Detailed information
Species
Pyrostilpnite
Dimensions
22 x 21 x 20
mm
Locality
Browne's Shaft, Junction Mine, Broken Hill Yancowinna Co., New South Wales Australia
Condition
No recorded repairs
This large thumbnail specimen from Browne's Shaft, Junction mine, Broken Hill, Australia is a feast of rare silver sulphosalt species including Pyrostilpnite, Polybasite, Proustite/Pyrargyrite and Acanthite. It comes from the famous find in the 1970s when a new air shaft was sunk underground and presents an extremely rich vein of silver sulphosalts with microcrystals extending into cavities. An exceptionally rare locality piece. Ex Milton Lavers Collection.