Colourless stilbite crystals on black bitumen. Lamontite intermingled with bitumen. Apophyllite (in second photo) and unknown hexagonal or pseudohexagonal (in main photo) crystals in another cavity. Maybe just…
Grey mass of coloradoite with brassy pyrite. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection #133.
Single black crystal with greenish patches.
Single blue aquamarine crystal 17ct.
Bright orange mimetite surrounds glassy orange wulfenite crystals.
Type Locality. Tiny white fibres in a vial. Ex R. C. Erd, 1961.
Doubly terminated crystal in matrix. Ex Bob and Vera Turner Collection, El Paso, Texas. Ex Elena van Schriver. Labelled as Lake Jaco. According to Mindat, this is incorrect.
Cluster of colourless quartz crystals.
Small amount of gold in quartz. See arrow.
Single thin pencil of aquamarine. Labelled as Thuong Xuan (near to Xuan Le).
Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection #1219, labelled as Sylvester Mine. Mindat questions whether it is hinsdalite or plumbogummite.
Tiny anatase crystals (arrowed) on quartz with hematite inclusions.
Two greenish opaque quartz crystals joined together. Not smooth faces.
Brown ball on quartz matrix. Minor pyrite present. Ex Elena van Schriver.
Blue and green sapphires, some with good crystal form.
Two specimens of pale blue barite. Interestingly, almost all of the photos on Mindat are yellowish crystals. Fluorescent white.
Greenish-black fragment of a crystal 5mm wide. Acquired from CK Minerals at the 2019 Nunawading Show.
20g L5 chondrite meteorite. Found in 2000 but not from an observed fall. From the Meteoritical Society: Date: 16 Mar 2000 Latitude: 20°31.0’N Longitude: 56°40.0’E Mass (g): 408…
Ex Milton Lavers collection. Exhibited at the Munich Show in 2008. Measures 65x65x35mm.
Cream flattened calcite crystals on tapering quartz crystals. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $250.
Cluster of colorless-white quartz crystals. Collected by Tim Greenland in Spring, 1968.
Herkimer-like quartz crystals on matrix. Ex Milton Lavers Collection No. C38.
Cluster of smoky quartz crystals on a feldspar base. Labelled as Santa lucia de Tallano.
Fibrous to prismatic purple crystals. 65x40x20mm. Closeup photo is 6.5mm wide.
Lustrous deep red crystals on one face. Specimen measures 87x40x23mm. Closeup photo is 14mm across.
Gemmy rich emerald-green fluorite octahedrons, to 15mm on edge, cover the matrix plate 75x70x25mm. This colourful two-generation fluorite is from a small 2016 find near Yiwu City, a…
Lustrous purple “Grape Agate” with colourless-white calcite crystals, 60mm wide. From Joe George, aka The Scepter Guy, cascadescepters.com.
Stalactite of black crystals of sphalerite with a quartz crystal and minor pyrite on a few sphalerite crystal terminations, 58mm wide. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $150.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Pat Sutton at the Bendigo Show.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from John Haupt who collected it in 1971.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond at the 2001 Wagga Gemboree from a tailgater.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Graham Lee.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from the late Val Hannah.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from the late Jack Leach.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from the late Frank Robinson in 1995.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 from the late Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 from Nick Carruth. Photo width 11mm.
Ferrian variscite from the Ashley Watt Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree in 1994.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree in 1994.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from H. Allen Mitchell of Iowa.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee. Monochrome photo.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired in 2001 by Joan Lamond from George Lysiuk (collected in 1986).
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 2001.
Ex Museum Victoria, acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999.
10mm across and much more intense blue than you normally see.
White fibrous fluorescent
Carolinos Mine, Jack Nelson Collection
Ex Jack Nelson Collection