4620 Elbaite, Dudley pegmatite, Penneshaw, Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Single terminated crystal 14.5mm long, green with a black cap. Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4618 Elbaite, Dudley pegmatite, Penneshaw, Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Single 15mm long terminated crystal, mostly green then a small blue section and a black cap. Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1320 Elbaite, Giles Elbaite pegmatite, Spargoville, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
A gemmy green elbaite crystal that has been broken and later healed, but offset. Ex Jo Price Collection. Crystal is 8.5mm tall. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AA5 M3882 Elbaite, Cattlin Creek Pegmatite, Ravensthorpe, Western Australia
Opaque pink “rubellite” crystals with pale green cores frozen in matrix. Specimen is 30mm wide. Ex Bernie Day Collection #M3882. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW101 1963 Elbaite, Cattlin Creek pegmatite, Ravensthorpe, Western Australia
Opaque bluish-green crystals with pink cores. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection #1963. Width of specimen is 48mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4296 Ecandrewsite, Melbourne Rockwell Mine, Little Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
ncat ANK MSH128 Sphalerite, Albite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
A sharp metallic black tetrahedral sphalerite crystal on white albite. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 109 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH126 Rhodochrosite, Aegirine, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Deep sharp red-brown rhombohedral crystals, one perched on aegirine crystal. There are also colourless reticulated crystals below right of centre. Maybe albite? One small area on top of rhodochrosite (not in photo) fluoresces orange. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of...
ncat ANK MSH87 Franconite, Actinolite, Zircon, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Franconite (white spheres), actinolite (green sprays) and brown crystals of zircon(?) that fluoresce orange. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 59 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH93 Lorenzenite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Pinkish acicular crystals of lorenzenite. There are a couple of unknowns too, the pale greenish prismatic crystal and the brown material upper left (it fluoresces orange). Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for...
ncat ANK MSH147 Calcioburbankite, Petersenite-(Ce), Siderite, Hilairite(?), Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
As with many MSH specimens, you don’t always know what you’ve got! White to tan calcioburbankite on hexagonal prismatic petersenite-(Ce). Many of the brown crystals, the lighter ones, are siderite, but some, the darker brown ones, fluoresce orange, maybe hilairite? There are tiny thin plates of an unidentified mineral that...
ncat ANK MSH65 Dawsonite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Colourless striated prisms. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Pete Richards. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 68 images. Blue sodalite (part of matrix) fluoresces a strong orange. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1191 Kanemite, La saline d’Andjia, Kanem Region (Khanem), Chad
Tiny piece in a capsule. Type Locality.
ncat RB Gold, Ecuador
Labelled simply “Plateau Mining Co., Ecuador”, this specimen came from a collection acquired by Richard Bell. Obviously, Plateau Mining Co. isn’t a locality, but a company, so the starting point is simply Ecuador. After a bit of searching, I came across a mining professional, Byron Granda, who at one time...
ncat ANK MSH44 Eudialyte, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Rootbeer brown crystal. It is labelled as eudialyte but it is not known if it has been analysed. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich, collected May 2007. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH137 Neighborite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Small cluster of brown cubes. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH71 Pectolite, Phlogopite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Phlogopite pseudohexagonal plates on prismatic colourless pectolite. Pectolite crystals have zoned fluorescence, pink with blue caps. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images. Comparison image width of view 11.5mm. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version. For...
ncat ANK MSH81 Burbankite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Yellow “reverse sceptre” burbankite. Second photo ilmenite and burbankite. Calcite also present on specimen. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 18 images (burbankite). Stack of 36 images (ilmenite). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
1693 Elbaite, Greenbushes Mine, Greenbushes, Western Australia
Prismatic green crystals frozen in quartz matrix. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH123 Epididymite, Franconite, Analcime, Muscovite, Pyrite, Albite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Colourless twinned epididymite with cream hemispheres of franconite(?), with tiny silver pseudohexagonal muscovite, and tiny pyrite crystals, minor albite, all on analcime. There is also a prismatic hexagonal crystal of epididymite pointing down to the bottom left just below the yellow arrow. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean...
