A single lustrous red scalenohedral rhodochrosite crystal. Height of view 14.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Terminated crystal in schistose biotite granulite. Specimen measures 90x75x50mm.
A kornerupine crystal in matrix, with a smaller one at the back. Specimen measures 47x28x25mm.
A crystal fragment 23mm wide.
Blue to almost black scorzalite crystals, Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue scorzalite scattered through matrix. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black berlinite with light blue inclusions (burangaite?), white augelite, blue scorzalite, and colourless/grey/white albite(?), fluorescent red under shortwave UV, brown garnet(?), a small amount of moss green wicksite(?) and colourless quartz. Width of view 6mm....
Pale greenish-blue trolleite with brown rutile and possible white augelite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue crystals, post-mining occurrence. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images.
Pale yellowish thin tabular pseudo-hexagonal crystals. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. Ex Jean P Beckerich. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Very pale platy to fibrous crystals on gossan. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale yellow plates of koechlinite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenish-yellow masses. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Colourless crystals. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White acicular sprays of kleemanite on green smithsonite. Also present but not in photo, cerussite and linarite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny green crystal aggregates. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Two pieces. Type Locality. Pale olive green with brighter yellow-green balls. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for kingsgateite. Yellowish green kingsgateite with blue gelosaite on smoky quartz. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. XRD Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below...
Type Locality for kingsgateite. Tiny green kingsgateite crystals with blue gelosaite on smoky quartz. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 160 images. Click on the image below for a...
Crystalline gold with galena and possibly other sulphides on quartz. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale greenish-yellow tufts of kidwellite with pale purple strengite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. White nodule 19mm wide. Ex John and Betty Weir.
Monchiquite – a rare basic rock that has analcime instead of feldspar. From No. 12 Level (1086 feet).
Very pale tufts of kidwellite with greenish-yellow cyrilovite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silky kidwellite on dark green dufrenite. Green spheres of chalcosiderite? Yellow-green hinsdalite. Colourless prismatic pyromorphite? Blue-green tsumebite not in photo. Ex Pat Sutton Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the...
Brown platy/scaly crystals of nontronite in vughs lined with green celadonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow prismatic titanite crystals with dark green, black, and green pyroxene crystals, possibly ferro-katophorite(?), aenigmatite(?), and/or aegirine(?), in an albite vugh. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for...
Sprays of dark red kermesite on black stibnite. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red kermesite with silver paradocrasite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fine hair-like millerite with a chalcopyrite crystal. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Drusy colourless quartz crystals after barite (epimorphs). Width of view 9mm. Stack of 175 images.
Tiny pale greenish-yellow crystal sprays. Ex Michael Hirst. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow bladed crystals. Ex Ian Everard. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale yellow sprays of flat bladed crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red realgar with orange orpiment, silver stibnite, pale yellow sulphur, tiny colourless quartz crystals, and some unknowns. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for...
Bluish-green brochantite with yellow kasolite, brown andradite, and yellow-green mottramite(?), Green Parrot Mine, Jervois Range, Northern Territory. Below: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Below: Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images....
Colourless-white radiating sprays of wavellite (or fluorwavellite) with pale pink (ferrian) variscite crystals. The paper describing fluorwavellite states that all specimens analysed were fluorwavellite, but that does not guarantee that wavellite doesn’t occur. Without analysis,...
Dark blue vivianite crystals in cavities in a nodule, with the matrix showing cracks due to dehydration. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for...
Well-formed orange crystals on colourless quartz crystals. The matrix fluoresces pink under shortwave ultraviolet light. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 95 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A single dark red spessartine. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Probably collected by Ted Johnson. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny yellow crystals. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Three pieces in a round container. Ex Ueno Scientific Co.
Type Locality. Ex Richard Bell 2007. Whitelight width of view 3mm, stack of 33 images. Longwave UV photo width of view 3mm, stack of 21 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution...
Greyish-green prismatic spray of crystals of elpidite (green fluorescence), pale yellow tabular thomasclarkite, silver hexagonal molybdenite, tiny brown siderite, green prismatic aegirine, and sodalite (orange fluorescence), in white albite (pink fluorescence). A yellow arrow points...
Red hexagonal prisms of vanadinite. One crystal shows two interesting features. One is that it is partly hollow. The other is that only three adjacent sides of the hexagon have prism faces. The other three...
