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.
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.
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.
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 the image below for a higher resolution version.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a...
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 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.
Not sure of the chemistry here, but it appears to be pyrite altered to goethite, then partially altering to hematite. Or possibly the other way round. All with a bit of relict quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below...
Thin orange plates of wulfenite with yellow-green rounded pyromorphite, and tiny sharp olive-green fornacite crystals on bluish-white halloysite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic colourless crystals of gypsum. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Interpenetrant gypsum crystals. Collected during roadworks. Largest crystal is 27mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow crystals in a variety of habits. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Iridescent goethite stalactites. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green balls of glaukosphaerite on a tremolite matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green acicular-fibrous crystals. Ex Albert and Marianne Schrander-Hettinga 1/2006. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark green gillardite. Light green gaspeite. Colourless gypsum. Gillardite Type Locality. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 130 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenish crust. Type Locality. Ex Dakota Matrix Minerals. 42x30x18mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Cluster of crude black crystals. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Three small crystals without matrix. Ex Jim Ferraiolo. Crystal in photo is 7mm long.
Tiny yellow crystals. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Eucryptite and albite as massive white crystalline material. Pale pink may be cookeite. Specimen measures 75x55x30mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny pink aggregates of erythrite crystals. Collected by John Carey. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 125 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous wheatsheaf sprays of green epidote topped with a few colourless quartz crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. 15mm wide. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as Kalumburu Station, but would be the well-known Mitchell Plateau. A sheaf-shaped aggregate of epidote crystals with minor drusy quartz. 18mm tall. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A gemmy green elbaite crystal that has been broken and later healed, but offset. Ex Jo Price Collection. Crystal is 8.5mm tall. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Opaque pink “rubellite” crystals with pale green cores frozen in matrix. Specimen is 30mm wide. Ex Bernie Day Collection #M3882. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Opaque bluish-green crystals with pink cores. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection #1963. Width of specimen is 48mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic green crystals frozen in quartz matrix. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Aggregates of cream-coloured dolomite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of specimen 28mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless stepped rhombs. Note that these crystals are similar to photos of smithsonite from this locality on Mindat, except for the colour (the smithsonite specimens have a green tint). Width of view 5mm. Stack of 71 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless zoned rhombs. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 26 images Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
One of three loose crystals of green diopside, this is the smallest at 6mm tall. The largest is 16mm tall. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sawn specimen. Grey fine-grained material material with galena and intergrown with other sulphides. Ex Rob Sielecki. Type Locality. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silvery black cuprite crystals with a hint of red. Ex John Lewis Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Deep red cuprite crystals in a copper matrix from the Pit F0 Supergene Deposit. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small crystals and partial crystals of crocoite on quartz crystals, Width of view 11mm. Stack of 6 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green spheres are more likely conichalcite than cornwallite as labelled (conichalcite recorded in the Simpson Collection in Western Australia). Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White eucryptite with lilac cookeite. The eucryptite fluoreses white under longwave and red under shortwave. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $2.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Grey coloradoite sandwiched between two patches calaverite. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single partially terminated black columbite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless prismatic hydroxylapatite (centre of photo) with colourless to yellowish hemispheres of distinct collinsite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Coatings and crystalline areas of pucherite (lighter yellow) with clinobisvanite (darker yellow to orange). Ex Jack Leach Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green chrysocolla pseudomorphing malachite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue chrysocolla with white hemimorphite. The matrix and the hemimorphite are coated with drusy quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 29 images. Closeup width 3mm, stack of 50. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue chrysocolla with green malachite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Nice green chlorargyrite on brownish dolomite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single mounted chalcopyrite crystal, no matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Extreme closeup of a wulfenite crystal at the limit of what can be achieved with my equipment. This image has not been cropped. Width of view 2mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A 1mm wide yellow wulfenite crystal on a goethite matrix. A few other crystals occur on other parts of the specimen. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Chalcanthite crystals that had grown on mine timbers in the lower levels of the mine. Specimen was collected around 1968 and was still attached to the timber. Unfortunately it has since become detached. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Two interpenetrant blue crystals. There was a chalcanthite pool underground at the mine. The colour is a bit lighter blue in person but hard to capture accurately. Ex Jo Price Collection. Largest crystal is 10mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Five specimens. The one photographed has parallel growth cerussite with “pancake” pyromorphite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic colourless cerussite with tiny yellow mimetite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan from Merv and Lil Legg at the 1999 Gemkana for $2. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White bladed crystals on a gossanous matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless crystals showing twinning, no matrix, mounted on a black-painted wooden post. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for jeppeite and priderite. Black jeppeite with brown priderite in a lamproite matrix comprised of green celadonite and chlorite pseudomorphs of olivine, pyroxene and leucite. Width of view 24mm. Stack of 49 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An interesting paragenesis. I think what has happened is that malachite was replaced by blue chrysocolla, then wulfenite crystals formed on that, then a later coating of paler chrysocolla covered the lot! Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9.5mm. Stack of 125 images. Click on the image below for...
A tiny cassiterite crystal embedded in matrix. Width of view 4.75mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless gypsum on green carrboydite with yellow to brown jarosite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Doedens via Audrey Tuck. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Ex Jo Price Collection. Specimen measures 9x7x3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Malachite after azurite and orange-yellow wulfenite crystals and tiny olive green fornacite crystals on a goethite matrix. Width of specimen 43mm. Stack of 182 images. Depth of view about 25mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark orange-red carminite with lighter orange beudantite, light yellow-green philipsbornite in a pale green gartrellite matrix. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink scalenohedral crystals of cobalt-bearing calcite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Ralph E. Merrill Collection. Ex Peter Bridge. Tan powder in 44mm long glass vial.
Green cubic crystals of bromargyrite with bright native silver. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless to tan crusts on bat guano. Type Locality. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1988 from a tailgater at the Canberra Gemboree for $2.
Lustrous blue azurite crystals on a goethite matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bright blue crystals of ashburtonite from the Type Locality. Width of view 2.33mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Rob Sielecki in 1998 for $15.00. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
~1mm buff-coloured crystals. Type Locality. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992. Ex Museum Victoria. Collected in 1898.
Genie of the lamp. Colourless bladed dolomite crystals over pale blue mcguinnessite on native copper. Height of view 11mm. Stack of 160 images.
Light blue crust on matrix. Width 11mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp platy crystals. Width 7mm, stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp green crystals of molybdofornacite on tabular yellow wulfenite with cream zoned hexagonal pyromorphite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 37 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Pale blue aurichalcite with white hydrozincite and pink calcite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 162 images. Ex Jo Price Collection. Below: Nodular white hydrozincite with blue aurichalcite and pale pink calcite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
