Detailed information
Dimensions
44 x 38 x 25
mm
Locality
Broken Hill Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co. New South Wales, Australia
Condition
No recorded repairs
This nicely crystallised small miniature Smithsonite from the Broken Hill mining district in New South Wales, Australia, displays two generations of crystal growth, a habit infrequently seen in specimens from this most famous of localities. Composed entirely of what is commonly termed ant egg or rice grain Smithsonite crystals of pale translucent grey, form a highly porous network of intergrown crystals. These have been subjected to a second phase of crystallisation where tiny, spiky Smithsonites have overgrown the first generation giving a hedgehog appearance to each. This specimen comes with a Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (13 Seagrave Road, London) label.