl of bright native silver in a matrix cavity. Purchased in 2019.
© Andrew Hodgson
Acanthite has formed as a very crude black crystalline intergrowth, without matrix. A 1.6 cm long streak of dark red Pyrargyrite can be seen across the back of the specimen, embedded in the Acanthite. Personal collection of Sharon Cisneros.
© Eugene & Sharon Cisneros
Acanthite ( analysed at South Australian Museum) Pseudomorp after unknown, possibly Pyrargyrite. Found in associated with Pyrargyrite Stephanite, Polybasite. Proustite, Dyscrasite, Alargentum native Silver in a Siderite rich sheer zone. Brownes' shaft in the old Junction mine. Now incorporated into the North mine complex.
© John Toma
A rare specimen from Broken Hill, a free crystal (s) of Polybasite from a vugh in silver rich Galena with Siderite, native silver and Pyrargyrite. Hexagon is about 4mm in diam and far more silver looking in real life.
An example of the massive Siderite from a major vein found on the 12 th level Brownes' shaft of the old Junction mine Broken Hill NSW. This sample is full of Native silver and argentiferous Galena and Acanthite. An underground surveyor who worked in this area once told me that he had proved to himself that there was a sheer zone with a direct ...
Native Silver wires on massive Siderite from Browne’s Shaft, Junction Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Specimen measures 65x25x45mm; FOV 40mm in close-up image above. Specimen and Photograph - James Melville (2023)
A very rare specimen of pyrostilpnite from the Silver rich zone in the Junction mine, Brownes'r shaft. this area was located in the 70's whar a new air shaft was sunk underground.. It is the only specimen of this mineral that I know of from Broken Hill main lode and is well crystalized. It has been in my collection as a possible proustite for ...