Dark brown descloizite on a bed of orange vanadinite. Lustrous yellow hexagonal vanadinite (or possibly mimetite?) in a small vugh on the side. Ex Jo Price Collection. Descloizite photo: Width of view 6mm. Stack of...
Orange colour-zoned hexagonal vanadinite with brown to greenish-black descloizite, and tiny white needles of mimetite. The vanadinite is interesting, with some hollow crystals, and others that look like they have been etched away or resorbed....
Colourless calcite crystals that fluoresce pale pink under shortwave UV, with dark brown descloizite crystals. An interesting specimen. There appears to be multiple generations of calcite. The “Mercedes” faces are obviously a later addition, and...
Golden fibrous crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Golden matted fibres, with some pseudomorphing to goethite. Ex Vince Peisley. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown topaz crystals embedded in white kaolinite on the side of a quartz crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny gold crystals on/in grey kaolinite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cream to white kaolinite cementing broken quartz pieces and pearly mica flakes. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White tufts of kaolinite on blue chrysocolla. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White kaolinite on dark green segnitite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A complete replacement of smithsonite by creamy white kaolinite. Olive-green chlorargyrite crystals also present. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-grey kaolinite completely covering goethite stalactites. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width 32mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Kaolinite matrix hosting (and being replaced by?) grey tenorite. Ex Diederik Visser. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bright green acicular kambaldaite crystals on duller green gaspéite. In the vugh on the right, the kambaldaite looks like it is overgrown by gypsum crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on...
Type locality for widgiemoolthalite. Kambaldaite as bright green crystals(!) with pale bluish spheres of widgiemoolthalite on green gaspeite. From Westaus Mineral Museum (Blair Gartrell). Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the...
Lustrous black kaersutite in a basaltic matrix. Ex Ruth Coulsell. Specimen measures 33mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Many loose crystals and fragments. In photo largest is 18mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single loose crystal. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black phenocrysts embedded in matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Balls of deep pink erythrite crystals, many bent, with pale pink glassy mansfieldite and black heterogenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a...
Tarnished curved crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny sprays of ferrarisite on pink erythrite. Ex Jim Daly. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Click on the images below for a higher resolution version. Below: 1. Guérinite, Sainfeldite. Below: 2. Picropharmacolite. Below: 3. Rauenthalite, Picropharmacolite, Sainfeldite. Below: 4. Phaunouxite, Rauenthalite, Picropharmacolite, Haidingerite, Sainfeldite.
Ex Bernie Day Collection. Brewsterite fluoresces light blue under longwave UV. Calcite fluoresces red under mediumwave UV. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for heulandite-Sr. Typical heulandite crystals with quartz, calcite and chalcopyrite crystals. The calcite fluoresces white under longwave UV. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a...
Type Locality. A slice polished on one face showing relatiely pale purple charoite with green needles of aegirine. There are small patches of highly fluorescent green steacyite under shortwave and mediumwave UV. There are also...
Type Locality for witherite. Pale blue balls of aurichalcite on colourless witherite. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for...
White sprays on iron-stained matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Straw-coloured felted fibrous mass of yuksporite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White crystals of londonite on a liddicoatite crystal. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A hackly piece of gold in quartz. From the Yarrowee River. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
From the 700 Level. Type Locality. Metallic light grey patches of junoite in bismuthinite(?) matrix. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Silver lamellar mass without matrix. Ex Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark crystals on galena with a couple of spessartine garnets. Measures 21mm wide. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Probably Mn-rich hedenbergite. Green crystals with pink to brown bustamite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black jeppeite with brown resinous priderite in a matrix containing celadonite. Type Locality for both jeppeite and priderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below...
Yellow crystalline material from within a quartz vein. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown crystals in a cavity. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 10 and 70 images. Matrix in one small area shows a dull green fluorescence under shortwave UV. Ex Jo Price Collection. Click on the...
Brown crystals in cavities in quartz. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow crystalline aggregates of jarosite with minor colourless gypsum crystals on a goethite matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow, orange and brown jarosite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Jake Slago from Alfredo Petrov at the 2013 Tucson Show. Rocks and Minerals magazine Jul-Aug 2006: The third sentence in this nine page article reads: As with the real blossoms, these stones, known...
