0074 Gold, Fluorite, Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Hackly silver-rich gold in fluorite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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0073 Gold, Fluorite, Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Hackly silver-rich gold in mostly grey fluorite with a hint of purple. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0053 Fluorite, Pyrite, Siderite, Renison Bell Mine, North Dundas, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Colourless fluorite cubes that fluoresce blue under longwave ultraviolet, partially coated with siderite. Tiny pyrite crystals also present. Width of view 11.5mm. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
ncat EA6 Magnesite, Fluorite, Slaughteryard face, Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Given the name “Lost City of Bischoff” when I first found it, this is one side of a ferroan magnesite crystal that had grown up against stepped fluorite that is no longer there. The core of this specimen is a fairly thick seam of fluorite that fluoresces strongly. Click on...
ncat EA6 Fluorapatite, Muscovite, Fluorite, Aberfoyle Mine, Rossarden mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania
A lot happening on this specimen. In the white light photo, you can see tabular pale blue hexagonal fluorapatite crystals with muscovite mica, and brown areas appear to be goethite coating cassiterite. In the longwave UV photo, the apatite crystals are pink zoned with a hint of orange. There is...
20120 Gold, Savage River Mines, Corinna-Savage River district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Small speck of gold in iron ore. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3241 OW206 Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Phillipsite, West Ridgley Quarry, Ridgley, Burnie city, Tasmania
Slightly yellowish tabular crystals of hydroxyapophyllite-(K) on colourless phillipsite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1382 Cassiterite, Luinaite, Quartz, Siderite, Actinolite, Fluorite, Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania
Lustrous cassiterite crystals and luinaite on and in quartz. Tiny rosettes of tan siderite on the cassiterite. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RC Ferroaluminoceladonite, Sellaite, Beryl, Slaughteryard face, Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Creamy white pearly ferroaluminoceladonite with blue beryl and grey sellaite on a skeletal quartz matrix. Width of view 32mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2457 Ferro-actinolite, Martins Point, Cygnet district, Huon-Channel region, Huon Valley municipality, Tasmania
Tiny prismatic sprays of dark green-black crystals. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1735 Eudialyte Group, Sanidine, and Andradite, Syenite Dyke, Langdons point, Cygnet, Huon Valley Municipality, Tasmania
Pink grains of eudialyte or manganoeudialyte with/in andradite, and phenocrysts of sanidine in a green groundmass. Other species likely present but would need analysis to confirm. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.