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 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.
Erythrite as deep pink crystals and pale pink botryoidal cobalt bloom with unidentified lilac patches. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown crystals identified as ernstite by the late Vince Peisley. There has been doubt cast on the validity of ernstite at this locality, as the original material can not be found, and subsequent pieces analysed have turned out to be childrenite. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 5.75mm Stack of...
Silky overgrowths of erionite (labelled as offretite) on levyne crystals. Ex Lesley and Doug Ball Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silky erionite overgrowths clearly showing on broken levyne crystal with grey calcite crystal (the calcite is 6mm tall). Adjacent vugh is lined with thomsonite and has tiny chabazite crystals sprinkled over it. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny colourless hexagonal prisms of erionite (sizes in photo captions). Click on the images for a higher resolution version.
Single pale blue crystal 9mm tall. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon #T8. Acquired by them from “Glad” (Rangott?, Jackson?). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hexagonal silver crystals with other manganese phases. 2022 mining. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2022 production. Crystals 22mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2022 production. Longest crystal is 30mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Non-descript looking material. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 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.
A cluster of lustrous green epidote crystals 29mm tall. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 green epidote crystal impaled on pyrite, all on dark brown andradite garnet. Presumably, the epidote interrupted the growth of the pyrite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic green epidote crystals with dark green actinolite and yellowish-green titanite, the latter two not in the photo. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. (First image) Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Below: Actinolite and albite, with minor epidote and pale titanite. Width of...
Labelled as Briagolong. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Doug Gaw at the 1999 Waverley Show. Width of View 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark brown prismatic crystals with pale yellow fibrous meurigite-K, and tiny bright yellow cyrilovite. Width of view 2.88mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown prismatic crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection #1172. Ex Museum Victoria. Specimen is 10mm wide. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Transparent thin bladed tan crystals of enstatite with pseudobrookite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 220 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown crystals of enstatite with minor pseudobrookite and hematite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Parallel aggregates of grey, partly tarnished crystals with white kaolinite. Ex Mal Annells Collection #1424. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 99 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green crystal fragment 19mm long with interesting parallel growth faces. The C axis runs from left to right. Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Gemmy blue terminated crystal 14mm long with lepidolite at the termination (crystal shown “upside down”). Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single terminated crystal 14.5mm long, green with a black cap. Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single 15mm long terminated crystal, mostly green then a small blue section and a black cap. Collected by Vince Peisley. 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.
Type Locality. Tiny black-brown inclusions in quartz. Associated with brown-orange almandine-spessartine. Ex Gunnar Färber. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 128 images. 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.
White botryoidal spheres, some coloured green by nickel. Ex Joan Lamond Collection, Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1989 from John Haupt. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White acicular clusters of dundasite with minor red crocoite. This photo clearly shows the challenge of getting clean specimens from the gossans of the mines in the area! Type Locality for dundasite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Clusters of snow-white crystals on prismatic orange crocoite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale green to white balls of dypingite in serpentine. Ex Jack Leach Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Creamy balls of dundasite with bright white tips to the crystals, and a few tiny crocoite crystals. Labelled as Red Lead Mine, this is clearly a Kapi Mine specimen. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 91 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
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.
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.
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 greenish black dufrénite with almost colourless leucophosphite. Also on specimen but not in photo, morinite and cyrilovite. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 95 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive green crust of tiny crystals of dufrénite, with pinkish-white strengite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 2001. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark greenish-blue dufrenite with greenish-yellow to brown cyrilovite. Ex Barry Schubert. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Very dark green crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 145 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-green dufrénite with brown eosphorite and highly fluorescent saléeite. Ex Pat Sutton. Dufrénite not listed in Mindat, but I assume Pat analysed. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 76 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.
Brown prismatic crystals. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic translucent brown tourmaline crystal (dravite?) showing termination (right hand side), embedded in massive vein quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Collected 2/2005. Brown prismatic tourmaline crystals, visually identified by Ralph Bottrill as dravite at the time of collecting, but not analysed to my knowledge. Probably better described as dravite-schorl series. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 49 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny blue crystals of domerock (eg: centre of image) with green balls of conichalcite (eg two spheres top right of photo) and white kaolinite. Type Locality. Width of view 2.88mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue tiny crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 62 images.
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 quartz with yellow dolomite and minor pyrite. Specimen measures 28x33x10mm.
Colourless zoned rhombs. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 26 images Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny dolomite crystal perched on the end of a pseudobrookite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A lot going on in a small space here. A layer of calcite is coated by quartz, then yellow spheres of dolomite. On top of this sits a malachite after cuprite crystal aggregate, and then a sprinkling of tiny calcite crystals on the dolomite and malachite. Width of view 11.5mm....
White curved rhombs of dolomite on matrix. Labelled EZ Mine. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Multiple generations of dolomite. First chocolate-coloured rhombohedra, followed by a much paler (yellow-coated) layer over the same crystals (possibly just a change in chemical composition), with a final white opaque crust here and there. Also, some managnese dendrites bottom right of the photo. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of...
Multiple generations of dolomite. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White rhombohedra. Specimen is 60mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rhombohedral dolomite with oxidised pyrite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 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.
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...
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 Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1983 at the Adelaide Mineralogical Seminar. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Roxbyite inclusions in massive djurleite. 22x11x6mm. Type Locality for roxbyite. 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.
Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1983 at the Adelaide Mineralogical Seminar. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Arborescent copper crystal group 16mm wide.
Type Locality for aldridgeite. Tiny pale blue acicular crystals of aldridgeite. Blue platy crystals of niedermayrite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dickite as tiny white tabular crystals on boulangerite and coating fluorite, with tan magnesite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green “Selwynite”, a rock. Chromian muscovite (fuchsite) mixed with diaspore with muscovite veins. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White dickite with dark green atacamite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 90 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Roger Colling Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1999. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White dickite (analysed) with tan siderite and colourless quartz. Specimen is 56mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky zoned crystals from the original find of stolzite at Kara. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images.
Two small diamonds, one just under 3mm wide, the other just over 3mm wide. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Four crude crystals, largest 16mm wide. Ex Trevor Dart. 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.
Fairly sharp crystal 10mm across. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Purchased by Joan from Peter Anderson for $5 in 1995. 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.
Colourless radiating prismatic crystals of danburite with green clinozoisite. Minor purple fluorite visible too. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1997. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Opaque white radiating crystals with dark green prismatic actinolite and light green vesuvianite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny prismatic grey crystals (arrowed) in a small vugh. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red danalite with some crystal faces, frozen in matrix with magnetite and fluorite. Specimen measures 62x46x40mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bright thin leaf gold sitting up from matrix.
Superb blue sprays of connellite in slag.
Fluorescent red calcite and a pyrite ring.
Stunning chalcopyrite crystals looking hoppered with balls of goethite needles on barite.
Very pale yellow flattened crystals.
Greenish-yellow cyrilovite on goethite and kapundaite. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. 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.
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.
