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Alabandite with Calcite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/alabandite-with-calcite/Alabandite is a rare manganese sulphide mineral found in only a few locations in the world, but Broken Hill has produced some of the best and largest examples.
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Chalcopyrite on quartz
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/chalcopyrite-on-quartz/These large, golden tetrahedral chalcopyrite (copper iron sulphide) crystals on quartz matrix were purchased in the mid-1960s by Albert Chapman from John Cerlienco of South Australia.
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Azurite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/azurite/These large, golden tetrahedral chalcopyrite (copper iron sulphide) crystals on quartz matrix were purchased in the mid-1960s by Albert Chapman from John Cerlienco of South Australia.
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Minerals conversation starters
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/cs-minerals-copy/Which three minerals would you choose to make a piece of jewellery? Use our Minerals conversation starters for fun suggestions and prompts for how to engage with this exhibition.
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Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/cerussite/This statuesque group of cerussite crystals has been an icon of our mineral collection for over 90 years.
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Malachite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/malachite/These lustrous sheaths of emerald-green, radiating, silky malachite (copper hydroxy-carbonate) needles resemble plush velvet and make a very attractive specimen.
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Black Opal
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/black-opal/Australian black opal is the most prized and most valuable type of precious opal.
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Rhodonite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/rhodonite/This outstanding blood-red rhodonite (manganese silicate) crystal group with sharp, parallel bladed crystals is the finest rhodonite crystal group of its kind in the world.
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Stolzite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/stolzite/Stolzite is a rare lead tungstate mineral found in several locations around the world, but Broken Hill produced exceptionally large, nicely coloured and well-formed crystals.
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Chrysocolla replacing Azurite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/chrysocolla-replacing-azurite/These flower-like replacements (or pseudomorphs) of azurite (copper hydroxy-carbonate) by chrysocolla (copper silicate with water) were a unique feature of the Dorothy Mine, and are much prized by collectors.
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