Tiny orange-brown jarosite crystals on botryoidal iridescent goethite. Ex John Carey. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny brown crystals of jarosite with bluish-green gahnite, and unknown pale yellow, in quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Type Locality. Reddish brown aggregates. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange crystals of jahnsite with black natrodufrenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous jacobsite modified octahedrons. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Jacobsite crystals on typical hematite matrix. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black modified octahedral crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Jacobsite grains with mixed sulphides. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. 45mm wide.
Black massive ixiolite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Isoclasite intermixed with fluorapatite. Ex Gunnar Farber. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Christmas Island phosphate minerals reference.
Black opaque and brown resinous mineral with possible samarskite, and a small amount of fluorescent autunite? A titanite crystal is embedded in the matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the...
A piece of the Henbury meteorite measuring 28x25x18mm.
Fibrous yellow sprays. Also present is a bright yellow fluorescent mineral, possibly autunite. Ex Frank Radke. Ex Sue Koepke collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a...
Osmiridium grains. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded grains of osmiridium with sharp black crystals of chromite collected by Rusty Morley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as osmiridium (now determined to be iridium, as silver grains with hexagonal plates (which are most likely osmium)). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Width of view 6mm. Stack of...
Lamellar vein in lizardite with metallic pentlandite and purple woodallite blebs. Ex Ben Grguric. Specimen measures 55x47x30mm.
Purple woodallite. A vein of iowaite altering to pale pyroaurite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images.
Yellow-green bromium chlorargyrite (“embolite”) on white “snail trail” iodargyrite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale-coloured crystals, some clearly showing hexagonal habit. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single 6mm long pinkish-brown transparent crystal without matrix. Interesting “inclusions”. Towards the bottom are things that look a bit like hexagonal wire fencing that we have used in the past around vegetable gardens an...
Pale yellow-green autunite crystals (that fluoresce strongly) with cores of blue-green torbernite. The autunite has probably grown epitaxially on the torbernite. Ex Rod Martin. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the...
Type Locality for lauite which is in another vugh. Cacoxenite on probably metatorbernite. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Opaque pale green metatorbernite with tiny yellow meta-autunite crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Opaque dull light green crystals, undoubtedly metatorbernite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green platy crystals, no matrix. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Highly fluoresent yellow inclusions of hokkaidoite in opal that fluoresces pink and and purplish blue. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki Collection. Type Locality. Specimen measures 17mm. Photo under longwave UV.
Sliced, polished sample, showing pale blue vein of itoigawaite in jadeite matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Type Locality. Width of specimen 40mm.
Pale crystalline mass in matrix. Ex Chet Lemanski Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images.
Small, crude, subhedral crystal aggregate of hydrobiotite without matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Older material, purchased by Andrew from Excalibur Mineral Company in 1986. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the...
Wairakite is one of the rarer zeolite species. It’s typically found around hot springs and forms white dodecahedral crystals similar to analcime. In this case, the white wairakite is completely replacing the elongated, stick-like crystals...
Green platy crystals of metatorbernite, yellow phurcalite (fluorescent), colourless crystals (some as sceptres), and a colourless platy crystal (left side of photo and in closeup). The latter is a similar habit to torbernite, but there...
Three colours of celestite. Blue-grey main crystals with white fibrous-like outer surface, and small colourless crystals attached. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless crystals of celestite. Predates Stoneco (1995) so just “White Rock Quarry”. Acquired from Ian Graham in 1993. Collected by an unknown person some time before that. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 65 images....
Probably a cleavage piece of kernite. The specimen measures 44x18x5mm.
A pale brownish transparent crystal of kurnakovite with a white surface alteration to tincalconite? Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1999 from Peter Elliott. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click...
Colourless hemimorphite crystals with scalenohedral smithsonite possibly coloured by the underlying matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Obtained by Joan in 2000 from Harry Critchley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the...
White silky “Cat’s Eye” terminations on vesuvianite crystals that are zoned yellowish-greenish, root-beer brown, and even a purplish-black. Specimen measures 28x15x14mm. Ex Brian Kosnar. Ex Rob Lavinski. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images....
Type Locality for both cuspidine and vesuvianite. Dark to olive green vesuvianite with tan cuspidine (not in photo). Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1997 as part of a Swiss collection. Width of...
Cyprine was originally defined as a blue variety of vesuvianite. However, cyprine is now a recognised distinct species. Without analysis, a firm distinction can’t be made. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images.
Dark brown crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Location in Japanese 長野県南佐久郡川上村甲武信鈜山 Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thick white tabular hexagonal crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silky erionite growing epitaxially on levyne. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless hexagonal tabular plates of levyne on rounded crystalline aggregates of thomsonite (eg: bottom of photo) and chabazite (eg: top of photo). Also present is what looks like a tiny analcime crystal on one of...
Greenish-yellow crystal and crust on quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Tiny metallic needles. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless hexagonal crystals, as well as yellow iron-stained ones. White fibrous thomsonite, and tiny analcime crystals. Ex Peter Hall. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki. Colourless width of view 6mm, and stack of 30 images. Yellow width of...
A spherical colourless fluorite that fluoresces purple-blue under longwave UV. Orange fluorescence is likely sodalite. Ex Münchener Micromounters. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images (UV) and 60 images (white light). Click on the...
Blue needles of schmiederite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue needles are schmiederite, the tabular blue crystals are chenite. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenish-grey zircons with black inclusions and tiny colourless crystals (sanidine?) sprinkled on terminations, and as most of the matrix. The sanidine fluoresces pink under shortwave UV. Associated with black “biotite” and orange fluorescing sodalite under...
Blue chalcomenite with yellow balls of allophane on metallic krut’aite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan as part of a Swiss collection in 1997. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on...
Type Locality for alfredopetrovite. White balls with a greenish-grey tint of alfredopetrovite, minor pink Co-bearing ahlfeldite, minor light blue chalcomenite(?), minor silver penroseite, white patches of felsőbányaite, and thin colourless blades and colourless blocky crystals...
Type Locality. Small crystalline specimen without matrix. Ex Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Width 2.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Grains of black cadmoselite with orange-brown sphalerite, and silvery metallic clausthalite? Width of view 6mm. Stack of 36 images. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic bright silver crystals from the Schöller dump. From Mindat “A coal mine which started in 1899 as the Schoeller mine. From 1946, it was named Zdeněk Nejedlý Mine, from 1951 Nejedlý I Mine. After...
Blocky colourless crystals with rounded aggregates of thomsonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Richard Bell. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
A lot going on with this specimen. Silver thin ilmenite plates formed first and were then coated with phillipsite-Na and chabazite-Na crystals. You can see the ilmenite where there are broken areas. Then later, a...
Glossy black pieces of ilmenite collected by Judy Rowe from beach sands on the shore of Lake Bullenmerri. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Partially clay encrusted ilmenite with augite and fluorescent calcite. There is a bunch of apatite needles on the top right corner of the ilmenite. Ex Margaret Brown. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images....
Four pieces. Photo shows ilmenite on augite. Also present andesine and hedenbergite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images.
A sharp ilmenite crystal in a cavity lined with sanidine crystals. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 14 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small green titanite with darker green actinolite and black ilmenite of orange stilbite-Ca. Specimen measures 39x30x14mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thick platy crystals of ilmenite with interesting surface features, and a couple of quartz crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded zircons, mostly orange, but also pale pink, with black ilmenite, and a few colourless quartz crystals, from sands at Byron Bay. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1968. Width of view 6mm....
Black mass of crystalline material embedded in matrix. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A red prismatic pseudobrookite embedded in chabazite. Ex Margaret Graham. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black magnetite octahedra, some with traces of chlorite on their faces. Some magnetite crystals are completely encased in chlorite. Blocky orthoclase crystals form part of the cavity lining. Brown sheaf or club-shaped siderite, yellow hexagonal...
Two pieces. Colourless twinned phillipsite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rhombohedral siderite (after calcite?), chabazite-Na (herschelite), and a needle of apatite with orange chlorite grown on it (in front of siderite). Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for...
Octahedral magnetite crystals with yellowish chabazite and dark brown siderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White zoned barite with dark brown siderite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 31 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin white bladed stacked crystals. Ex Trevor Hosking, collected in 1995. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Chabazite-Na and an apatite needle in a vugh in andesite. An opalescent effect is produced by the larger crystal lying flat in the vugh with only one face exposed. The surface has a slightly matt...
Dark brown spherical siderite with colourless orthoclase lining the vugh. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as apatite but I think the long prismatic crystal is gypsum. The termination is wrong for apatite. There is greenish-brown chlorite and a brown siderite with a hollow core, left hand side of the...
