A nice spray of thin colourless aragonite blades. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Second photo shows complex twinned chabazite with the aragonite in the background. Dark green hemispheres are saponite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution...
A mass of lime green hexagonal pyromorphite crystals from the MMM South Mine operations. Width of view is 9.5mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. (Top photo taken with my Canon 750D (that is about 17Mp) with microscope lens attachment compared with...
Fluorapophyllite (probably fluorapophyllite-(K)) crystal showing typical cleavage planes. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unusual hoppered(?) crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Group of sharp anglesite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Elongated colourless crystals of anglesite, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Collected on the dumps at the Pinnacles Mine. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A lovely green anglesite from the 1998 discovery in the Block 14 open cut. Previously in the Milton Lavers Collection. Photo width 3.5mm. Stack of 33 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Tin-white patches, some crystalline, of native antimony. Acquired from Diederik Visser. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Antimony from Lucknow is recorded in a Mining article in the Sydney Mail newspaper of 31 May, 1890. Interestingly, correspondence with William Frederick Petterd, the father of mineralogy in Tasmania, is...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Type Locality for norrishite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1997 from Jack Leach.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 63 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $2.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Probably (but to be confirmed) now the Hanson Quarry, Shell Cove, Shellharbour, New South Wales. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Noel Kennon in 2002.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show in 1998. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Five single crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria.
Sharp blue-green micro crystals of hoganite on cerussite and malachite. Colour is more green than shown in the photos. Width of view 3.5mm. Exact source of specimen is not known. The original occurrence was only a few specimens, and probably not this rich. It could be “manufactured” but could also...
Green prismatic crystals. Width of specimen 11mm.
One of my favourite Broken Hill smithsonite specimens. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 100 images.
Featured on the cover of the Australian Journal of Mineralogy Volume 21 Number 1, 2020. If you were to ask my granddaughter Gracie what my favourite colour is, she would tell you blue! And what can be more blue than a Broken Hill linarite. This specimen has sprays of intense...
Tiny triangular orange bastnäsite-(Ce) crystals on black coronadite. There are three vughs with at least a dozen bastnäsite-(Ce) crystals in each. Mimetite is mostly yellow prismatic crystals with one grey crystal. Width 3mm. Stack of 70 images.
Yellow butterfly of mimetite with goethite casts after cerussite. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
Intense blue linarite crystals. Width 8mm. Stack of 51 images.
Collected on the Pinnacles Dumps. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 54 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Lighter green libethenite with almost black bladed plimerite. Natrodufrenite listed on label but I am not able to pick it. There are also other minerals, including possible calcian pyromorphite as white prismatic crystals, hoppered green pyromorphite, and yellow pyromorphite. Width 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Group of deep purple fluorite cubes with octahedral faces, with white calcite that fluoresces red. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Val Hannah Collection.
Greenish-brown short to long prismatic stolzite crystals with brown pyromorphite. Width 9mm. Stack of 100 images. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Pyromorphite is fluorescent pale orange, but also fluorescing are patches of sphalerite in the matrix (bright orange) and small anglesite crystals (bright yellow).
Acicular needles of coronadite with a few hexagonal green pyromorphite crystals and white fibrous kaolinite(?). Width 9mm. Stack of 30, 42 and 62 photos. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Powellite is uncommon in Australia, particular as distinct crystals. Mindat has only one photo, a powellite with ulrichite and fluorapatite from Lake Boga. This specimen has excellent crystals. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 180 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Colourless natrolite needles with a pink base, possibly caused by hematite, on phacolitic chabazite crystals (probably chabazite-Na). Width 9mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Single crystal with neat phantoms. Video best viewed full screen.
Predominantly blue and green thin opal seams.
K & M Brown Collection Video best viewed full screen.
Pink rhodochrosite with small white crystals (kutnohorite?). These white crystals are also included in the quartz. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Grey complex dolomite crystals with a single brownish cerussite crystal from the Kintore open cut, Broken Hill. In addition, there are tufts of an unknown white mineral. Candidates could be sepiolite (not recorded at Broken Hill) or palygorskite (recorded, but as a different habit, and rare). Maybe something else. It...
A single blocky hydroxyapophyllite-(K) crystal on a bed of prismatic colourless natrolite crystals. Width of view 10mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Chas. W. Velte Jnr.
 A well-formed molybdenite crystal 21mm across on quartz.
Ex Milton Lavers collection. Exhibited at the Munich Show in 2008. Measures 65x65x35mm.
Herkimer-like quartz crystals on matrix. Ex Milton Lavers Collection No. C38.
Pale green octahedral fluorite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from John Haupt who collected it in 1971.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Graham Lee.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee.
Acquired in 2001 by Joan Lamond from George Lysiuk (collected in 1986).
Analysed material, Helmut Braith
Ex Alf Bond. Ex John Lewis Collection. Probably Inverell as opposed to Kingsgate.,
Ex John Lewis collection.,
Lustrous dark blue crystals coat one face. Some contacts(?).
Platy zoned thin hexagonal rhodocrosite crystals with a dusting of pyrite, plus pyrite on the matrix. Ex Milton Lavers Collection #962. Includes label from when the specimen was on display at the Munich Mineral Show in 2008. Purchased at Ausrox and Crystal Classics Milton Lavers Collection sale day.
Orange-yellow platey crystals. From the NBHC Mine.
From a rare species collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
