0615 Chabazite, Sunderland Bluff, Victoria
Pseudocubic orange chabazite crystals sprinkled with goethite. Top photo: Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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0609 Chabazite-Na, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Pseudohexagonal chabazite-Na. Width of view 7.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3065 Chabazite, Natrolite, Thomsonite-Ca, Dolomite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Tiny pseudocubic chabazite impaled on natrolite with bladed thomsonite-Ca and a ball of white dolomite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3972 Chabazite-Na, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Pseudohexagonal phacolite chabazite. Width of view 5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5359 Siderite, Chabazite-Na, Pioneer Quarry, Narre Warren, Victoria
Basket Weave siderite with pseudocubic chabazite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1982. Width of view 10.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VH3590 Cervantite, Stibnite, Steels Creek, Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria
Yellow cervantite in fractures and on surfaces of massive stibnite. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. Acquired by Val from Ruth in 1993. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Topaz, Quartz Creek, Gentle Annie, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
A waterworn blue topaz, 43x25x23mm. Ex Peter Mostert. Click on the link below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP321 Barite, Phillipsite, Goethite, West Head, Flinders, Victoria
Off-white barite aggregates on iron-stained phillipsite with tiny black goethite balls. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP304 Dolomite, Analcime, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Globular dolomite on analcime crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VH99 Calcite, Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Grant, Portland, Victoria
A scalenohedral crystal group without matrix. Bluish-white fluorescence under longwave UV. Specimen is 20mm high. Ex Val Hannah Collection.
ncat VH108 Calcite Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Grant, Portland, Victoria
Colourless scalenohedral crystals, some with a white coating. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3876 Hematite, Siderite, Lake Cooper Quarry, Corop, Victoria
Unusual rhombohedral hematite showing some rainbow colouration, with orange-brown siderite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat NOVM JL3513 Strengite, Cacoxenite, Wavellite, Lavers Hill, Fish Creek, Hoddle Range, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Cacoxenite as yellow-orange to brown hemispheres of radiating crystals, some as bow-ties. Very pale purple strengite. Colourless prisms of wavellite. Obtained by Joan in 1999 from Robyn Sharp. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 56 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4268 Cacoxenite, Gravel Hill Quarry, Dookie, Victoria
Translucent-looking orange-brown hemispheres isolated from the more common yellow-orange acicular to fibrous ones. Acquired from John Haupt 4/06. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1391 Cacoxenite, Gravel Hill quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Orange hemispheres on an iridescent goethite background. They are zoned with a darker core. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images.
5746 Heulandite, Pyramid Rock, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Ex John Lewis collection.
ncat WD109 Stibnite, Berthierite, United Brothers Mine, Mount Wills, Victoria
Silver crystals in cavities in quartz. Ex Jack and Dawn Leach Collection. Ex Gordon Jackson Collection. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7473 JL1517 Gonnardite-Natrolite, Calcite, Old Melbourne Quarries, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991 from Melbourne Museum.
7472 JL0546 Gold, Heathcote, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1988 from Tony Fraser at the Canberra Gemboree for $1.
7469 JL0066 Zircon, Trentham Falls, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
A single orange zircon crystal mounted on a bristle(?). Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1983 from Hamish Pearson.
30129 Calcite, Stilbite, Giblin Street Quarry, Lenah Valley, Hobart City, Tasmania
Pale orange calcite crystals partially coated by tiny colourless stilbite crystals. Specimen size 85x75x40mm. White fluorescence under longwave UV (Convoy) with a green afterglow. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Ex Roseann Scotti Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7468 JL1151 Anglesite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992 at the Horsham Gemkhana from Barry Porter for $4.
7465 JL1479 Calcite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
The “Lighthouse”, sceptered calcite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
7462 JL1651 Pucherite, Morass Creek, Benambra, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
7461 JL1200 Vashegyite, Mount Avis, Edi-Cheshunt, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993. Ex Museum Victoria.
7459 JL1159 Zircon, Aragonite, Daylesford, Victoria
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1991 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip.
7455 JL0075 Chabazite, Calcite, Portland Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Sir William Grant, Portland, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1982 from Frank Robinson.
7453 JL0920 Dolomite, Flinders, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991 from Frank Robinson.
7450 JL1107 Zircon, Lake Bullenmerri, Victoria
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1982 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip.
7448 JL3945 Vivianite, Demon’s Bluff, Anglesea, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Dick Haslam.
7445 JL0846 Chabazite, Gonnardite-Natrolite, Boral Quarry, Bundoora, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
7442 JL1746 Tridymite, Spring Hill, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Judy Rowe.
4535 Axinite-(Fe), Lake Cooper Quarry, Corop, Victoria
Pale pink axinite-(Fe). Width of view 9mm. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7014 JL2046 Schorl, Axinite-(Fe), Danburite, Vesuvianite, Gravel Hill quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Collected by Bill Birch and Dermot Henry in 1996. Pictured is purple axinite and colourless danburite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0760 Eosphorite, Autunite, Wycheproof Quarry, Wycheproof, Victoria
Thin greenish-yellow plates of highly fluorescence autunite with orange-yellow rounded eosphorite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. UV photo: Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 4 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VH93 Augite, Ilmenite, Portland Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Sir William Grant, Portland, Victoria
Black prismatic augite crystals with brown coated ilmenite. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0878 Gold, Stibnite, Heathcote, Victoria
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.
