Specimen has some beginning signs of “pyrite disease”. Apart from the pyrite and marcasite, there are a few small crystals of spessartine and fluorapatite. Ex James Melville Collection. Width of view 10mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Two groups of marcasite crystals with orange dolomite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan from Frank Robinson in 1990. Width of view 10mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
A single crystal with minor tarnishing and no matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silver crystal of Löllingite. Ex Albert Chapman. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
Pink rhodochrosite balls and isolated rhombohedral crystals on quartz. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 90 images.
Pale green opaque sprays of libethenite with globular pseudomalachite, and quartz crystals. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark green pseudo-octahedral libethenite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 115 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Platy blue sampleite, light green libethenite sprays, and darker green pseudomalachite. Libethenite photo: Width of view 6mm, stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous black bladed crystals with blue rosasite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless hexagonal plates in slag. Ex Jo Price Collection. White light photo: Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Longwave UV photo: Width of view 3mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Hetty’s Rockshop, Christchurch, New Zealand, 9/2004. White laumontite on orange stellerite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
From Level 16, NBHC. See https://rruff.info/uploads/CM46_73.pdf. Laumontite fluoresces blue under LWUV. Laumontite photo: First image: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Second image: Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Deep blue crystalline coating in corroded galena. Also present light blue caledonite(?), and prismatic pyromorphite. Other species also present (eg: spessartine, chlorargyrite). Ex Mal Annear collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Grey rhombs of dolomite that fluoresce white are perched on the tips of kutnohorite sprays. Red fluorescing calcite present in the matrix. Patchy yellow fluorescence is probably cerussite. Specimen measures 80x65x10mm.
Groups of typical kutnohorite with quartz and a little pyrite, all on a matrix of pale pink fluorescent manganoan calcite. Specimen measures 60x40x20mm.
Quartz crystals and a couple of fluorescent red calcite crystals on a spray of kutnohorite. There are pyrite crystals included in the quartz, as well as on the quartz and on the kutnohorite, some of which are oxidised. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images....
Pale crystals of kutnohorite on quartz with pyrite, all on a bed of fluorescent Mn-calcite. Specimen measures 4×5.5cm. Ex W.F. Davidson Collection. Ex Ralph Merrill Collection. Close up photo: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sky blue ktenasite with green brochantite on reticulated cerussite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Ex Peter Elliott. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue coating of ktenasite. Gordaite not in photo. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Ex Peter Elliott. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue crystals, post-mining occurrence. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images.
Greenish-yellow masses. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White acicular sprays of kleemanite on green smithsonite. Also present but not in photo, cerussite and linarite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny green crystal aggregates. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Two pieces. Type Locality. Pale olive green with brighter yellow-green balls. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for kingsgateite. Yellowish green kingsgateite with blue gelosaite on smoky quartz. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. XRD Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for kingsgateite. Tiny green kingsgateite crystals with blue gelosaite on smoky quartz. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 160 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silky kidwellite on dark green dufrenite. Green spheres of chalcosiderite? Yellow-green hinsdalite. Colourless prismatic pyromorphite? Blue-green tsumebite not in photo. Ex Pat Sutton Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sprays of dark red kermesite on black stibnite. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red kermesite with silver paradocrasite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White kaolinite on dark green segnitite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A complete replacement of smithsonite by creamy white kaolinite. Olive-green chlorargyrite crystals also present. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-grey kaolinite completely covering goethite stalactites. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width 32mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Kaolinite matrix hosting (and being replaced by?) grey tenorite. Ex Diederik Visser. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tarnished curved crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silver lamellar mass without matrix. Ex Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark crystals on galena with a couple of spessartine garnets. Measures 21mm wide. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Probably Mn-rich hedenbergite. Green crystals with pink to brown bustamite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny brown crystals of jarosite with bluish-green gahnite, and unknown pale yellow, in quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Jacobsite grains with mixed sulphides. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. 45mm wide.
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.
Yellow-green bromium chlorargyrite (“embolite”) on white “snail trail” iodargyrite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale-coloured crystals, some clearly showing hexagonal habit. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single 6mm long pinkish-brown transparent crystal without matrix. Interesting “inclusions”. Towards the bottom are things that look a bit like hexagonal wire fencing that we have used in the past around vegetable gardens an the like, known as chicken wire. These appear to be partly at and partly near...
Rounded zircons, mostly orange, but also pale pink, with black ilmenite, and a few colourless quartz crystals, from sands at Byron Bay. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1968. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black mass of crystalline material embedded in matrix. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A crystalline mass of native arsenic showing some individual trigonal crystals. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single white crystal of hydroxyapophyllite, with a few colourless needles of natrolite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A very rich specimen of tan coloured marshite that fluoresces bright red, with pale blue aurichalcite and green smithsonite. Ex Peter Hall. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images (white light), 30 images (UV). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow scalenohedral crystal groups of beudantite-segnitite, with dark red carminite needles. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A group of calcite crystals on a calcite ball in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Bluish-white fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 34 images (whitelight), 16 (UV). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
A group of dark calcite crystals that show zoning under longwave ultraviolet light in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 56 images (whitelight), 30 (UV). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
A steeply-terminated calcite crystal with a dark core in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. The main calcite crystal fluoresces orange under longwave ultraviolet light. A second partial brown calcite fluoresces bright white. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 80 images (whitelight), 17 (UV)....
Cuprian tarbuttite with green beudantite and green coatings and crystals of hinsdalite.. Collected by Joan Lamond in 1999 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green corkite-hinsdalite on colourless pyromorphite with white scholzite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Collected by Joan on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip in 1991. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive-green micro crystals of hidalgoite on/after mimetite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cavity lined with heulandite crystals ranging in colour from yellow-orange through to orange-red. Some crystals have colourless zones. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Grungy brown coating of hausmannite over alabandite. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Older photo…
An aesthetic and really interesting specimen. Four well-formed cuprite crystals with tiny green brochantite crystals and blue connellite puffballs, sitting on a bed of white smithsonite stained by goethite. Then under longwave UV, you can see a couple of light red fluorescing calcite crystals, and small areas of tiny marshite...
Colourless gypsum crystals with a white granular coating. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green chrome-rich grossular garnet crystals. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A nice group of bournonite crystals perched on brassy arsenopyrite and dark sphalerite crystals. Quartz crystals on specimen but not in photo. Height of view 5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark red prismatic carminite with yellow-green beudantite-segnitite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 18 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A small fragment of goslarite showing some tiny crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A small spray of graphite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as Union Mine, included in Golden Gully Area in Mindat. Thin hackly leaf gold in quartz. Ex D.J. Parsons Collection, Rapid City, South Dakota. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 49 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as Union Mine, included in Golden Gully Area in Mindat. Thin crystalline leaf gold in quartz. Ex D.J. Parsons Collection, Rapid City, South Dakota. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 122 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny area of gold. Gold from this location is rare, small, and hard to find! There is a second, even smaller, piece of gold on the specimen that I didn’t pick up until I had taken the photo. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Ex Jo Price. Width of view 4.5mm....
Beautiful branching gold crystals on galena and quartz. Width of view 6.75mm. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Patchy gold in iron-stained quartz. Ex Chris Ah Yee. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dendritic crystalline gold without matrix. Precise mine not known. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Aquired by Joan from Norman Robinson in 1986 at the Loxton Gemboree, South Australia, for $5. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small gold pieces in serpentine. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 41 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hackly gold on and in matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Tony Fraser. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A 2mm wide gold crystal with a face! Pareidolia! Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Pareidolia is defined as the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. It is the human ability to see shapes or make pictures out of randomness. Think about the...
A tiny speck of gold in quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 34 images. This would be one of the deposits/short-lived mines of the village of Moonee Beach. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-grey fibrous glaucophane schist. Specimen measures 16x13x8mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless analcime on pink gmelinite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 17.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Goethite replaced earlier azurite and/or malachite(?) with an overgrowth of malachite. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny sprays of goethite on an opal lining of a vesicle. Siderite crystals in another vesicle. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 2002 from Ann and Noel Kennon. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. Ex Val Hannah Collection. 55x33x18mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
XRD Confirmed. Ex Jim Sharpe Collection. Galenobismutite not fibrous, bismuthinite fibrous. 44x28x15mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pinkish-red friedelite with tiny yellowish-brown pyrosmalite and black ilvaite. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A small ore specimen comprising purple fluorite (fluorescent), chalcopyrite, and small amounts of galena and sphalerite. Specimen measures 22x20x20mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Purple fluorite crystals in a small cavity adjacent to smoky quartz. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless cubes with a white core of fluorite crystals that glow green under shortwave ultraviolet light. Judging by the colour, it is likely that the fluorescence is due to uranyl ions. A small amount of green pyromorphite, and brown oxidised siderite also present. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view...
This is the first time I have seen this colour on a Broken Hill specimen! Spectacular under shortwave ultraviolet light. The smithsonite glows yellow under longwave, pink under medium wave and violet red under shortwave. Sphalerite is visible orange under shortwave and brighter under medium wave. It also appears to...
A small cluster of apophyllite crystals. Specimen is 10mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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A brownish-green single fluorapatite crystal with a small amount of attached galena. Shown side lit. Crystal measures 22mm tall. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky apophyllite crystals on calcite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small sharp apophyllite crystals and balls of goethite on parallel-grown quartz crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small white tufts of ferrierite on colourless heulandite. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A spray of white crystals with a yellow core. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 68 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...
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.
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.
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.
Very pale yellow flattened crystals.
Deep red cuprite crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
