A single lustrous red scalenohedral rhodochrosite crystal. Height of view 14.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Spongy bright yellow gold with stibnite in quartz. Collected before the open pit operation. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images.
A yellow jeanbandyite crystal in arsenopyrite with a bleb of iridescent chalcopyrite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Ex Chris Jewson, collected 10/1993. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive green prismatic crystals with typical triangular faces on the terminations. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images.
Greenish tinted crystals of marcasite with fluorescent sphalerite. Width of view 14mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green cubes of pharmacosiderite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A marcasite nodule that is unaltered (compare specimen 0189). Width of view 14mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A crystalline nodule of marcasite. Ex Barry Schubert. Width of view 14mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
What was once a very nice sharp nodule of crystalline marcasite is now mostly sulphate minerals, possibly colourless gypsum, white fibres of halotrichite, and pink rozenite amongst others. Width of view 14mm. Stack of 35 images. Exact location not known but possibly Addiscot Beach at the top of the Angahook...
Specimen has some beginning signs of “pyrite disease”. Apart from the pyrite and marcasite, there are a few small crystals of spessartine and fluorapatite. Ex James Melville Collection. Width of view 10mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Two groups of marcasite crystals with orange dolomite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan from Frank Robinson in 1990. Width of view 10mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
Pink acicular sprays of erythrite and minor pale purple mansfieldite on black heterogenite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Mansfielite photo width of view 3mm, stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Pink stalactitic mansfieldite with straw-coloured smolyaninovite after erythrite, black heterogenite, and pink acicular erythrite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Interesting paragenesis here, probably multiples. Straw-coloured smolyaninovite has replaced erythrite. Black heterogenite is coating zoned purple mansfieldite (centre). And the sphere to the right has a thin coating of smolyaninovite on pink zoned mansfieldite on smolyaninovite on heterogenite! Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image...
Cobalt-bearing mansfieldite with opaque pink cores and transparent darker pink to purple outer areas. Dull orange resinous smolianinovite and black iridescent heterogenite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1996 from Margaret Day for $4. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for...
Pink and purple mansfieldite with black heterogenite and orange smolyaninovite. Purple disc of mansfieldite, width of view 6mm, stack of 80 images. Mansfieldite perched on smolyaninovite, width of view 3mm, stack of 70 images. “Blazing Comet” width of view 3mm, stack of 45 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on...
Phosphorite is generally either carbonate-rich hydroxylapatite, or carbonate-rich fluorapatite. This specimen exhibits a green afterglow in parts, after being exposed to longwave ultraviolet light.
Colourless aggregates in quartz. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki Collection. Type Locality.
Tiny greyish material. Type Locality.
White veins with colourless crystals. Ex Allan and Elvire Mortimer. Ex Neil Hubbard. Ex Hori Mineralogy. Measures 32x26x18mm. Type Locality.
Very pale massive hydroxylellestadite with small dots of green diopside. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki Collection. Type Locality.
Pale blue crystalline crust of aubertite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow-green crust of one of the Obradovicite Group species with minor white gypsum. Ex Jim Daly. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Closeup of a single creedite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An acicular hemisphere of blue connellite needles. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1996 from Brian Beyer for $6.00 at the New South Wales Mineralogical Societies Seminar. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A couple of dark cuprite crystals with iridescent dendritic copper. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Purchased by Joan from Brian Beyer for $1 at the Australasian Mineral Societies Seminar in Melbourne in 1990. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless hexagonal prisms. Ex Jacques-Yves Desescaut, Marseilles. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images.
Loose pieces of crystalline gold. Enterprise Mine not in Mindat. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Luinaite is now considered a triclinc dimorph of schorl. Here as radiating groups of small grey to green acicular crystals with pale purple fluorite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Radiating black needles of ludwigite and pale yellow pyroaurite-2H (sjögrenite) frozen in matrix. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Patches of Löllingite in granite. Ex Don Billinghurst Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single crystal with minor tarnishing and no matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silver crystal of Löllingite. Ex Albert Chapman. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
Black botryoidal lithiophorite in sandstone. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1989. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue puffballs of plancheite with bluish-green chrysocolla. Shattuckite present elsewhere on the specimen. Ex Steve Pullman (purchased by him at Tucson in 1991). Width of view 6mm. Stack of 69 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Two small pieces of palladium metal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images.
Purple fluorite cubes with tiny pyrite, some elongated, on white quartz. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 89 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny blue linarite crystals with grey reticulated cerussite and white sprays of dundasite. Ex Shane Dohnt. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny blue crystals of linarite with a green crust of brochantite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny blue linarite crystals with green brochantite, white cerussite and possible ktenasite. Unidentified brown pseudomorph(?), perhaps originally a chlorite mineral? Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue bladed crystals of likasite on cuprite (top left). Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink rhodochrosite balls and isolated rhombohedral crystals on quartz. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 90 images.
