0614 Analcime, Natrolite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Photo width 11mm.
Victoria
5352 JL0942 Montmorillonite, Pyrite, Barite, West Head, Flinders, Victoria
Photo width 5mm and 2.5mm.
1146 Mesolite, Levyne, Erionite, Sunderland Bluff, Phillip Island, Victoria
White massive mesolite with erionite epitaxially growing on levyne. Photo width 11mm.
0305 Gypsum, Fossil Beach, Mornington, Victoria
A well-known fossil locality southeast of Melbourne. Collecting no longer allowed.
0431 Calcite, Niddrie, Victoria
Collected by me over 30 years ago. The quarry is now a small lake surrounded by housing.
0463 Calcite, Mn Oxide, Lilydale Quarry, Lilydale, Victoria
Usually referred to as “pyrolusite”, but exact manganese oxide unknown.
0676 Thomsonite-Ca, Chabazite-Na, Gonnardite-Natrolite, Bundoora, Victoria
Grey thomsonite balls, colourless pseudohexagonal chabazite crystals, and white tufts of gonnardite-natrolite.
10024 Wavellite, Phosphate Hill, Mansfield, Victoria
The specimen has very good coverage of wavellite, and interestingly some of the back areas of the specimen has wavellite in other colours, light green, and water-clear. Ex Neil Smith collection. 48x30x37mm.
1112 Copper, Chabazite-Na, Bundoora, Victoria
Very fresh-looking copper protected beneath chabazite-Na from the Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, City of Whittlesea, Victoria.
1090 Calcite, Bundoora, Victoria
Unusual habit for the locality of colourless calcite crystals, Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, City of Whittlesea, Victoria.
1088 Barite, Bundoora, Victoria
Colourless to white bladed crystals of barite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3844 Smoky Quartz, Mooralla, Victoria
3844 Smoky Quartz Rabbit, Anderson’s Gully (Anderson’s Creek), Mooralla, Southern Grampians Shire, Victoria
0674 Ferroan Calcite, Gonnardite-Natrolite, Bundoora, Victoria
Brown ferroan calcite with a white gonnardite/natrolite intergrowth from the Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, City of Whittlesea, Victoria.
0498 Vivianite, Anglesea, Victoria, Australia
A polished vivianite halved nodule from Demons Bluff, Anglesea, Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia. It is over 100mm across.
0161 Smoky Quartz, Mooralla, Victoria
One of the most iconic smoky quartz localities in Australia, Mooralla, Southern Grampians Shire, Victoria. This locality, which is a designated fossicking area, has produced many stunning smoky quartz specimens since the 1960s. They occur often on a bed of small clear quartz in miarolitic cavities in rhyolite. This one...
5529 Gmelinite-Na, Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Victoria
Hard to photograph these very glassy crystals of gmelinite-Na from Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Victoria.
0234 Pseudomalachite, Libethenite, Lake Boga, Victoria
Blue-green pseudomalachite balls on dark green libethenite crystals from the Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria.