Golden, almost fibrous, calcite on thomsonite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny sharp calcite crystals that look like they may have replaced something else, something vaguely cubic. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pyrite on and in calcite on a bed of stellerite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Normally, the only calcite that you find at this locality is stuff that needs to be removed with acid to expose the crystals of other species. This is the only piece that I collected that looks like this, sharp pale yellow crystals of calcite. Look closely, and you can see...
Collected 5/2005. A single calcite crystal on lustrous siderite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hackly gold in a quartz vein. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Nicely protected yellow sprays in a quartz vugh. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Brownish modified tetrahedra frozen in matrix. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-green platy crystals of chalcophyllite. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for metaheinrichite. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images (white light), stack of 20 images (UV). Use the slider to see specimen under white light and longwave UV. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange coffin-shaped heulandite crystals coating the inside of a vesicle in basalt, from a locality first discovered in the 1960s. Also present is rosettes of green chlorite. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Bernie Day Collection. Ex Jack and Dawn Leach Collection. Interesting choice of mounting with this specimen. There is really only one decent crystal, the rest of the cinnabar being patches frozen in matrix, and that crystal is right down the bottom edge of the specimen. Width of view 5mm....
Light blue prismatic crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White sprays of ferrierite on tan calcite. Heulandite crystal not in photo. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Cubic crystal of boleite upon which plates of pseudoboleite have grown epitactically on the boleite cube faces. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange-red prismatic crocoite crystals on zoned green pyromorphite hexagonal prisms. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A scalenohedral crystal group without matrix. Bluish-white fluorescence under longwave UV. Specimen is 20mm high. Ex Val Hannah Collection.
Colourless scalenohedral crystals, some with a white coating. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded honey-coloured jellybean smithsonite crystals with bladed barite. Acquired from Philip Grounds, Bay Minerals, in 2012. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny smithsonite crystals on interpenetrant fluorite and bladed barite crystals, on quartz. Acquired from Philip Grounds, Bay Minerals, in 2012. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Smithsonite epimorphs after calcite. Acquired from Richard Bell. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
There appears to be a couple of generations of smithsonite. The first larger crystals, and the second much smaller crystals, visible around the edges of some of the larger ones. Acquired from Richard Bell. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Acquired from Mark Ascher 9/2007. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for monteponite. Tan smithsonite with yellow and brown monteponite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unusual rhombohedral hematite showing some rainbow colouration, with orange-brown siderite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Specimen acquired in the micromount room at the Tucson Show. Ex Bob Jenkins. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Harry Critchley. Width of view 21mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Slender white crystal group. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Curved white crystals. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded scalenohedral crystals. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Labelled simply Lyndhurst, but likely the Avondale Mine. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Transparent colourless prismatic calcite crystals with photo showing termination. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 20 images. Labelled as Moonta, but more likely Wallaroo. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Transparent colourless prismatic calcite crystals with chlorite(?) inclusion. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark brown cleavage. Width of view 25mm. Use the slider to see specimen front and back lit. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Highly fluorescent calcite crystals. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 50 images (white light) and 11 images (UV). Use the slider to see under white light and longwave UV. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Sceptred calcite crystal 17mm long. Ex Ian Graham. Ex Margaret Brown. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. When you zoom in you can see some interesting surface features.
Goethite balls on bladed calcite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ball of bladed crystals with orange fluorescence. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Goethite coating calcite crystals. There a few small calcite crystals of a different habit that have formed after the goethite. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rosettes of pale greenish-yellow platy crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1984. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cacoxenite as yellow-orange to brown hemispheres of radiating crystals, some as bow-ties. Very pale purple strengite. Colourless prisms of wavellite. Obtained by Joan in 1999 from Robyn Sharp. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 56 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Translucent-looking orange-brown hemispheres isolated from the more common yellow-orange acicular to fibrous ones. Acquired from John Haupt 4/06. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images.
Orange hemispheres on an iridescent goethite background. They are zoned with a darker core. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images.
Specimen measures 38x37x30mm and is shown under white light, longwave UV, medium wave UV and shortwave UV.
Pareidolia! I see the head of a Big Cat in this small slug of gold in quartz. Photo width 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange crystal group with no matrix. Width of group 2mm. Stack of 18 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless analcime crystals on heulandite. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny deep blue acicular buttgenbachite crystal sprays (centre of image) with green-blue gerhardtite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Analysis is required to distinguish between connellite (sulphate) and buttgenbachite (nitrate), which form a series. This specimen has not been analysed, but has a very...
