0190 Arsenopyrite, Golden Gully, Bendigo, Victoria
Oxidised twinned crystals from slate. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 60 images.
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5848 Quartz (Battery Sand), Misery Creek area, near Berringa, Victoria
Quartz grains from a gold mine battery. Quite fine crushed quartz. The old-timers would have extracted almost all of the gold. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 60 images.
5847 Miharaite, Mihara mine, Higashi-Mihara, Ibara City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Crystalline particles of metallic miharaite. Ex Chet Lemanski Collection. Type Locality. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 60 images. Below: Miharaite, Mihara mine, Higashi-Mihara, Ibara City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Width of view 7mm.
ncat AA7 Antimony, Lac Nicolet Antimony mine, Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens, Arthabaska RCM, Centre-du-Québec, Québec, Canada
Tin-white aggregate of native antimony. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0083 Gold, Stibnite, Red Hill, Heathcote, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Spongy bright yellow gold with stibnite in quartz. Collected before the open pit operation. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images.
ncat BDUK M3727 Jeanbandyite, Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Calstock, Callington District, Cornwall, England, UK
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.
1545 Olivenite, South Caradon Mine, Caradon Hill, St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK
Olive green prismatic crystals with typical triangular faces on the terminations. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images.
ncat JP3320 Marcasite, Sphalerite, Goongewa mine (Twelve Mile Bore; Prices Creek), Fitzroy Crossing, Derby-West Kimberley Shire, Western Australia
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.
1251 Pharmacosiderite, Copper Stope, Majuba Hill, Pershing Co, Nevada, USA
Green cubes of pharmacosiderite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1960 Marcasite, Torquay, Surf Coast Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat MAR03 Marcasite, Leigh Creek coal mine, Copley, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia
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.
0189 Marcasite, Gypsum, Halotrichite, Rozenite, Torquay, Surf Coast Shire, Victoria
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...