Sb
Native antimony is common in antimony deposits, but may be overlooked. It is more tin-white than the associated silver stibnite. However, many occurrences, particularly early reports, cited “antimony” when in actual fact, the mineral was stibnite.
The Tasmanian Museum holds the collection of William Frederick Petterd, the father of mineralogy in Tasmania. In the collection are antimony specimens from Broken Hill (X43 and X2809) and Lucknow (X44 and X2812). His acquisition of the Lucknow specimens is documented in a Sydney Mail newspaper article.
Selected Australian Occurrences:
- As single crystals 10mm across embedded in calcite at the Consols Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales.
- From Lucknow, New South Wales. Specimens from here are in the Petterd Collection, Tasmanian Museum. Also with stibnite at Hillgrove and other antimony deposits in New South Wales.
- At Costerfield, Victoria.
