Type Locality. Curved fibrous pale yellow crystals of carlosbarbosaite. Apparently the discovery was very limited, about 100 specimens, all micros. It has since been reported from another half a dozen localities. Ex Chris Stefano. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A spray of orange eosphorite covered by green zanazziite(?). The second photo shows a broken surface where you can see the original eosphorite. Is this then coated by zanazziite giving it a green colour, then overgrown by more eosphorite? Or is it all eosphorite, but just an odd colour? Width...
Orange prismatic eosphorite crystals. Green crystal aggregates possibly (probably?) zanazziite not roscherite as labelled. Small pyrite crystals also present. Unidentified colourless-white crystal clusters probably albite? Ex Jo Price Collection. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 9mm and stack of 56 images (first photo), 4.5mm and 28 images (second photo),...
Two crude joined crystals, no matrix. Ex Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Specimen is 6mm tall. Stack of 29 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green uvite with minor svanbergite. Width of specimen 95mm.
Greenish radial sprays of zanazziite with brown prisms of apatite? Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Triangular brown helvite crystals with associated pyrite, previously in the Brian Shelton collection. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Dragon Minerals. One of a number of small reticulated rutile specimens. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Mint-green etched “bullet” crystal, Hobart Show 2017
Highly etched morganite crystal with superb lustre creating many reflective facets dispersing the light in all directions. Slightly pinkish under artificial light but colourless, maybe even tinged with blue under daylight.
Single orange crystal, no matrix. Ex Dave Shannon.
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
Type Locality. Tiny pale blue patch.
Pale yellow fibres of studtite on matrix with bright yellow crusts made up of a mixture of phosphuranylite and saleeite. Studtite is a very unusual uranium species because it is the only known mineral that contains the peroxide radical (you only encounter this radical in the form of hydrogen peroxide...
Dark pink crystal (rubellite). Ex Wright’s Rockshop. Chris Wright has since passed.
Pink crystals. Ex Hawthorneden thumbnail
Single pale greenish rounded thumbnail crystal. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
Small dark green crystals
Multiple small nuggets on small (5mm) disk on balsa pedastal. Ex Delbert L. Oswald. Ex Carnegie Museum #12324. Note that Antioquia is in Colombia, nowhere near Brazil, and with no record of platinum.
Multiple small nuggets on small (5mm) disk on balsa pedastal. Ex Delbert L. Oswald. Ex Carnegie Museum #12324. Note that Antioquia is in Colombia, nowhere near Brazil, and with no record of platinum.
Colourless edingtonite with white natrolite from the Jacupiranga mine, Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil.
