Mineral Sale

A mineral sale will be held at the February meeting in order to raise money for Kids with Cancer, Westmead. The minerals listed below will be on sale. If you wish to donate minerals for the sale, please bring them along on the night. Include a price on the label. A feature of this year’s sale will be a collection of gemstones and minerals in sets contained in display boxes. These have been donated by Greg Willis. The gems include faceted, cabochon and tumbled. There are 16 boxes each containing about 20 specimens. These will be sold by silent auction. Minerals for sale: Symbols: J.J indicates specimen is from the J. Johnston Collection circa 1920 to 1939.

BOX 1. Atacamite on cuprite Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry $20 Tenorite, cuprite Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry $5, $15 Chrysocolla Trafalgar Mine, Cloncurry $5, $10 Pseudomalachite Trafalgar Mine, Cloncurry $10 Libethenite, pseudomalachite Hardway Mine, Mt. Isa district $5. Malachite Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry $5 Native copper, cuprite Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry $5,$10 Chalcotrichite Black Rock Open Cut, Mt. Isa Mine $20 Pseudomalachite Girilambone Copper, NSW $10 Malachite Girilambone Copper, NSW $10 Brochantite Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry $15 Azurite Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry $5, $10 Boulangerite Mt. Borunda, N Q’land J.J $40 Stream Tin S. M. Mine, Moina, Tas. $30 Old time specimen with label. 2

Galena Comet Mine, Dundas, Tas. $10 Old time specimen with label.

Ixiolite (Ta,Fe,Nb,Mn)O2 Aningie, N.T. J.J. (Tantalum source) $30 Garnet Broken Hill $5 Orthoclase feldspar Broken Hill, green plumbian $10 Staurolite Broken Hill J. J. $20 Coronadite Broken Hill $5 Smithsonite with coronadite coating Broken Hill $5 Sphalerite North Mine, Broken Hill $5

BOX 2 Fluorite, chalcopyrite Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry $5 Wolframite Hatches Creek, N.T. $5 Pyromorphite Black Star Open Cut, Mt. Isa $30 Chlorite,Calcite Prospect, NSW J.J. $5 Rutile in quartz Mt. Crawford, S.A. J.J. $5 Galena, siderite Yerranderie, NSW J.J. $10 Chalcanthite Loc. Unknown J.J. $5 Cosalite, Ferrimolybdite Wolfram Pipe Kingsgate. XRD $15 Azurite,Cerussite Broken Hill, NSW $20 Stibnite Hillgrove, NSW $ 10 Pyrite Mt. Elliott Mine, NW Q’land $10 Cerussite (coated) Broken Hill $5 Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite Loc. Not known $5 Stichtite in serpentine Dundas, Tas. $5 Tourmaline Grenfel, NSW $5

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BOX 3 Adamite Ojuela, Mapimi, Mexico $20 Phlogopite Mica Quebec, Canada J.J. $5 Emerald in schist Poona, India $5 The following minerals are from the John Borner Collection, c. 1955. Sodalite Lake Bogale, Maniema, Congo $10 Heterogenite Kabolele, Congo $10 Rutile Kaseti, Congo $10 Columbite Kalungenge, Congo $10 Xenotime Kaseti, Congo $10 Vanadinite,Descloizite Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia $5 Garnierite Lafitte Mine, New Caledonia $5 Zircons Copeton, NSW $10 Tantalite Wodgina, WA $10 Enstatite,Apatite Odrgarden Apatite Mine, Norway $20 Galena,Chalcopyrite Zeehan, Tas. J.J. $5 Stibnite Dorrigo, NSW. J.J. $5 Pyrite in gold ore Central Deborah Mine, Bendigo $15 Kyanite Hartz Range, NT J.J. $5 Rutile in schist Mt. Crawford, SA J.J. $10 Datolite, Axinite Colebrook Hill, Tas. J.J. $10 Clinochlore Chester County, Pennsylvania J.J. $5 Cassiterite in gangue Lattah, Tas., J.J. $5 Wolframite Herberton, Q’land J.J. $10 Erythrite Mt. Cobalt, NW Q’land $5 Scorodite xtals on arsenopyrite Kingsgate, L. Lawrence Collection $10

