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...
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.
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.
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.
Blue veins of lazulite/scorzalite with small zircons. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Originally labelled as gmelinite, but looks much more like re-entrant chabazite twins. Chabazite is the only zeolite mentioned from the location too. Interesting surface features and reflections. There are tiny pyrite crystal included. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for...
White tufts of kaolinite on blue chrysocolla. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Balls of deep pink erythrite crystals, many bent, with pale pink glassy mansfieldite and black heterogenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny orange-brown jarosite crystals on botryoidal iridescent goethite. Ex John Carey. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fibrous yellow sprays. Also present is a bright yellow fluorescent mineral, possibly autunite. Ex Frank Radke. Ex Sue Koepke collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black heterogenite coated by crystalline mansfieldite (coloured pink by cobalt). Pink erythrite (not in photo) and minor yellow smolyaninovite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black hemispheres of henschelite. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless and amber-coloured crystals of heulandite. The latter presumably through colour transmitted from the matrix? Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fibrous white halotrichite with orange-red botryogen. The small yellow areas are possibly melanterite, or another sulphate. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless, pale blue and pale green fluorapatite. Dark brownish-red andradite. Dark green diopside. Brownish black allanite-(Ce), variety bagrationite. Ex Costas Constantinides. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Gypsum crystals on secondary copper mineral (chrysocolla?). Ex Lesley and Doug Ball Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A brownish-grey gypsum rose with a white UV reaction. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Margaret purchased this specimen in 1983 in Broken Hill. Labelled simply Maryborough, Queensland. There is some doubt that it may not be from this region. James Melville advised that it is almost certainly from Newport Waterways (canal...
Small quartz crystals on olive-green to brown grossular garnets. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An aesthetic parallel growth of copper crystals. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of specimen 7mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution verion.
Multiple generations of calcite with siderite, and some of the calcite fluoresces strongly red. One habit is white “Christmas trees”. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Leaf gold with an embedded quartz crystal. Ex Brian Shelton. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin leaf gold in quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny bit of gold in matrix (centre of image). Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dendritic crystalline gold. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bladed goethite on white calcite crystals that are not fluorescent, however the underlying massive calcite is. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Golden goethite with calcite on quartz. Calcite fluoresces bright red. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Goethite inclusions in quartz. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange acicular goethite sprays coming from a base of hematite on palest amethyst quartz. The quartz sits on an agate base. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Golden brown acicular crystals of goethite on amethyst. Width of specimen 13mm. Stack of 150mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale green fluorite with a darker core, preferentially coated with drusy quartz crystals. The pale green fluorite fluoresces more strongly than the darker core. Specimen measures 46x30x14mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of rounded fluorite crystals with blue to yellow zoning. Fluorescent under longwave ultraviolet, but not strongly so. A hint of green fluorescence in patches under shortwave ultraviolet. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Specimen is 30mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lots of chalcopyrite crystals on small purple cubes of fluorite and red-fluorescing double-terminated calcite crystals. A few small yellow barite crystals also present. Even smaller pyrite crystals are sprinkled on the barite, and to a lesser extent, on fluorite and calcite crystals. Width of view 17.25mm. Click on the image...
Dark purple fluorite octahedral crystals to 25mm with iron-stained quartz. The fluorite exhibits blue fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. Specimen measures 52mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark purple fluorite octahedral crystals to 20mm with iron-stained quartz. The fluorite exhibits patchy blue fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. Specimen measures 50mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Light purple cubes of fluorite do not fluoresce under longwave UV, but do fluoresce green under shortwave UV. Calcite is best seen under longwave UV as red patches. Balls of opal fluoresce pale green under longwave. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Click on the images below for...
A small crystal lined agate geode with purple fluorite octahedra with a pale blue-grey surface on amethystine quartz. The fluorite does not fluoresce. Also present, golden sprays of goethite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan for $3 from Bob and June Gleeson in 1998 at the Gawler Gemboree, South...
Scheelite on ferberite, 32x30x20mm. Shown under shortwave (left), white light (centre) and longwave (right).
Deep dark red prismatic crystals of erythrite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 160 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A few pieces. Erythrite occurring as a pink alteration of cobaltite crystals, which are embedded in fluorescent calcite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A mass of deep pink erythrite crystals. Also present (in matrix and not shown) is tan smolyaninovite pseudomorphing a cobaltite crystal. Gift from Bernie Day, December 1992. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Long prismatic pink crystals, one with a distinct bend in it. Width of view 5mm. Photo published in Australian Journal of Mineralogy 21(1). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink erythrite pseudomorphing cobaltite. Ex Ron and Betty Wallace Collection. Ex Graham Lee. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharp pink erythrite crystals and masses. Cobaltite as cubes mostly replaced by tan hörnesite. Black/purplish heterogenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. First image: Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Below: Aggregates of colourless hörnesite crystal sprays on erythrite. Width...
Tiny colourless hexagonal prisms of erionite (sizes in photo captions). Click on the images for a higher resolution version.