ncat ANK MSH110 Elpidite, Gaidonnayite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Elpidite greenish and bright fluorescent green under longwave UV, gaidonnayite (not in photo) clear. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 57 images (white light) and only 9 images (UV). Use the slider on the photo below to compare the white...
ncat ANK MSH107 Serandite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Prismatic pale pink crystals. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 134 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH103 Vinogradovite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Thin tan blades. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH100 Monteregianite-(Y), Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Sprays of thin grey prismatic crystals. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 95 images. Most of the matrix fluoresces orange, probably nepheline. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH100 Hilairite, Gaidonnayite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Type Locality for hilairite. Brown hilairite with colourless/grey twinned gaidonnayite. Hilairite fluoresce green under longwave UV, but gaidonnayite doesn’t appear to respond. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 114 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH1 Ferrokentbrooksite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Small orange crystals. Originally labelled as kentbrooksite, but probably ferrokentbrooksite and most likely collected before that mineral was described as a new species. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean P Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 42 images. Type Locality. Click on the image below for a...
5546 Parauranophane, Rössing Uranium Mine, Arandis, Swakopmund District, Erongo Region, Namibia
Yellow prismatic crystals. Previously known as uranophane-β, now parauranophane. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 165 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2548 Senandorite, Quatrandorite, San José Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro, Bolivia
Labelled simply as andorite. Donnay and Donnay (1954) stated that nearly all andorite specimens from Oruro are syntaxic intergrowths of two species that they named andorite IV and andorite VI. These have now been redefined as quatrandorite and senandorite respectively. This specimen is therefore likely an intergrowth of the two...
ncat WD217 Nagashimalite, Mogurazawa mine, Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
One tiny micro in rhodonite. Type Locality.
ncat WD217 Kannanite, Mt Kannan, Ouzu City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Tiny thin beige veins in matrix. Type Locality.
ncat WD217 Baghdadite, Fuka mine, Fuka, Bitchū, Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Two small grains in matrix.
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...
2170 Mimetite, Duftite, Mount Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory
Yellow hexagonal mimetite roses on green duftite. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 142 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0342 Duftite, Mount Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory
One of the early specimens that was labelled Mount Evelyn to disguise where it actually came from. Olive-green to greenish-black crystals. Width of 11.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat GLEE Duftite, Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Vanadium-rich duftite. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 106 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD120 Dufrénite, Leucophosphite, Morinite, Cyrilovite, Tom’s Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia
Dark greenish black dufrénite with almost colourless leucophosphite. Also on specimen but not in photo, morinite and cyrilovite. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 95 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4350 JL3913 Dufrénite, Strengite, Klemms Quarry, Moculta, South Australia
Olive green crust of tiny crystals of dufrénite, with pinkish-white strengite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 2001. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RN Dufrénite, Cyrilovite, Iron Duchess, Middleback Range, South Australia
Dark greenish-blue dufrenite with greenish-yellow to brown cyrilovite. Ex Barry Schubert. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5154 JL1575 Dufrénite, Hicks Quarry, Gladstone, South Australia
Very dark green crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 145 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat TF Eosphorite, Saléeite, Dufrénite, Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria
Bluish-green dufrénite with brown eosphorite and highly fluorescent saléeite. Ex Pat Sutton. Dufrénite not listed in Mindat, but I assume Pat analysed. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 76 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat BDMAR01 M1416 Dufrénite, Milo Mine, 30km west of Cloncurry, Queensland
Dark bluish-green zoned hemispheres. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
8080 Dravite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
Brown prismatic crystals. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat XA Dravite, Henry’s Hill Wolfram Mine, near Percydale, Victoria
Prismatic translucent brown tourmaline crystal (dravite?) showing termination (right hand side), embedded in massive vein quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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 TA4 Domerockite, Dome Rock, Olary Province, South Australia
Tiny blue crystals of domerock (eg: centre of image) with green balls of conichalcite (eg two spheres top right of photo) and white kaolinite. Type Locality. Width of view 2.88mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VH510 Domerockite, Dome Rock Mine, Olary Province, South Australia
Pale blue tiny crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 62 images.
