ncat VH365 Jacobsite, Iron Monarch Mine, Iron Knob, South Australia
Jacobsite crystals on typical hematite matrix. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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ncat VH364 Jacobsite, Iron Monarch Mine, Iron Knob, South Australia
Black modified octahedral crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3042 RI Jacobsite, Zinc Corp Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Jacobsite grains with mixed sulphides. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. 45mm wide.
ncat JP3052 Ixiolite, Londonderry Li deposit (Londonderry Feldspar Quarry; Fraser’s Find; Frazer’s Find; Scahill’s Quarry), Nepean, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
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.
5239 Isoclasite, Fluorapatite, South Point, Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island
Isoclasite intermixed with fluorapatite. Ex Gunnar Farber. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Christmas Island phosphate minerals reference.
ncat JP2-24-2 Ishikawaite, Titanite, Mount Painter No. 2 workings, Mt Painter area, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Black opaque and brown resinous mineral with possible samarskite, and a small amount of fluorescent autunite? A titanite crystal is embedded in the matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 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 MARXX Iriginite, Ben Lomond Mine, Charters Towers Region, Queensland
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.
ncat OW403 Osmiridium, Iridium, Osmium, Bald Hill osmiridium field, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Osmiridium grains. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD105 “Osmiridium”, Osmium, Iridium, Chromite, Adamsfield, Derwent Valley municipality, Tasmania
Rounded grains of osmiridium with sharp black crystals of chromite collected by Rusty Morley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
6087 Osmium, Iridium, Fifield, Kennedy Co., New South Wales
Labelled as osmiridium (now determined to be iridium, as silver grains with hexagonal plates (which are most likely osmium)). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 24 images.
ncat FEB01 Iowaite, Pentlandite, Woodallite, Stage D Pit, Mount Keith Mine, Western Australia
Lamellar vein in lizardite with metallic pentlandite and purple woodallite blebs. Ex Ben Grguric. Specimen measures 55x47x30mm.