Tiny orange-brown jarosite crystals on botryoidal iridescent goethite. Ex John Carey. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny brown crystals of jarosite with bluish-green gahnite, and unknown pale yellow, in quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Reddish brown aggregates. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange crystals of jahnsite with black natrodufrenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous jacobsite modified octahedrons. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Jacobsite crystals on typical hematite matrix. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black modified octahedral crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Jacobsite grains with mixed sulphides. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. 45mm wide.
Black massive ixiolite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Isoclasite intermixed with fluorapatite. Ex Gunnar Farber. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Christmas Island phosphate minerals reference.
Black opaque and brown resinous mineral with possible samarskite, and a small amount of fluorescent autunite? A titanite crystal is embedded in the matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A piece of the Henbury meteorite measuring 28x25x18mm.
Fibrous yellow sprays. Also present is a bright yellow fluorescent mineral, possibly autunite. Ex Frank Radke. Ex Sue Koepke collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Osmiridium grains. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded grains of osmiridium with sharp black crystals of chromite collected by Rusty Morley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as osmiridium (now determined to be iridium, as silver grains with hexagonal plates (which are most likely osmium)). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 24 images.
Lamellar vein in lizardite with metallic pentlandite and purple woodallite blebs. Ex Ben Grguric. Specimen measures 55x47x30mm.
Purple woodallite. A vein of iowaite altering to pale pyroaurite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images.
Yellow-green bromium chlorargyrite (“embolite”) on white “snail trail” iodargyrite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale-coloured crystals, some clearly showing hexagonal habit. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single 6mm long pinkish-brown transparent crystal without matrix. Interesting “inclusions”. Towards the bottom are things that look a bit like hexagonal wire fencing that we have used in the past around vegetable gardens an the like, known as chicken wire. These appear to be partly at and partly near...
Pale yellow-green autunite crystals (that fluoresce strongly) with cores of blue-green torbernite. The autunite has probably grown epitaxially on the torbernite. Ex Rod Martin. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for lauite which is in another vugh. Cacoxenite on probably metatorbernite. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Opaque pale green metatorbernite with tiny yellow meta-autunite crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Opaque dull light green crystals, undoubtedly metatorbernite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green platy crystals, no matrix. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Highly fluoresent yellow inclusions of hokkaidoite in opal that fluoresces pink and and purplish blue. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki Collection. Type Locality. Specimen measures 17mm. Photo under longwave UV.
Sliced, polished sample, showing pale blue vein of itoigawaite in jadeite matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Type Locality. Width of specimen 40mm.
Pale crystalline mass in matrix. Ex Chet Lemanski Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images.
Small, crude, subhedral crystal aggregate of hydrobiotite without matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Older material, purchased by Andrew from Excalibur Mineral Company in 1986. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Wairakite is one of the rarer zeolite species. It’s typically found around hot springs and forms white dodecahedral crystals similar to analcime. In this case, the white wairakite is completely replacing the elongated, stick-like crystals of another zeolite, laumontite. 35x28x12mm. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images.
Green platy crystals of metatorbernite, yellow phurcalite (fluorescent), colourless crystals (some as sceptres), and a colourless platy crystal (left side of photo and in closeup). The latter is a similar habit to torbernite, but there is no hint of green! Matrix is composed mostly of andradite garnet(?). Width of view...
Three colours of celestite. Blue-grey main crystals with white fibrous-like outer surface, and small colourless crystals attached. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless crystals of celestite. Predates Stoneco (1995) so just “White Rock Quarry”. Acquired from Ian Graham in 1993. Collected by an unknown person some time before that. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Below: Original labels.
Probably a cleavage piece of kernite. The specimen measures 44x18x5mm.
A pale brownish transparent crystal of kurnakovite with a white surface alteration to tincalconite? Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1999 from Peter Elliott. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless hemimorphite crystals with scalenohedral smithsonite possibly coloured by the underlying matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Obtained by Joan in 2000 from Harry Critchley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White silky “Cat’s Eye” terminations on vesuvianite crystals that are zoned yellowish-greenish, root-beer brown, and even a purplish-black. Specimen measures 28x15x14mm. Ex Brian Kosnar. Ex Rob Lavinski. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for both cuspidine and vesuvianite. Dark to olive green vesuvianite with tan cuspidine (not in photo). Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1997 as part of a Swiss collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Cyprine was originally defined as a blue variety of vesuvianite. However, cyprine is now a recognised distinct species. Without analysis, a firm distinction can’t be made. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images.
Dark brown crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Location in Japanese 長野県南佐久郡川上村甲武信鈜山 Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thick white tabular hexagonal crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silky erionite growing epitaxially on levyne. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless hexagonal tabular plates of levyne on rounded crystalline aggregates of thomsonite (eg: bottom of photo) and chabazite (eg: top of photo). Also present is what looks like a tiny analcime crystal on one of the levyne faces. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images....
Greenish-yellow crystal and crust on quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Tiny metallic needles. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless hexagonal crystals, as well as yellow iron-stained ones. White fibrous thomsonite, and tiny analcime crystals. Ex Peter Hall. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki. Colourless width of view 6mm, and stack of 30 images. Yellow width of view 6mm, and stack of 85 images. Click on the images below for a higher...
A spherical colourless fluorite that fluoresces purple-blue under longwave UV. Orange fluorescence is likely sodalite. Ex Münchener Micromounters. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images (UV) and 60 images (white light). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version. Below: Under white light. I didn’t notice the...
Blue needles of schmiederite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue needles are schmiederite, the tabular blue crystals are chenite. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenish-grey zircons with black inclusions and tiny colourless crystals (sanidine?) sprinkled on terminations, and as most of the matrix. The sanidine fluoresces pink under shortwave UV. Associated with black “biotite” and orange fluorescing sodalite under longwave UV. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images (white light), 9 images (LWUV)....