A green spray of libethenite crystals with pale blue turquoise on albite, orthoclase and smoky quartz, with very pale pink fluorapatite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Two genereations of spiky balls of green libethenite in a quartz cavity. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green pseudo-octahedral crystals with bluish-green pseudomalachite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark green pseudo-octahedral crystals on dark brown goethite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark green, almost black, libethenite crystals. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green libethenite crystals that have grown in a restricted width fracture resulting in some with a bladed habit. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Acquired by Margaret 6/1985 from Brian Beyer for $3. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green pseudo-octahedral libethenite on crystalline turquoise, some of which has formed as epimorphs after an unknown mineral. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Light green sprays of prismatic libethenite with blue-green pseudomalachite on quartz crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive green prismatic crystals in gossan. Ex John Carey. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale green opaque sprays of libethenite with globular pseudomalachite, and quartz crystals. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark green pseudo-octahedral libethenite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 115 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Platy blue sampleite, light green libethenite sprays, and darker green pseudomalachite. Libethenite photo: Width of view 6mm, stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow coating on black columbite. Ex Gunnar Färber. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Specular iridescent hematite with botryoidal prehnite and minor white albite. Some massive calcite present, some of which fluoresces red under longwave UV. Width of view 3mm, stack of 50 images (hematite). Width of view 6mm, stack of 95 images (prehnite). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Brown grossular garnet crystals in vughs with trigonal hematite crystals. Acquired by Joan in 1994 from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Second photo 6mm and 130 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green epidote, white albite and colourless thomsonite? Light green balls may be chlorite or pumpellyite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Two generations of garnet, the first being darker orange-brown, the second being smaller very pale orange. Hematite in an adjacent vugh. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless calcite crystals with a ball of prehnite (not in photo) and a pinwheel prehnite (bottom right of photo). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale bluish-green fibrous anthophyllite on green chlorite. Calcite crystals in some vughs. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Chlorite alone image 3mm and 80. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
A white analcime crystal 20mm across, with orange to pink garnets on a green garnet matrix, colourless prismatic thomsonite(?) and black hematite.
White albite, green epidote, and colourless thomsonite, with tiny grey-green chlorite crystals. A vugh on the “bottom” of the specimen contains some nice calcite crystals that fluoresce red under shortwave UV. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Fluorescent photo width of view 3mm. Click on the images below...
Green acicular sprays of libethenite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green pseudo-octahedral crystals on quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Isolated green libethenite crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green libethenite with dark blue cornetite and botryoidal green pseudomalachite (not in photo). Width of view 3mm. Stack of 65 images. Ex Diederik Visser 6/2005. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White sprays of wavellite on dark green, almost black, blocky libethenite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharp green pseudo-octahedral crystals on quartz. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 120 images. Labelled as “Estremoz, Évora, Portugal”. Other such specimens on Mindat are tagged with “Uncertain locality”. The locality Miguel Vacas Mine, Nossa Senhora da Conceição e São Bartolomeu, Vila Viçosa, Évora, Portugal, is considered more likely. Click...
Doubly-terminated green libethenite crystals. Ex Chris Jewson. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-green pseudomalachite and brochantite with green libethenite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled simply as Shaba, Zaire, based on photos in Mindat, L’Etoile du Congo Mine looks the most likely source. But you can never be sure! Platy crystals of libethenite with pale blue chrysocolla, lighter on the surface. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click...
Mid green tufts of prismatic crystals. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic libethenite crystals with the smaller ones being a transparent light “epidote” green, and the larger ones being a very dark blackish-green. Greenish blue brochantite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 130 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin plates of levyne with silky overgrowth of erionite. Ex Judy Rowe. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange rhombohedral chabazite on hexagonal crystals of levyne. Black “pyrolusite” balls are sprinkled around. Erionite is evident as a very thin coating of levyne, obvious when you look at the broken crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silky fibrous erionite growing epitaxially on thin levyne crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unusually blocky levyne crystals with lustrous chabazite perched on them. Ex Roger Colling. Ex Judy Rowe. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin hexagonal plates of levyne. Nearby cavities have phillipsite or chabazite. Ex Mat Latham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin blades of levyne with a silky overgrowth of erionite. Thomsonite in nearby cavity. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White hexagonal levyne crystals with overgrowth of erionite. Broken surfaces show the silky nature. White balls of thomsonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Aggregates of pink and green bladed crystals of leucophosphite. The colours are probably being transmitted from the underlying material. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
(Photo) Leucite as grey-white material in groundmass (“leucitite”). Elsewhere on specimen: Green prismatic diopside. Brown-black prismatic clinopyroxene. Nepheline as hexagonal prisms. Nepheline with hollow cores have been altered to analcime. Colourless needles of fluorapatite. Grey ilmenite as flat crystals. Magnetite as tetrahedrons. Colourless tiny tabular sanidine crystals. Brown pseudohexagonal biotite....
Bladed crystals with a reddish tinge. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Reddish brown lepidocrocite on grey anglesite crystals. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky reddish lepidocrocite crystals on a goethite matrix. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous black bladed crystals with blue rosasite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
