ncat Chalcophanite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
Hexagonal silver crystals with other manganese phases. 2022 mining. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tasmania
ncat Crocoite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
2022 production. Crystals 22mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat Crocoite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
2022 production. Longest crystal is 30mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2320 Epistilbite, Tabors Road, Margate, Tasmania
Non-descript looking material. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1507 Pyrite, Epidote, Andradite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
A green epidote crystal impaled on pyrite, all on dark brown andradite garnet. Presumably, the epidote interrupted the growth of the pyrite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7332 JL3714 Dypingite, Zaratite, Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
White botryoidal spheres, some coloured green by nickel. Ex Joan Lamond Collection, Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1989 from John Haupt. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD4 Dundasite, Crocoite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
White acicular clusters of dundasite with minor red crocoite. This photo clearly shows the challenge of getting clean specimens from the gossans of the mines in the area! Type Locality for dundasite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD216 Dundasite, Crocoite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
Clusters of snow-white crystals on prismatic orange crocoite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4199 Dypingite, Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania
Pale green to white balls of dypingite in serpentine. Ex Jack Leach Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP456 Dundasite, Crocoite, Kapi Mine, North Dundas, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Creamy balls of dundasite with bright white tips to the crystals, and a few tiny crocoite crystals. Labelled as Red Lead Mine, this is clearly a Kapi Mine specimen. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 91 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
4002 Ferrimolybdite, Quartz, Dravite, Bischoff Extended (West Bischoff; Wheal Bischoff), Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Collected 2/2005. Brown prismatic tourmaline crystals, visually identified by Ralph Bottrill as dravite at the time of collecting, but not analysed to my knowledge. Probably better described as dravite-schorl series. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 49 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD106 Pyrite, Quartz, Dolomite, Mount Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania
Colourless quartz with yellow dolomite and minor pyrite. Specimen measures 28x33x10mm.