0190 Arsenopyrite, Golden Gully, Bendigo, Victoria
Oxidised twinned crystals from slate. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 60 images.
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5848 Quartz (Battery Sand), Misery Creek area, near Berringa, Victoria
Quartz grains from a gold mine battery. Quite fine crushed quartz. The old-timers would have extracted almost all of the gold. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 60 images.
0083 Gold, Stibnite, Red Hill, Heathcote, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Spongy bright yellow gold with stibnite in quartz. Collected before the open pit operation. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images.
1960 Marcasite, Torquay, Surf Coast Shire, Victoria
A marcasite nodule that is unaltered (compare specimen 0189). Width of view 14mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0189 Marcasite, Gypsum, Halotrichite, Rozenite, Torquay, Surf Coast Shire, Victoria
What was once a very nice sharp nodule of crystalline marcasite is now mostly sulphate minerals, possibly colourless gypsum, white fibres of halotrichite, and pink rozenite amongst others. Width of view 14mm. Stack of 35 images. Exact location not known but possibly Addiscot Beach at the top of the Angahook...
1014 Löllingite, Dry Creek, Eldorado, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria
Patches of Löllingite in granite. Ex Don Billinghurst Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7456 JL0793 Lithiophorite, Warburton, Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria
Black botryoidal lithiophorite in sandstone. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1989. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat BDMAR01 M3786 Turquoise, Fluorapatite, Libethenite, Albite, Orthoclase, Smoky Quartz, Muscovite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
A green spray of libethenite crystals with pale blue turquoise on albite, orthoclase and smoky quartz, with very pale pink fluorapatite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0251 Libethenite, Lake Boga, Victoria0251 Libethenite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria0251 Libethenite, Lake Boga, Victoria
Two genereations of spiky balls of green libethenite in a quartz cavity. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR12 Levyne-Ca, Erionite, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
Thin plates of levyne with silky overgrowth of erionite. Ex Judy Rowe. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0617 Chabazite, Levyne-Na, ‘Pyrolusite’, Erionite, Sunderland Bluff, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Orange rhombohedral chabazite on hexagonal crystals of levyne. Black “pyrolusite” balls are sprinkled around. Erionite is evident as a very thin coating of levyne, obvious when you look at the broken crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP892 Levyne, Erionite-Na, Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Silky fibrous erionite growing epitaxially on thin levyne crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.