Pink puffballs of erythrite in a cavity that was originally likely filled with sulphides. Acquired from Helmut Braith. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
This specimen comprises very dark purple crystals of erythrite, but the tips of the crystals flare out a little and show up as a lighter shade of pink. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Ex Brian Shelton Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Ralph E. Merrill Collection. Ex Peter Bridge. Tan powder in 44mm long glass vial.
A tiny needle of greenish rutile on an orange brookite on a larger dark anatase crystal. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny pink crystalline crust of erythrite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Zoned crystals of brookite in small cavities in quartz. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-green radiating groups of bladed brochantite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 73 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Nice bluish prismatic crystals of brochantite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish thin crystals of brochantite under a malachite ball, Inkerman Mine, Mount Isa Area, Queensland. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green bromargyrite and bromian chlorargyrite crystals on chalcophanite with minor grey smithsonite. Acquired from David Vince in 1992. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green cubic crystals of bromargyrite with bright native silver. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin bladed prismatic deep pink erythrite crystals with globular pale pink to lilac Co-bearing mansfieldite on black heterogenite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White brianyoungite with colourless-grey pyromorphite and stolzite, both of which fluoresce weakly. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Photo width 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Multi-terminated amethyst crystal, 70x50x40mm.
Yellow platy crystals. Ex Marco Poli.
Silver in matrix slice, 67x45x7mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A twinned chabazite crystal about 0.6mm across. Single shot photo through my microscope at 20x magnification and cropped. Testing out this item. A cheap way of getting relatively good photos through a microscope.
Extremely rich 8x7x2mm specimen containing abundant inclusions (red arrowed) of brown biraite-(Ce) – an extremely rare silico-carbonate of REE. Biraite contains microscopic inclusions of hydroxylbastnasite-(Ce) and intergrows with its more yellow macro grains well recognisable under magnification (yellow arrowed). Light matrix of the sample represented by pale-greenish, apatite-like strontianite-aragonite with...
Iridescent bornite in between layers of wollastonite. Ex David Vince. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images.
Acquired from Mathew Latham. What looks like bismuth crystals bottom left is the imprint of andradite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 18 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless to tan crusts on bat guano. Type Locality. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A mass of small lustrous and sharp azurite crystals. Specimen measures 21mm across. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bismuth “crystals” that have grown between molybdenite crystal aggregates. Specimen measures 23x20mm. Ex Jo Price Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Specimen is 24mm wide. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow pottsite and small areas of orange clinobisvanite. Specimen is 6mm wide. Type Locality for pottsite. Acquired from Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single crystal of bornite pseudomorphing pyrite. Width of crystal 15mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sceptred amethyst. Sceptre is 11mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Interesting textures. Specimen is 34mm wide. Ex Bart Cannon. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hematite in quartz giving it the lovely red colour. Specimen is 25mm tall.
Mined in 1820. Ex Captain Sara Collection. Ex Albert Chapman. Ex Brian Shelton. Measures 35x23x16mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange tabular wulfenite crystals on yellow pyromorphite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 120 images.
Tiny greenish-brown crystals of vauquelinite (right) with a larger brown crystal of mimetite (left). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
Orange tsumcorite coating carminite crystals with olive coloured beudantite-segnitite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
Pale blue platy crystals of spangolite coating twinned cerussite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images.
Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images.
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
Via Pinnacles dumps (not known if Kintore or Block 14). ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images.
Blue scorodite from Hemerdon Ball (now the Drakelands Mine). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images.
Very pale, almost colourless scalenohedra through to a nice mid-pink. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated colourless quartz crystal with iron staining. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 10 images.
Calcite and pyrite are two very common minerals, but true to form, Broken Hill has some surprises. This specimen is 40x27x25mm and a small amount of matrix is covered by colourless calcite crystals to about 5mm in length. The whole specimen glows pink under ultraviolet light, due to a layer...
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish brochantite on iridescent goethite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Grey hexagonal crystal of gordaite partially exposed. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images.
Green corkite-hinsdalite on pyromorphite. Note the colourless tips of the pyromorphite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharp olive green crystal of bromian chlorargyrite (embolite) on hexagonal crystals of chalcophanite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Bottom photo taken in 2006.
Red carminite with green beudantite-segnitite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 45 images (first photo). Width of view 5mm. Stack of 80 images (second photo). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