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BOX 4 Beryl Triple Chance Mine, Broken Hill $5 Lepidolite feldspar Coolgardie, WA $5 Apatite Loc. Unknown $5, $10 Bustamite Broken Hill $10 Scheelite, Cuprotungstite Cordillera Mine, Tuena. Fluorescent $20 Staurolite,Kyanite Thackaringa, NSW J.J. $30 Scheelite, Wolframite Frogmore, NSW. Fluorescent $5 Pseudomalachite West Bogan Mine, NSW $5 Bindheimite,Mimetite, Malachite Block 9, Mineral Hill, NSW $10 Scheelite, Quartz Hillgrove, NSW. Fluorescent $10 Heazlewoodite, Zaratite Heazlewood, Tas. $40 Zaratite Heazlewood, Tas. $5 Wolframite Torrington, NSW J.J. $10 Scheelite Hillgrove, NSW $5

BOX 5 Anglesite on cerussite Broken Hill $40 Rhodonite,galena Broken Hill $20 Bustamite,sphalerite Broken Hill, NSW $30 Chlorargyrite Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill $75 Prehnite Mullaley, NSW $10 Malachite Sandy Flat Mine, Redbank, N.T. $5 Cuprite, Chalcotrichite, Sandy Flat Mine, Redbank, N.T. $5 Pseudomalachite Girilambone Copper Mine, NSW $5 Stibnite Hillgrove, NSW $5 Witherite, baryocalcite Rosebery, Tasmania $25 Lepidolite Londonderry, W.A J.J $10 5

Blue Topaz, Lepidolite Londonderry, WA J.J $20 Wulfenite Los Lamentos, Mexico $10 Axinite-Fe Puiva Mine, Urals, Russia $5 Bobbierite Kovdor Mine, Kola Peninsula, Russia $10 Cerussite Tsumeb, Namibia $10

Box 6 Pectolite Prospect Quarry, J. Johnston Collection circa 1930 $10 - $50

Box 7 specimens donated by Paul Melville Andradite crystal, green Sandare, Mali $20 Serandite Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec $30 Fluorite Huayllapon Mine, Pasto Bueno, Peru $65 Large single crystal, ex Demetrius Pohl. Mimetite Mt. Bonnie Mine, N.T $10 Inesite Wessels Mine, Kalahari, RSA $90 Pink to red lustrous crystals. Malachite Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Ariz. $45 Native copper Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill $65 Parahopeite Reaphook Hill, S.A. ex. C. Johnston $30 Atacamite Mount Gunson, SA $30 Cuprite Tsumeb, Namibia $85 Deep red xtals ex Warren Somerville Pyromorphite Browns, Rum Jungle, NT $75 Pyromorphite Browns, Rum Jungle $100 Malachite plate covered in lustrous pyromorphite Scholzite Reaphook Hill, SA $35 Cerussite, Dundasite Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tas. $20 6

Box 8 Albite, Lepidolite Londonderry, WA $5 Beryl Londonderry, WA, J.J. $5, $10 Petalite Londonderry, WA J.J. $5, $20 Malachite, Chrysocolla Osborne Mine, NW Q’land $10, $15 Sampleite Northparkes Mine $10 Jamesonite, sphalerite,arsenopyrite Loc. Unknown $5 Stichtite on serpentine Dundas, Tas. $5 ------

Phlogopite Mica Harts Range, Central Australia $20, $40 Rare, J. Johnston collection circa. 1930

Books Broken Hill Mines, 1968. Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy $20 Mineralogical Record, Arizona Issues 1 to 5, 1980 – 1983, out of print. Set: $50 The Blue Mountains, The Macleay Museum $2 Discovering New South Wales Rainforests, Total Environment Centre $2

Maps Broken Hill Geological, 1:250,000 $5 each Bathurst Geological, 1:250,000 $5 each Sydney Geological, 1:250,000 $5 each Sydney Basin, Geological 1:500,000 $5 each