Blue chalcomenite with yellow balls of allophane on metallic krut’aite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan as part of a Swiss collection in 1997. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for alfredopetrovite. White balls with a greenish-grey tint of alfredopetrovite, minor pink Co-bearing ahlfeldite, minor light blue chalcomenite(?), minor silver penroseite, white patches of felsőbányaite, and thin colourless blades and colourless blocky crystals of unidentified species. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image...
Type Locality. Small crystalline specimen without matrix. Ex Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Width 2.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Grains of black cadmoselite with orange-brown sphalerite, and silvery metallic clausthalite? Width of view 6mm. Stack of 36 images. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic bright silver crystals from the Schöller dump. From Mindat “A coal mine which started in 1899 as the Schoeller mine. From 1946, it was named Zdeněk Nejedlý Mine, from 1951 Nejedlý I Mine. After 1990 again renamed Kladno Mine in Libušín”. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 44 images....
Blocky colourless crystals with rounded aggregates of thomsonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Richard Bell. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
A lot going on with this specimen. Silver thin ilmenite plates formed first and were then coated with phillipsite-Na and chabazite-Na crystals. You can see the ilmenite where there are broken areas. Then later, a few thomsonite puffballs have formed. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of...
Glossy black pieces of ilmenite collected by Judy Rowe from beach sands on the shore of Lake Bullenmerri. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Partially clay encrusted ilmenite with augite and fluorescent calcite. There is a bunch of apatite needles on the top right corner of the ilmenite. Ex Margaret Brown. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Four pieces. Photo shows ilmenite on augite. Also present andesine and hedenbergite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images.
A sharp ilmenite crystal in a cavity lined with sanidine crystals. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 14 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small green titanite with darker green actinolite and black ilmenite of orange stilbite-Ca. Specimen measures 39x30x14mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thick platy crystals of ilmenite with interesting surface features, and a couple of quartz crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded zircons, mostly orange, but also pale pink, with black ilmenite, and a few colourless quartz crystals, from sands at Byron Bay. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1968. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black mass of crystalline material embedded in matrix. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A red prismatic pseudobrookite embedded in chabazite. Ex Margaret Graham. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black magnetite octahedra, some with traces of chlorite on their faces. Some magnetite crystals are completely encased in chlorite. Blocky orthoclase crystals form part of the cavity lining. Brown sheaf or club-shaped siderite, yellow hexagonal chabazite-Na, and needles of apatite coated with chlorite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70...
Two pieces. Colourless twinned phillipsite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rhombohedral siderite (after calcite?), chabazite-Na (herschelite), and a needle of apatite with orange chlorite grown on it (in front of siderite). Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Octahedral magnetite crystals with yellowish chabazite and dark brown siderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White zoned barite with dark brown siderite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 31 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin white bladed stacked crystals. Ex Trevor Hosking, collected in 1995. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Chabazite-Na and an apatite needle in a vugh in andesite. An opalescent effect is produced by the larger crystal lying flat in the vugh with only one face exposed. The surface has a slightly matt finish. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for...
Dark brown spherical siderite with colourless orthoclase lining the vugh. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as apatite but I think the long prismatic crystal is gypsum. The termination is wrong for apatite. There is greenish-brown chlorite and a brown siderite with a hollow core, left hand side of the vugh. Colourless gypsum crystals are also in the top right hand side of the vugh....
Pale yellow hexagonal chabazite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. The second photo was taken by Judy Rowe and uploaded to Mindat in 2009. It would have been a single shot, not stacked. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow and colourless hexagonal chabazite crystals with minor colourless orthoclase and brown siderite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Three colourless analcime crystals isolated the rest, with smaller rounded brown siderites, and one chabazite crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A colourless gypsum crystal with white hexagonal chabazite. Unsure what the hollowed out crystal is/was (bottom left of photo). The yellow needles are possibly iron-stained or replaced apatite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unidentified white mineral (possibly thomsonite?) in analcime. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Elongated green platy crystals. Ex Andrew Tuma. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fine acicular connellite with platy green botallackite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A jumble of intense red mostly terminated crocoite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A radiating cluster of purplish-red erythrite crystals. Collected in 1987. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless monoclinic crystals of claudetite with pale yellow sulphur crystals in slag. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Spheres of yellow to orange acicular karibibite crystals with small colourless to green scorodite crystals in gossan matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single well-formed arsenopyrite crystal on matrix. Specimen measures 55x30x25mm.
Radial aggregates of metallic grey arsenolamprite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A crystalline mass of native arsenic showing some individual trigonal crystals. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Platy green crystals. Type Locality. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Ex Mike Gough. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless rounded aggregate of hydroxylapatite with thin sword-shaped colourless scholzite crystals, and unidentified green mineral (plimerite?). Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless hexagonal prisms and bowties of hydroxylapatite. Monoclinic tiny thin platy crystals of colourless montgomeryite (eg: top right of photo). The larger colourless crystals are possibly collinsite. White balls of crandallite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a...
Blocky colourless crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single white crystal of hydroxyapophyllite, with a few colourless needles of natrolite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless to white hydromagnesite crystals on serpentine. Specimen measures 90x55x45mm. Close up photo width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
A ball of crystals of hydromagnesite with white pearly dypingite. Specimen Measures 60x40x15mm. Closeup photo width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny colourless but mostly iron-stained crystals on a goethite matrix. Ex Vince Peisley. Identified for Vince by Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue fibrous nakauriite. This species forms as vivid fibrous blue crystals on/in brucite-bearing serpentine. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow crystals in a vugh in ferberite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
