Detailed information
Species
Pyromorphite
Dimensions
48 x 40 x 27
mm
Locality
Junction Mine, Broken Hill Yancowinna Co., New South Wales Australia
Condition
No recorded repairs
Excellent, sharp prismatic crystals of Pyromorphite from the Junction mine, at Broken Hill, Yancowinna County in New South Wales, Australia. Junction mine lay in Block 39 of North mine; adjacent to Menindee Road and at the northern end of the line-of-lode. The yellow-green Pyromorphite crystals measure to almost 7 mm and richly cover a dark to light brown gossan matrix. A fine miniature Pyromorphite from the Junction mine which last closed in 1972.