Compositions of silver halides from the Broken Hill district, New South Wales Author Gillard, Robert D. Department of Chemistry, University College Cardiff, PO Box 912, Cardiff CFl 3 TB, United Kingdom Author Hart, Alan D. Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom Author Humphreys, D. Alun Department of Chemistry, University College Cardiff, PO Box 912, Cardiff CFl 3 TB, United Kingdom Author Symes, R. F. Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom Author Williams, P. A. correspondence-Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Western Sydney Nepean, PO Box 10, Kingswood NSW 2747, Australia text Records of the Australian Museum 1997 1997-12-22 49 3 217 228 https://journals.australian.museum/gillard-et-al-1997-rec-aust-mus-493-217228/ journal article 10.3853/j.0067-1975.49.1997.1268 0067-1975 4655141

Table 7. Specimen descriptions for silver halides collected remote from the Broken Hill mam lode.

D30482	LABEL: Model Republic Mine, Purnamoota, NSW.
COMMENTS: Purple halide slug.
D30480	LABEL: Embolite (slug), Model Republic Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Purnamoota.
COMMENTS: Grey-purple halide slug with minor coatings of hematite and yellow iron
oxyhydroxides.
D30484	LABEL: Model Republic Mine, Purnamoota, NSW. COMMENTS: Purple halide slug.
D35460	LABEL: Silverhalide weighing lbs, Caledonian Mine, Purnamoota, Broken Hill District,
NSW. COMMENTS: Sawn mass of purple-grey halide containing patches of days and ferruginous
gossan fragments.
D28186	LABEL: Cerargyrite in azurite, War Dance mine, Pumamoota, Barrier Ranges, NSW.
COMMENTS: Block of azurite with vuglus containing azurite crystals some of which has
altered to later malachite. The azurite is veined and coated in parts by later greenish
grey halide.
D18714	LABEL: Embolite, Lily mine, Thackaringa, NSW.
	COMMENTS: Purple halide slug with minor copper straining and attached mIca flakes on
surface.
D18719	LABEL: Iodembolite with native silver, Bobby Bums Mine, Appolym Velly, Barrier Range,
NSW.
COMMENTS: Sawn specimen of compact, ferruginous gossan containing large masses of
green halide, some of which has been altered to native silver.
D18724	LABEL: Embolite with cerussite, Day Dream mine, Barrier Range, NSW.
COMMENTS: Specimen matrix is massive, ferric oxyhydroxide-coated cerussite with rough,
angular cavities containing green halide masses and infrequent malachite.
D18712	LABEL: Cerargyrite, Black Bird mine, near Silverton, NSW.
COMMENTS: Vein in-fill of halide in decomposed sehist.
D18720	LABEL: Embolite, Maybell North, Mt. Gipps, Barrier Range, NSW.
COMMENTS: Purple-brown, arborescent to massive halides in ferruginous clay matrix.
D18721	LABEL: Cerargyrite, Maybell North Mine, M. Gipps, Barrier Range, NSW.
COMMENTS: Mass of grey-purple to green halide coated with minor clays and iron
oxyhydroxides on a decomposed schist base.