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Rhodonite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/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-highlights/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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Gold on Quartz
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/gold-on-quartz/Gold always has instant appeal, and this photogenic specimen certainly attracts attention.
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Copper
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/copper/This group of arborescent (branching), cylindrical copper crystals is a very fine example of specimens found throughout the oxidised zone of the Broken Hill orebody.
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Opal ‘Pineapple’
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/opal-pineapple/This opal ‘pineapple’ has nothing to do with the fruit – the term is only a visual description. The opal is made of silicon dioxide with water.
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Chrysocolla replacing Azurite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/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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Smithsonite on Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/smithsonite-on-cerussite/Smithsonite is usually white or cream, yellow or blue, but occasionally a trace of copper can give it a pleasing apple green colour, like this one.
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Azurite with Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/azurite-with-cerussite/This magnificent plate of dark blue azurite (copper hydroxy-carbonate) crystals from the oxidised zone of the Broken Hill orebody was acquired by Albert Chapman from a Broken Hill mine ‘trucker’ who ‘collected’ it in the 1950s.
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Heulandite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/Heulandite/This is an attractive group of lustrous, orange, diamond-shaped crystals arranged in radiating sheaves.
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Pyromorphite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/pyromorphite/Pyromorphite (lead chloro-phosphate) was a common mineral of the oxidised zone of the Broken Hill orebody, and exceptional specimens of various crystal forms and colours were found.
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Bilas: Body Adornment from Papua New Guinea
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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