Twinned(?) green epidote crystals in massive white calcite that fluoresces bright orange-red. Collected in September 1994 by Margaret Brown. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 97 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Vanadium-rich duftite. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 106 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark bluish-green zoned hemispheres. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green prismatic malachite crystals on iron-stained/coated dolomite rhombs. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Striated twinned djurleite crystals with calcite. The calcite fluoresces a deep pinkish-red. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Laurie Lawrence Collection. Specimen is about 35mm across. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Light blue acicular cyanotrichite with minor darker blue azurite and green malachite. Specimen is 11mm wide. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny red criss-crossing elongated cuprite crystals (chalcotrichite) on prehnite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless prismatic creedite crystals with white and colourless hyalite opal. There is a slight hint of pink in the creedite above the main crystal group. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A rare copper pseudomorph after cuprite. Ex John Roe. Width of specimen 10mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue spray with green malachite and brochantite, and unidentified pale green material in massive cuprite with quartz. Ex Brian Beyer. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Typical crystals of blue cornetite. Ex Bernie Day. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny blue crystals of cornetite. Collected by Ron and Betty Wallace. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Although this looks very similar to the cornetite occurrence at the Great Australia Mine, I have to go with the fact that it was collected by Ron and Betty and given...
Green conichalcite hemispheres with pale fluffy agardite-(La). Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green balls with protruding crystals. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Crude white pseudocubes with a slight pinkish tinge (some altering to erythrite). Width 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images (close up). Width 18.5mm. Stack of 109 images (wider view). Ex Diederik Visser. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Olive-green rounded aggregates. Collected from the first Cu workings. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue rosettes. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Type Locality. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark blue bladed crystals and lighter blue sprays of clinoclase with white fibres of olivenite and balls of green conichalcite and chrysocolla. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Crimson red cinnabar on quartz. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 19 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Collected on the upper dump by Bernie Day. Olive-green unknown (Fe phosphate?) and grey variscite (upper right) on green chalcosiderite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tarnished chalcopyrite crystals. Specimen measures 74x42x40mm. Ex Rory McCann. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded chalcopyrite crystals. Specimen measures 53x34x33mm. Ex Rory McCann. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tarnished crystals on pink-fluorescing calcite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Chalcocite forming both a tapering prismatic crystal with a pseudohexagonal crystal at its base, with tufts of malachite on a vugh lining of crystalline prehnite. Ex Margaret Brown. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A specimen of pseudocubic chabazite and twinned phillipsite in a vugh in basalt labelled as ‘Cairns, Queensland’ that was collected probably in the 1970s or early 1980s. All I can find out is that the town is built on ‘recent superficial deposits derived from the Barron River’ and that ‘the...
Isolated pseudocubic chabazite crystals, some interpenetrant. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White to pale green chalcoalumite with fine needles of blue cyanotrichite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue rosettes of platy crystals. Ex Brian Beyer. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Grey cerussite crystals on azurite. Ex Graham Lee. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White globular hyalite opal partially coating one of the greenish barrel-shaped pyromorphite crystals. The opal fluoresces white under longwave UV. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 51 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single colourless crystal measuring 20x20x23mm.
Dark brown cleavage. Width of view 25mm. Use the slider to see specimen front and back lit. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny deep blue acicular buttgenbachite crystal sprays (centre of image) with green-blue gerhardtite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Analysis is required to distinguish between connellite (sulphate) and buttgenbachite (nitrate), which form a series. This specimen has not been analysed, but has a very...
Bluish-green radiating groups of bladed brochantite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 73 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Nice bluish prismatic crystals of brochantite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish thin crystals of brochantite under a malachite ball, Inkerman Mine, Mount Isa Area, Queensland. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin bladed prismatic deep pink erythrite crystals with globular pale pink to lilac Co-bearing mansfieldite on black heterogenite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Originally purchased from Marino Cristofli, a former miner from Dimbulah on 13th June 1996. Ex Martin Jensen Collection number MJ3254. 34x22x20mm. Pink-red fluorescence.
Golden barite crystals with goethite balls on the surface and native copper inclusions. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of pale yellow barite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 at the Hobart Joint Mineralogical Societies Seminar from Brian Beyer for $5.
Rough hackly bits of gold in matrix. Acquired from Ian Graham in 1993. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
One large crystal with a cluster of smaller ones from a locality best known for its opal. Width of view 22mm.
Dendritic copper in yellow barite. Width of specimen 20mm. Ex George Stacey.
Pale blue trolleite inclusions in a colourless grain of augelite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Quite a bit going on here. In the centre is light blue aurichalcite on a darker blue hemisphere of rosasite (there is a second hemisphere behind and to the left as well). In front to the right is a more greenish aurichalcite. And then there are wispy almost colourless strands...
Prismatic green crystals in a small vugh. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
At least three separate episodes of andradite garnet deposition on this specimen. First of all, orange garnet, then green, and finally, much smaller olive-green to black crystals. An interesting paragenesis. Width of view 3.5mm and stack of 60 images for both photos. Click on the images below for a higher...
A skeletal group of bluish green antlerite. Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection, acquired by Joan from John Toma. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