Pale yellow hexagonal chabazite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. The second photo was taken by Judy Rowe and uploaded to Mindat in 2009. It would have been a single shot, not...
Yellow and colourless hexagonal chabazite crystals with minor colourless orthoclase and brown siderite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Three colourless analcime crystals isolated the rest, with smaller rounded brown siderites, and one chabazite crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A colourless gypsum crystal with white hexagonal chabazite. Unsure what the hollowed out crystal is/was (bottom left of photo). The yellow needles are possibly iron-stained or replaced apatite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50...
Unidentified white mineral (possibly thomsonite?) in analcime. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Elongated green platy crystals. Ex Andrew Tuma. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fine acicular connellite with platy green botallackite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A jumble of intense red mostly terminated crocoite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A radiating cluster of purplish-red erythrite crystals. Collected in 1987. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless monoclinic crystals of claudetite with pale yellow sulphur crystals in slag. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Spheres of yellow to orange acicular karibibite crystals with small colourless to green scorodite crystals in gossan matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
A single well-formed arsenopyrite crystal on matrix. Specimen measures 55x30x25mm.
Radial aggregates of metallic grey arsenolamprite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A crystalline mass of native arsenic showing some individual trigonal crystals. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Platy green crystals. Type Locality. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Ex Mike Gough. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless rounded aggregate of hydroxylapatite with thin sword-shaped colourless scholzite crystals, and unidentified green mineral (plimerite?). Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Colourless hexagonal prisms and bowties of hydroxylapatite. Monoclinic tiny thin platy crystals of colourless montgomeryite (eg: top right of photo). The larger colourless crystals are possibly collinsite. White balls of crandallite. Ex Jo Price Collection....
Blocky colourless crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single white crystal of hydroxyapophyllite, with a few colourless needles of natrolite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless to white hydromagnesite crystals on serpentine. Specimen measures 90x55x45mm. Close up photo width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
A ball of crystals of hydromagnesite with white pearly dypingite. Specimen Measures 60x40x15mm. Closeup photo width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny colourless but mostly iron-stained crystals on a goethite matrix. Ex Vince Peisley. Identified for Vince by Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Blue fibrous nakauriite. This species forms as vivid fibrous blue crystals on/in brucite-bearing serpentine. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow crystals in a vugh in ferberite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow aggregates of hydrohonessite on green gaspéite, some of which is coated by gypsum. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Hexagonal olive green crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An aggregate of fibrous purple crystals. Specimen measures 42mm wide.
Tiny purple crystals on larger black crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled: Mt Hokidoke, Nagono Volcano, Japan. Colourless prismatic crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White alteration coating of hydroglauberite on glauberite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A brown scheelite crystal with white calcite on silvery black hübnerite. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bladed tan barytocalcite coated with sugary white crystals. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Specimen measures 44x25x18mm.
Colourless crystals of barytocalcite. Ex Richard Bell. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 5 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Aggregates of bladed crystals with a slight brownish tinge. Ex Tom Cottrell. 2/2005. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A very rich specimen of tan coloured marshite that fluoresces bright red, with pale blue aurichalcite and green smithsonite. Ex Peter Hall. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images (white...
White acicular rabbittite with green platy aggregates of schröckingerite that is highly fluorescent. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow johannite on green unknown (more crystalline and bright fluorescence), and blue chalcanthite. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny creamy-white radial sprays of bayleyite with calcite, gypsum, and unidentified copper and uranium species. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Ex Al Wilkins. Labelled simply bayleyite but I can’t find any distinct material. Some of the matrix is made up of garnet crystals, the garnet from here being almandine. So I can put that on...
From the 2390 ft level. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Zoned green crystals of conichalcite as “V”-shaped crystals in germanite. Type Locality for germanite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A small patch of gold on quartz matrix. Ex Don McColl. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow scalenohedral crystal groups of beudantite-segnitite, with dark red carminite needles. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A group of calcite crystals on a calcite ball in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Bluish-white fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 34 images...
Greenish yellow interpenetrant cube twin with interesting surface features. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A group of dark calcite crystals that show zoning under longwave ultraviolet light in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 56 images (whitelight),...
A steeply-terminated calcite crystal with a dark core in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. The main calcite crystal fluoresces orange under longwave ultraviolet light. A second partial brown calcite fluoresces bright white....
