0229 Libethenite, Umbarwaroa Gorge, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory
Olive green prismatic crystals in gossan. Ex John Carey. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Northern Territory
ncat TH Kornerupine, Whites Dam Area, Harts Range, Northern Territory
Terminated crystal in schistose biotite granulite. Specimen measures 90x75x50mm.
ncat YB Kornerupine, Mount Riddock Station, Harts Range, Northern Territory
A kornerupine crystal in matrix, with a smaller one at the back. Specimen measures 47x28x25mm.
ncat TA4 Kornerupine, Harts Range, Northern Territory
A crystal fragment 23mm wide.
ncat VHD4 M3787 Kasolite, Brochantite, Andradite, Mottramite, Green Parrot Mine, Jervois Range, Jervois Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory
Bluish-green brochantite with yellow kasolite, brown andradite, and yellow-green mottramite(?), Green Parrot Mine, Jervois Range, Northern Territory. Below: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Below: Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RAM4 CW26 Kasolite, El Sherana mine, South Alligator River, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory
Tiny yellow crystals. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW202 Junoite, 700 Level, Juno Mine, Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory
From the 700 Level. Type Locality. Metallic light grey patches of junoite in bismuthinite(?) matrix. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3385 Kamacite (in meteorite), Taenite, Troilite, Lawrencite, Henbury, Northern Territory
A piece of the Henbury meteorite measuring 28x25x18mm.
ncat PA24 Gold, Winnecke Goldfield, Georgina Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory
A small patch of gold on quartz matrix. Ex Don McColl. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR2 Grossular, Jervois Mine, Jervois Range, Jervois Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory
Elongated orange-brown grossular garnet. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JLMAR02 JL Gold, Winnecke Goldfield, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Small patches of gold in reef quartz. A golden bird up top? And a Remote Bogger in the middle? Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Don McColl. Specimen measures 4x2x2.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JLMAR02 JL643 Gold, Halleurs Mine, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
Small gold pieces on ironstone matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7417 JL1778 Sellaite, Fluorite, Muscovite, Brocks Creek, Adelaide River, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 11.5mm. Photos are white light, longwave ultraviolet and shortwave ultraviolet. Sellaite is cream to white and glows greenish under longwave, more cream to yellow under shortwave. It also looks like it is intermixed with muscovite...
ncat VHD11, Epidote, Spriggs Bore, Harts Range, Northern Territory
A cluster of lustrous green epidote crystals 29mm tall. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW401 Epidote, Harts Range, Northern Territory
Single larger than usual green epidote crystal, 50mm long. Probably Entia Valley. Ex Arthur Roffey Collection 453. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AA2 Epidote, Quartz, Old Mount Riddock Homestead Mine, Mt Riddock Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory
Prismatic green epidote on quartz. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0573 Epidote, No.34, Entia Valley, Harts Range, Northern Territory
Single very dark crystal 15mm long. It shows just a hint of green with very strong lighting. Stack of 40 images.. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2170 Mimetite, Duftite, Mount Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory
Yellow hexagonal mimetite roses on green duftite. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 142 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0342 Duftite, Mount Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory
One of the early specimens that was labelled Mount Evelyn to disguise where it actually came from. Olive-green to greenish-black crystals. Width of 11.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat TQ Dolomite, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory
Labelled “Rum Jungle Copper Mine”. Drill core segment 48mm in diameter from the 1960s. Dolomite crystals in a cavity. The Coomalie dolomite/magnesite dolostone is Precambrian and includes vuggy recrystallised zones (from metamorphic recrystallisation), and formed from stromatolites. It underlies some of the Rum Jungle mines. Click on the image below...
ncat VH735 Cordierite Kamulla Creek, Harts Range, Northern Territory
Massive translucent blue gem cordierite (iolite). Labelled Kamulla Creek, but I have not been able to locate this. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 17.25. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1752 Chrysoberyl, Mt Riddock Station, Harts Range, Northern Territory
Single green crystal on a sliver of matrix. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 37 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1756 Chalcopyrite, Hematite, Dolomite, Sepiolite, Peko Mine, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
One main twinned and iridescent chalcopyrite crystal with a few smaller ones, with hematite and fibrous cream sepiolite on dolomite. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW201 Cerussite, Malachite, Brown’s Prospect, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory
Prismatic brownish cerussite crystals, some twinned on green malachite. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 73 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD106 Pyromorphite, Cerussite, Malachite, Brown’s Prospect, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory
A neat reticulated cerussite specimen coated in tiny pyromorphite crystals. Sandwiched between the two is a bit of malachite. Specimen measures 48x45x22mm.
7471 JL1120 Azurite, Goethite, Malachite, Frances Creek Mine, Burrundie, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1986 from Mary Wilde of the Mordialloc Club.
7470 JL1549 Mimetite, Mount Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Barry Porter at the Horsham Gemkhana for $2.50.
4720 Azurite, Barite, Malbunka Copper Mine (Namatjira’s Copper Prospect; Areyonga Copper Deposit), Areyonga, Gardiner Range, MacDonnell Region, Northern Territory
Identified from the 2017 mining operation, acquired directly from the miner, Dehne McLaughlin. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7460 JL1169 Curite, Jabiru Mine, Alligator River, Northern Territory
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Michael Hirst.
7457 JL1548 Goethite, Hematite, Calcite, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 at the Horsham Gemkhana from Barry Porter for $2.
7452 JL1416 Albite, Titanite, Harts Range, Northern Territory
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 at the Ballarat Gemboree from Don McColl for 50c.
ncat VHD4 MB Aurichalcite, Hydrozincite, Hemimorphite, Evelyn Mine, Northern Territory
Pale blue acicular aurichalcite on granular white hydrozincite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7356 JL3132 Quartz, Gosse Bluff, Tnorala Conservation Reserve, MacDonnell Region, Northern Territory
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Judy Rowe. Collected by Judy and Stan Rowe in May, 1985.
7349 JL3200 Dumontite, Saléeite, Ranger Mine (Ranger Uranium Mine), Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
7336 JL3162 Saléeite, Quartz, Ranger Mine (Ranger Uranium Mine), Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
5722 Ruby Corundum, Mount Brady, Ambalindum Station, Harts Range, Northern Territory
Single red crystal (17mm longest direction) with very minor matrix. Fluoresces bright red (right hand image).
5179 JL0136 Copper, Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory
Sharp native copper crystals. Specimen height 7mm. Stack of 100 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
8201 M3884 Cuprite, Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory
Deep red octahedral crystals when strongly lit. Width 11mm. Stack of 116 images. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection.
9001 JP2561 Duftite, Cornwallite, Mt Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory
Labelled pseudomalachite and does look like it. But more likely cornwallite(?) given the occurrence of many arsenate minerals at Mt Bonnie. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width 9mm, stack of 70 images.
30093 Pyromorphite, Malachite, Emerald Pocket, Brown’s Prospect, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory
Collected August 2010 by Dave Rosewall and Paul Melville. Video best viewed full screen.
ncat M3034 Amethyst, Hematite, Harts Range, Northern Territory
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
ncat M1425 Cuprite (Chalcotrichite), Redbank Mine, Northern Territory
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
ncat M539 Aurichalcite, Mt Evelyn, Northern Territory
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
4922 Mimetite, Mt Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Campylite habit, Barry Schubert
10025 Pyromorphite, Kaolinite, Orlando Mine (Orlando West), Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory
White porcelaneous kaolinite on green prismatic pyromorphite. Closeup photo: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 46 images. From Greg Dainty: Specimen collected by Norman Robinson in the early 1980s, and as far as I know are the only pyromorphite ever found at this locality. The contrasting white and grey minerals...
10026 Chrysocolla, Malachite, Pyromorphite, Wulfenite, Cerussite, Quartz, Mt Fitch, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory
From Greg Dainty: This piece was collected, and labeled, by Norman Robinson, from an old exploration trench. Its hard to figure out exactly whats going on here, there is what appears to be chrysocolla replacing malachite, some malachite, some non replacement chrysocolla, as for the yellowish white mineral on the...
4255 Gold, Winnecke Goldfield, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
ex Jack Leach Collection
4195 Corundum (Ruby), Harts Range, Northern Territory
ex Jack Leach Collection
4187 Siderite, Iron Blow, Northern Territory
ex Jack Leach Collection
4072 Rutherfordine, El Sharana Mine, Northern Territory
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
6100 Metatorbernite, South Alligator Valley Mineral Field (South Alligator Gorge), Northern Territory
Ex-John O. Griesbach well-known and oft published geologist with his personal hand-written label and ex Scott J. Williams with his dealer label. Specimen measures 4 cm. x 3.3 cm. x 2.9 cm.
6012 Vandendriesscheite, Palette Mine, South Alligator Valley Mineral Field, Northern Territory
Bright yellow crystals mounted on cork pedestal.