Collected by Joan Lamond in 1983 on a field trip that was part of the Adelaide Mineralogical Society Seminar. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Flat bladed green atacamite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
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.
A 5-rayed twin rather than the normal 6! Crystal group is 5mm across.
Spongy reddish gold that results possibly from the breakdown of aurostibite(?) with small areas of more yellow native gold, and silver stibnite. Collected by me in the early 1990s. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange and red greenockite with galena, tennantite-tetrahedrite, pyrite and cerussite. The orange greenockite fluoresces red but the red crystals don’t. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 72 images (white light) and a stack of only 3 images (UV). Illustrated in the Australian Journal of Mineralogy magazine. Click on the images...
Yellow crystals in a cavity in dolomite, Ex Albert Schrander-Hettinga, 2005. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A small terminated colourless aragonite crystal in amongst crystalline pink aragonite (coloured by strontium?). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White blocky crystals of fluorapophyllite-(K), some corroded, on a bed of phillipsite, with natrolite and calcite, some of which are perched on natrolite needles. Main image width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Apophyllite crystals (probably fluorapophyllite-(K)) on brown bladed crystals of inesite. Ex Brian Shelton Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Flat-lying bladed colourless aragonite crystals on green serpentine with minor dark purple stichtite (not in photo). At one time, these were described as magnesite, but analysis showed them to be aragonite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a...
A spray of aragonite bladed crystals with unusual zig-zag markings on the faces. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ugly looking aragonite crystals that appear to have been partially etched giving them a greyish appearance, and then clear colourless tips have been added to the terminations. From an old locality. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a...
A radiating spray of aragonite needles. Many of these sprays have seeded on an earlier larger aragonite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A spray of tapered aragonite crystals, with this image showing some of the typical terminations (and a broken crystal – third from the left, demonstrating the fragile nature of such specimens). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a...
A neat spray of bladed aragonite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A brown partially melted hexagonal apatite crystal with a hollow centre. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single hexagonal yellowish apatite crystal perched on albite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A nice spray of thin colourless aragonite blades. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Second photo shows complex twinned chabazite with the aragonite in the background. Dark green hemispheres are saponite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution...
~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.
A nice cluster of zoned tabular hexagonal fluorapatite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 22mm. Stack of 17 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A mass of lime green hexagonal pyromorphite crystals from the MMM South Mine operations. Width of view is 9.5mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. (Top photo taken with my Canon 750D (that is about 17Mp) with microscope lens attachment compared with...
A coated hexagonal prism of fluorapatite from the Pyramid Hill granite Quarry, Victoria. Not as pretty as the Lake Boga ones. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 10 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fluorapophyllite (probably fluorapophyllite-(K)) crystal showing typical cleavage planes. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hair-like colourless crystals of fluorapatite. Also present, white millisite on blocky wardite crystals, and green kidwellite. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ankerite with colourless prismatic quartz and minor chalcopyrite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny anglesite crystals with even smaller orange minium. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky anglesite crystal. Acquired from Richard Wolfe 2/2005. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unusual hoppered(?) crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Group of sharp anglesite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Elongated colourless crystals of anglesite, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Collected on the dumps at the Pinnacles Mine. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A lovely green anglesite from the 1998 discovery in the Block 14 open cut. Previously in the Milton Lavers Collection. Photo width 3.5mm. Stack of 33 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...
An orange andradite caterpillar. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 20 images. Clinozoisite photo width 11.5mm. Stack of 34 items. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version…
An interesting specimen with an analcime crystal on blue-grey saponite. The dark areas appear to be whatever material is sitting underneath the saponite. There are two other similar size analcime crystals in this vugh and all have the same thing underneath. Smaller analcime crystals in the vugh don’t. Collected by...
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…
Pale tan ferroan dolomite crystals on dark brown siderite. There is also a tiny pyrite cube visible in the photo, slightly to the right and below centre. The dolomite could grade into ankerite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Tin-white crystal aggregates of native antimony in a thin vein. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Roger Colling Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Tin-white patches, some crystalline, of native antimony. Acquired from Diederik Visser. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Antimony from Lucknow is recorded in a Mining article in the Sydney Mail newspaper of 31 May, 1890. Interestingly, correspondence with William Frederick Petterd, the father of mineralogy in Tasmania, is...