Synthetic diamonds. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images.
Dark brown hemispheres of hollandite. In front of the hollandite are corroded hollowed out hedyphane crystals. Ex Jack and Dawn Leach Collection. Ex Gordon Jackson Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click...
Cuprian tarbuttite with green beudantite and green coatings and crystals of hinsdalite.. Collected by Joan Lamond in 1999 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click...
Green corkite-hinsdalite on colourless pyromorphite with white scholzite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Collected by Joan on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip in 1991. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images....
Tiny pale hillite crystals on scholzite with purplish hemispheres of collinsite. Tiny green balls of plimerite are also present. Type Locality for hillite. Ex Joan Lamond specimen 3823. Joan acquired it from a Whyalla tailgater...
Olive-green micro crystals of hidalgoite on/after mimetite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Reticulated sixling cerussite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Reticulated partial sixling white cerussite with dark blue azurite. A small amount of bubbly smithsonite(?) also present on the azurite just below left of centre. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on...
Pale greenish-yellow cerussite crystals showing signs of reticulated twinning. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale yellow rhombohedral söhngeite crystals in gallite-germanite-tennantite matrix. Type locality for söhngeite and germanite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 44 images. Second image (separate specimen) includes a tiny green crystal towards the top, perhaps...
Pink acicular sprays of erythrite and minor pale purple mansfieldite on black heterogenite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black heterogenite coated by crystalline mansfieldite (coloured pink by cobalt). Pink erythrite (not in photo) and minor yellow smolyaninovite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Lustrous black horizontally striated crystals with steep terminations. Analysed by Peter Elliott. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive-green fornacite with orange-red wulfenite. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow scales of perite with a radiating group of colourless hemimorphite crystals. Olive green crystal of chlorargyrite not in photo. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the...
Black hemispheres of henschelite. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red-fluorescing calcite crystals with minor heulandite (pictured) and barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless and amber-coloured crystals of heulandite. The latter presumably through colour transmitted from the matrix? Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A cavity lined with heulandite crystals ranging in colour from yellow-orange through to orange-red. Some crystals have colourless zones. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A selection of some of a lot of 29 micrometeorites hand sorted by the late Judy Rowe from alluvial concentrates. Judy hand sorted anatase, zircon, maghemite, and other minerals. One of the micrometeorites (just above...
A single larger crystal and smaller drusy crystals of anglesite, altered from galena. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless harmotome crystals with brown calcite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm.
Flat-lying needles of metallic millerite. This specimen was collected prior to Park Slip West beginning operations. So technically, it should not be labelled as such. It should simply be Margam Opencast Mine. Ex Jo Price...
Partially polished crystal of green andradite (Demantoid) showing horsetail inclusions. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 34 images.
Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of 4.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Aggregate of white thin bladed crystals of thomsonite with thin plates of epidote. The garnet is labelled as grossular but is very dark, and could have a significant andradite component. First photo: Width of view...
The faint brownish to colour at the centre of the fluorite explodes like a supernova when hit with a UV torch! It also has inclusions, possibly pyrite or some other sulphide. But it is the...
Green iowaite with orange to brown chondrodite on colourless calcite. Minor black magnetite also present. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view calcite 3mm, stack of 35 images. Width of view iowaite 6mm,...
Labelled as hausmannite, but misidentified magnetite. Also labelled as muscovite, but the green crystal could be iowaite, clinochlore, phlogopite or muscovite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on...
This micro specimen came from the Jo Price Collection. Jo had acquired it from the late Jack Nelson. It is an old specimen simply labelled as mimetite, Tsumeb, SWA. The yellow-zoned “mimetite” crystals look odd...
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Labelled as thomsonite, but clearly identical habit to offretite pictured on Mindat. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless aggregate of epistilbite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Typical epistilbite habit on crystals in one cavity, with smaller crystals associated with prismatic scolecite (not in photo) in another. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a...
A small specimen of manganoan vesuvianite crystals with transparent diopsides. The perfectly terminated vesuvianites have varying colour from intense purple to very pleasing apple yellow-green and some gemmy areas. With exemplary lustre and good light...
Pink fluorescing scalenohedral calcite crystals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A bed of natrolite needles on phillipsite with a few small calcite crystals. There are a couple of even smaller highly lustrous chabazite crystals perched on natrolite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 135 images....
