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BUSTAMITE CRYSTAL
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BUSTAMITE CRYSTAL
This is an unusually nice Bustamite Crystal featuring gemmy form with a bit of Galena. Bustamite is quite a bit rarer than the Rhodonite more often found with the Galena from this location. The colour and shape of the crystal in this specimen are above average. This is a great overall example of Broken Hill minerals to add to your Australian mineral collection. The specimen is mounted on a perspex pad for enhanced display.
Dimensions:
2.6cm x 1.9cm x 2.8cm, 13g.
Location:
Broken Hill, NSW, Australia.
Bustamite: CaMn2+Si2O6.
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BUSTAMITE CRYSTAL
This is an unusually nice Bustamite Crystal featuring gemmy form with a bit of Galena. Bustamite is quite a bit rarer than the Rhodonite more often found with the Galena from this location. The colour and shape of the crystal in this specimen are above average. This is a great overall example of Broken Hill minerals to add to your Australian mineral collection. The specimen is mounted on a perspex pad for enhanced display.
Dimensions:
2.6cm x 1.9cm x 2.8cm, 13g.
Location:
Broken Hill, NSW, Australia.
Bustamite: CaMn2+Si2O6.
A calcium manganese inosilicate (chain silicate) and a member of the Wollastonite group of minerals. Magnesium, Zinc and iron are common impurities substituting for Manganese. It is much lighter in colour than Rhodonite, but can be confused with it especially as both minerals can be found together and in similar Galena matrices.
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A superb specimen of Gemmy Rhodonite Crystals in Galena. A cluster of chunky, red translucent crystals on matrix. This specimen in particular shows amazing crystal colour and shape and will make a worthy addition to any collection. Two main crystals one atop the other nested in Truncated Galena from Broken Hill.
Location:
Broken Hill, NSWDimensions:
3.7cm x 2.5cm x 2.2cm, 34g.Rhodonite: MnSiO3
Named in 1819 by Christoph Friedrich Jasche from the Greek rhodos or “rose”, referring to its colour.
Galena: PbS
Galena is the primary ore mineral of lead. Worked for its lead content as early as 3000 BC, it is found in ore veins with sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, tennantite-tetrahedrite, etc. and in skarns, as well as in sedimentary rocks where it may replace carbonate beds or be deposited in pore spaces.
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Location:
Irelands Garnet Mine, Thackaringa, near Broken Hill, NSW.Dimensions:
8.1cm x 6.7cm x 5cm, 602g.Almandine: Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3.
Family: Garnet.SKU: C0406
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