1609 Aluminium, Bulla Island (Bulli Island; Ostrov Bulla; Khara-Zire), Caspian Sea, Qobustan District (Gobustan; Kobustan), Azerbaiyán
Fragments in a small glass vial. Width of view 2.88mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1178 Stolzite, Quartz, Alunite Supergroup, Les Montmins Mine (Ste Barbe vein), Echassieres, Ebreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France
Brown aggregate of prismatic stolzite crystals with yellow plumbogummite(?), transparent crystals and opaque aggregates, in quartz in a cavity left by galena(?). Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1122 Gartrellite, Carminite, Bariopharmacosiderite, Alunite Supergroup, Quartz, Les Montmins Mine (Ste Barbe vein), Echassieres, Ebreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France
Green crystals of gartrellite on carminite in one small vugh, and by itself in another (photo). Orange-brown cube of pharmacosiderite with an Alunite Supergroup mineral in another. Width of view 2.88mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1141 Bariopharmacosiderite, Goethite, Quartz, Les Montmins Mine (Ste Barbe vein), Echassieres, Ebreuil, Allier, Auvergne, France
Green cubes of bariopharmacosiderite in a vugh in quartz that is lined with brown goethite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat M166 2RG Dolomite, Teutonic Bore Mine, Ten Mile Outcamp, Leonora Shire, Western Australia
Aggregates of cream-coloured dolomite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of specimen 28mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD3 Dolomite, Teutonic Bore Mine, Ten Mile Outcamp, Leonora Shire, Western Australia
Colourless stepped rhombs. Note that these crystals are similar to photos of smithsonite from this locality on Mindat, except for the colour (the smithsonite specimens have a green tint). Width of view 5mm. Stack of 71 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.
1241 Dolomite, Lady Shenton Mine, Menzies, Western Australia
Colourless zoned rhombs. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 26 images Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3546 Dolomite, Pseudobrookite, Mount Shadwell, Mortlake, Moyne Shire, Victoria
A tiny dolomite crystal perched on the end of a pseudobrookite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW303 Malachite, Calcite, Dolomite, Quartz, Mutooroo Copper Mine, Mutooroo Homestead, Mingary, Olary Province, South Australia
A lot going on in a small space here. A layer of calcite is coated by quartz, then yellow spheres of dolomite. On top of this sits a malachite after cuprite crystal aggregate, and then a sprinkling of tiny calcite crystals on the dolomite and malachite. Width of view 11.5mm....
ncat wd203 Dolomite, Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
White curved rhombs of dolomite on matrix. Labelled EZ Mine. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AA2 Dolomite, South of Poolalalie Hill, Cleve, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Multiple generations of dolomite. First chocolate-coloured rhombohedra, followed by a much paler (yellow-coated) layer over the same crystals (possibly just a change in chemical composition), with a final white opaque crust here and there. Also, some managnese dendrites bottom right of the photo. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of...
ncat AA2 Dolomite, Crosby’s Farm, Cleve, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Multiple generations of dolomite. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU002 Dolomite, Iron Duke Quarry, Whyalla, South Australia
White rhombohedra. Specimen is 60mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1080 Dolomite, Pyrite, Olympic Dam, Roxby Downs, South Australia
Rhombohedral dolomite with oxidised pyrite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2143 Malachite, Dolomite, Magpie Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland
Green prismatic malachite crystals on iron-stained/coated dolomite rhombs. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat TQ Dolomite, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory
Labelled “Rum Jungle Copper Mine”. Drill core segment 48mm in diameter from the 1960s. Dolomite crystals in a cavity. The Coomalie dolomite/magnesite dolostone is Precambrian and includes vuggy recrystallised zones (from metamorphic recrystallisation), and formed from stromatolites. It underlies some of the Rum Jungle mines. Click on the image below...