0550 Fluorapophyllite-(K), Calcite, Natrolite, Phillipsite, Pioneer Quarry, Harkaway, Victoria
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.
ncat JP1240 Aragonite, Trentham Falls, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat JP3684 Aragonite, Nichterlein’s quarry, Lower Paper Mills Road, Fyansford, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
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...
ncat JP3664 Aragonite, Jackson’s Creek, Panorama Drive, Gisborne, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat JP485 Aragonite, Tylden quarry, Tylden, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
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...
ncat JP1429 Aragonite, Rosslynne Reservoir, Gisborne, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat JP3618 Fluorapatite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
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.
ncat JP2434 Fluorapatite, Albite, Pyramid Hill granite quarry (Mawson’s Quarry), Pyramid Hill, Loddon Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat BDMAR01 M1007 Fluorapatite, Lake Boga, Victoria
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.
ncat VHD4, Tourmaline, Pyrite, Quartz, Fluorapatite, Pyramid Hill, Victoria
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.
0826 Andradite, Clinozoisite, Actinolite, Ferro-axinite, Dookie Mineral Reserve, Dookie, Victoria
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…
4366 JL3712 Antimony, Queen’s Birthday Mine, Goldsborough, near Dunolly, Victoria
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…
5738 Stibnite, Costerfield, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
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…
5737 Sulphur, Costerfield, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
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…
ncat 442 VHD11, Analcime, Gmelinite-Na, Simmons Bay, Flinders, Victoria
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.
9141 JP2798 Almandine, Gentle Annie mine, Sunnyside, Mt Wills mining district, Omeo, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Pink almandine garnets in matrix. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on image below for a better resolution version.
40026 RH1023 Phillipsite, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
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...
40025 RH1357 Vivianite, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
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…
40024 RH2302 Pseudobrookite, Magnetite, Enstatite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
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...
5732 Calcite, Maude, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
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.
40023 RH Ilmenite, Lethbridge quarry, Lethbridge, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
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.
40022 RH Andesine, Ilmenite, Lethbridge quarry, Lethbridge, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
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.
40021 RH2568 Clinopyroxene Subgroup, Andesine, Ilmenite, Calcite, Dreeite, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
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....
40020 RH Hyalite Opal, Miners Rest Quarry, Miners Rest, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Ex Dick Haslam Collection
40019 RH1154 Siderite, Armytage Quarry, Armytage, Surf Coast Shire, Victoria
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.
40018 RH Hyalite Opal, Miners Rest Quarry, Miners Rest, City of Ballarat, Victoria
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.
40017 RH1345 Pharmacosiderite, Dravite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
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...
40004 RH Ilmenite, Augite, Andesine, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
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.
40005 RH1029 Fayalite, Andesine, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
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.
40003 RH Augite, Andesine, Hyalite Opal, Ilmenite, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
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...
40002 RH Hyalite Opal, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution one.
40001 RH Andesine, Augite, Apatite, Miners Rest Quarry, Miners Rest, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Ex R Haslam Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images.
5731 Pyrite, Eaglehawk Mine, Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria
Crystalline (but not crystals) of pyrite in quartz. Collected January 2021. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
7422 JL0961 Turquoise, Site 3, Edi-Cheshunt turquoise field, Whitfield, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992 from Frank Robinson.
0881 Stibnite, Red Hill, Heathcote, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
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.
7415 JL3069 Magnetite, Fluorapatite, Diopside, Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show for $1.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
7405 JL3651 Anatase, Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Judy Rowe. Judy was involved in the hand-sorting of heavy minerals from the deposit.
7404 JL1655 Cinnabar, Mercury, Jamieson Mercury mine, Quicksilver creek, Jamieson, Mansfield Shire, Victoria
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.
7403 JL1741 Gmelinite-Chabazite, Analcime, Point Sambell, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Gmelinite-chabazite intergrowth. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 75 images.
7401 JL1724 Stibiconite, Stibnite, Ringwood Gold and Antimony Mine (Antimony Mine), Ringwood, City of Maroondah, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Ruth Coulsell (fluornatrocoulsellite). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 34 images.
7400 JL1740 Chabazite, Calcite, Point Sambell, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 64 images.
7399 JL1820 Calcite, Korumburra, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson.
7389 JL1821 Clinozoisite, Mokoan quarry, Goorambat, Rural City of Benalla, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991. Ex Museum Victoria.
7388 JL3708 Chabazite, Thomsonite-Ca, Organ Pipes National Park, City of Hume/Brimbank, Victoria
The Organ Pipes National Park is enclosed in two Cities: Hume to the north of Jacksons Creek, and Brimbank to the south. It is not known which side of the creek this specimen was collected from. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1997 from Rob Hamson. Collected by Prof. R.A. Willis...
7380 JL3766 Siderite, Montmorillonite, Pioneer quarry, Narre Warren North, City of Casey, Victoria
Basketweave siderite. Collected by Joan Lamond in 1982. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 150 images.
7379 JL1822 Ferro-richterite, Camels Hump, Mount Macedon, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
Mindat only lists richterite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Don Billinghurst.
7371 JL3673 Phillipsite-Na, Siderite, Pioneer quarry, Narre Warren North, City of Casey, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Jack Leach. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 80 images.
7370 JL1736 Barite, Chabazite, Redcliff Head (Red Cliff Head), Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
7369 JL1705 Hyalite Opal, Trentham Falls, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Michael Hirst.
7364 JL3382 Sasaite, Turquoise, Site 3, Edi-Cheshunt turquoise field, Whitfield, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 from Robyn Sharp.
7359 JL3034 Pyrite, Mount Tarrengower, Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from the Bendigo Show club stall for $0.50.
7352 JL3683 Olivine, Andesine, CSR Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Judy Rowe in 2000.