Interesting bent crystal. Found on the mullock heap area near the main shaft of the Costerfield mine. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Lustrous pale yellow crystal of sulphur in slag from the mullock heap area near the main shaft of the Costerfield mine. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Double-terminated alstonite crystal group on a sulphide matrix (sphalerite, pyrite and galena). Also present but not in photo are twinned harmotome crystals. The sphalerite is providing the orange colour in the alstonite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
It’s interesting to see a specimen with a paragenesis. In this instance, a double-terminated is surrounded by drill-bit twinned harmotome, but also has a harmotome perched on the alstonite crystal. The alstonite also has a frosted look in parts. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the...
Double-terminated alstonite crystal on a tiny bit of sulphide matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Double-terminated alstonite crystal on a tiny bit of sulphide matrix (sphalerite and galena). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Interesting arsenopyrite with siderite(?) on a quartz matrix. There are also prismatic bavenite crystals amongst the carbonate blades (not evident in photo). Specimen is 38mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red gmelinite with colourless analcime crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single red crystal 7mm in the longest direction. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic arsenopyrite crystals, including a trilling (six-rayed star) twin, with tiny spear-shaped acanthite sprays. You can also see some light greenish yellow crystals of a possible beudantite group mineral. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink almandine garnets in matrix. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on image below for a better resolution version.
Lustrous twinned phillipsite (Stemple twin?). The smaller crystals in the image looked like possible pseudohexagonal chabazite under the microscope, but in the photo, it is clear that they too, are phillipsites. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a...
Blue to black spray of vivianite crystals in a vugh in basalt. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Brown pseudobrookite crystals with tiny yellow transparent enstatite crystals. The larger pseudobrookite crystal has a “bend” in it, clearly an abrupt change of growth direction, not rare but also not common at this locality. The smaller crystal is highly reflective. Magnetite is out of view of this photo. Ex Dick...
White hemispherical calcite that shows banding on broken surfaces. Collected at Bunjil’s Lookout, Maude, and most likely comes from the nearby Mountain View quarry. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Iridescent ilmenite crystal with an interesting growth. The specimen needs an ultrasonic clean but wanted to take the photo first in case I lose the crystal! Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An interesting grouping of andesine crystals. There is a couple of sharp ilmenite crystals in the background too. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the photo below for a higher resolution version.
From Joel Kirkman farm in Dreeite. Sharp green clinopyroxene crystals with white tabular andesine crystals. Also present is an ilmenite crystal to the right of the clinopyroxene (showing rainbow colouring), and tiny calcites(?) sprinkled over the andesine crystals. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images....
Ex Dick Haslam Collection
Zoned hemispheres of siderite possibly grading into ferroan calcite. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on image below for a higher resolution version.
An unusual shape! Reminiscent of a pipe, or a rugose coral, this hyalite opal has seeded on a prismatic augite crystal. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green cubic pharmacosiderite crystals on brown dravite. The paragenesis is very clear here. Both ends of the dravite crystal are embedded in quartz. The pharmacosiderite is only on the dravite outside the quartz. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on image below for...
A hexagonal-shaped ilmenite crystal sitting on a black prismatic augite crystal. The white tabular crystals are andesine. Needle-like crystals are probably apatite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Click on image below for a higher resolution one.
Brown fayalite(?) crystals with grey-green andesine. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.83mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A fairly rough-looking white andesine crystal is perched on the end of a prismatic dark brown, almost black augite crystal. But wait there’s more. The top third of the augite crystal is coated by a thin blob of colourless hyalite opal. This hyalite also coats a number of small triangular...
Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution one.
Ex R Haslam Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images.
Small yellow barite crystals on matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click Image for High Resolution
Crystalline (but not crystals) of pyrite in quartz. Collected January 2021. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 at the Castlemaine Gemkana from a tailgater from Whyalla for $0.50.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Type Locality for norrishite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992. Ex Museum Victoria. Collected in 1898.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1997 from Jack Leach.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992 from Frank Robinson.
This stibnite specimen was collected from the open cut area before it was open cut. Some superb curving stibnite crystals! Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show for $1.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 63 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Brian Beyer at the Adelaide Mineralogical Society Seminar for $1.00. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 60 images.
Labelled as hinsdalite but likely plumbogummite, and as “Sylvester Mine”. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $4.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $2.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Judy Rowe. Judy was involved in the hand-sorting of heavy minerals from the deposit.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995. Ex Museum Victoria. Ex Somerset Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Gmelinite-chabazite intergrowth. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 75 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2001 from a Tailgater at the Wagga Gemboree.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Ruth Coulsell (fluornatrocoulsellite). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 34 images.