ncat JP3342 Djurleite, Calcite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Striated twinned djurleite crystals with calcite. The calcite fluoresces a deep pinkish-red. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4357 JL0105 Djurleite, Quartz, Mt. Gunson, South Australia
Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1983 at the Adelaide Mineralogical Seminar. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU009 Roxbyite, Djurleite, Olympic Dam, Roxby Downs, South Australia
Roxbyite inclusions in massive djurleite. 22x11x6mm. Type Locality for roxbyite. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2012 Diopside, Yinnietharra Station, Gascoyne, Western Australia
One of three loose crystals of green diopside, this is the smallest at 6mm tall. The largest is 16mm tall. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4356 JL0104 Digenite, Mt. Gunson, South Australia
Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1983 at the Adelaide Mineralogical Seminar. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5151 Rhodonite, Hübnerite, Akatore Creek, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
Akatoreite locality. Ex Geoff Thomas Collection. Specimen is 70x57x28mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7142 JL 2687 Akatoreite, Rhodonite, Pyrolusite, Akatore Creek, Clutha District, Otago Region, South Island, New Zealand
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Museum Victoria, collected by Neville Cook in 1983. 18mm wide. Labelled as Mount Titiroa but there is doubt about the locality, especially with brown akatoreite present. More likely Akatore Creek. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OS007 Rhodonite, Akatore Creek, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
Slab 116mm wide. Shown in normal light and backlit. Unidentified black manganese mineral, possibly pyrolusite. Backlit photo shows a band of translucent cherty material. Click on the images below for higher resolution versions.
ncat TM Cavansite, Okenite, Chabazite-Ca, Aranga Quarry, Aranga, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Blue ball of cavansite with white balls of okenite on colourless chabazite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RK Uvite, Svanbergite, Pomba Pit, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil
Green uvite with minor svanbergite. Width of specimen 95mm.
2208 Pyrope, Sittampundi complex, Tamil Nadu, India
One of a dozen rounded garnets. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 16 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2337 Desautelsite, Artinite pit, Picacho Peak, New Idria Mining District, San Benito Co., California, USA
Orange crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Desautelsite is named after Paul Desautels (1920-1991), well-known mineral micromounter and Curator of Gems and Minerals in the Department of Mineral Sciences of the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, DC. Click on the image below...
2897 Copper, Moonta Mine, Moonta, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Arborescent copper crystal group 16mm wide.
2894 Aldridgeite, Niedermayrite, Smithsonite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat RD Boulangerite, Fluorite, Magnesite, Dickite, Slaughteryard Face, Mount Bischoff, Waratah, Tasmania
Dickite as tiny white tabular crystals on boulangerite and coating fluorite, with tan magnesite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3002 “Selwynite”, Chromian Muscovite, Diaspore, Coppermine Lane, Heathcote, Victoria
Green “Selwynite”, a rock. Chromian muscovite (fuchsite) mixed with diaspore with muscovite veins. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7205 JL3709 Dickite, Atacamite, Mount Gunson Copper mines, Pernatty Lagoon, Stuart Shelf, South Australia
White dickite with dark green atacamite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 90 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Roger Colling Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1999. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3016 Dickite, Quartz, Siderite, Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania
White dickite (analysed) with tan siderite and colourless quartz. Specimen is 56mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2822 Stolzite, Epidote, Andradite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
Blocky zoned crystals from the original find of stolzite at Kara. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images.
ncat VH553 Diamond, Macquarie River, Wellington, New South Wales
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.
ncat WD101 Davidite-(La), Billaroo, South Australia
Four crude crystals, largest 16mm wide. Ex Trevor Dart. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat EA2 Davidite-(La), Kajabbi, Cloncurry, Queensland
Ex Laurie Lawrence Collection. Specimen is about 35mm across. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5171 JL1590 Davidite-(La), Crockers Well, South Australia
Fairly sharp crystal 10mm across. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Purchased by Joan from Peter Anderson for $5 in 1995. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat TH Danielsite, Coppin Pool, Tom Price, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia
Sawn specimen. Grey fine-grained material material with galena and intergrown with other sulphides. Ex Rob Sielecki. Type Locality. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7056 JL2616 Clinozoisite, Danburite, Fluorite, Gravel Hill quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Colourless radiating prismatic crystals of danburite with green clinozoisite. Minor purple fluorite visible too. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1997. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3367 Vesuvianite, Danburite, Actinolite, Gravel Hill quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Opaque white radiating crystals with dark green prismatic actinolite and light green vesuvianite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2040 Danburite, Gravel Hill quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Tiny prismatic grey crystals (arrowed) in a small vugh. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.