A mass of silver needles of franckeite with black sphalerite, purple fluorite, tan magnesite, and not in photo, pyrite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A mass of silver needles of franckeite with a little purple fluorite and tan magnesite. Specimen measures 55x40x20mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown to black tourmaline crystals, probably schorl or fluor-schorl, but could also be foitite based on recent analyses of tourmalines from this area. Specimen measures 22x18x17mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Massive white peisleyite finely intergrown on a μm scale with fluorwavellite. SEM shows that ‘massive peisleyite’ consists of zones of intergrown peisleyite crystals (<3 μm in size) forming mats intermixed with zones of massive ‘wavellite’ (now considered fluorwavellite) with no distinct crystal faces. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view...
Bright green crystalline aggregates of this rare selenium mineral. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow material labelled as francevillite or carnotite, on davidite-(La). It is most likely carnotite but would need analysis to confirm. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White foshagite with yellow-green vesuvianite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Specimen measures 12x8x5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Cluster of crude black crystals. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Prismatic crystals of imiterite on dolomite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny red thin platy crystals of fettelite, a rare mercury-silver mineral, with prismatic red proustite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution.
Silver minerals on a dolomite matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Native silver photo: Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Acanthite and imiterite photo: Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 29 images. Imiterite photo: Width of view 2.88mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the images below for higher...
Small red twinned proustite crystals in a cavity. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharp dark crystal. Ex Robert Kurcbart. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small red crystals in cavities in quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark green-brown partially terminated crystal frozen in matrix. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single white cluster of crystals on matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue crystals, typical for this locality. Ex Carlo Alciati. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Clusters of white bladed crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A vein of purple fluorite in matrix. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. Specimen measures 28x22x25mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny purple crystals of fluorite embedded in matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1997. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silver metallic bismuthinite on green fluorite that fluoresces under longwave UV. Specimen measures 13x15x7mm. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Dark purple, almost black botryoidal fluorite. Specimen measures 20x18x8mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale green fluorite with a darker core, preferentially coated with drusy quartz crystals. The pale green fluorite fluoresces more strongly than the darker core. Specimen measures 46x30x14mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny colourless fluorite crystals with red minium in a void that would have originally been a galena crystal. Also present, colourless to white acicular (calcium-rich?) pyromorphite crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A small ore specimen comprising purple fluorite (fluorescent), chalcopyrite, and small amounts of galena and sphalerite. Specimen measures 22x20x20mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue lazurite with grey sodalite (hackmanite) that fluoresces orange. Width 48mm. Check out the Fluorescent Mineral Reveal on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbe_9ddRFj4
Pale blue crust of this uncommon copper aluminium sulphate species. Width of specimen 11mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single long thin quartz crystal in a vugh with dark blackish-green chlorite crystals. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 95 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive-green prismatic crystals. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive-green prismatic crystals. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Stacked plates of orange magnesiopascoite crystals. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 87 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tan roweite with colourless olshanskyite. Also present, tiny green andradite crystals. Width of view 38mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Three stepped black perovskite crystals with brown centres, and smaller black melanite andradite garnets. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless calcite crystals that fluoresce white and produce a strong green afterglow when the UV light is removed. Also prismatic colourless natrolite crystals. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 45 images. Probably from the Little Deer Park Quarry. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1 gram of potassium metal 99.8% pure in glass vial under mineral oil. The mineral oil prevents but doesn’t entirely stop the oxidization of the potassium metal, hence the purple hue.
Collected September 1994. Pink rhombs of rhodochrosite with a couple of quartz crystals and a group of small pyrite crystals, all on a cluster of tetrahedrite crystals. Width of the specimen 18mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lots of colourless fluorite crystals that fluoresce pink, on a solid fluorite matrix that fluoresces blue. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless quartz crystals that appear to have formed on another mineral that has since gone. There is a partial gap between the bottom of the quartz plate and the rest of the matrix. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Tiny green prisms of pyromorphite an a cavity of fluorite. The top half of the specimen is all massive fluorite and the bottom half, massive barite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cube-octahedral galena crystals on and in colourless to slightly hint of green cubes of fluorite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small lustrous hexagonal green prisms. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of pentagonite crystals with tiny fibres of mordenite and a few little white calcite crystals. Ex Ed Richards. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
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.
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.
A bit of layering here. The bottom layer is quartz crystals, and they are completely covered in goethite. Next is white dickite. On top of the dickite are colourless-grey fluorite cubes (not fluorescent). These in turn are covered by fibrous malachite and then dark green atacamite. Width of view 5.75mm....
A cluster of rounded fluorite crystals with blue to yellow zoning. Fluorescent under longwave ultraviolet, but not strongly so. A hint of green fluorescence in patches under shortwave ultraviolet. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Specimen is 30mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lots of chalcopyrite crystals on small purple cubes of fluorite and red-fluorescing double-terminated calcite crystals. A few small yellow barite crystals also present. Even smaller pyrite crystals are sprinkled on the barite, and to a lesser extent, on fluorite and calcite crystals. Width of view 17.25mm. Click on the image...
Light purple over some green fluorite octahedral crystals to 10mm with quartz. The green fluorite exhibits blue fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet, but not the purple fluorite. Specimen measures 59mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark purple over green fluorite octahedral crystals to 8mm with quartz. The green fluorite exhibits blue fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet, but not the purple fluorite. Specimen measures 53mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark purple fluorite octahedral crystals to 25mm with iron-stained quartz. The fluorite exhibits blue fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. Specimen measures 52mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark purple fluorite octahedral crystals to 20mm with iron-stained quartz. The fluorite exhibits patchy blue fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. Specimen measures 50mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Light purple cubes of fluorite do not fluoresce under longwave UV, but do fluoresce green under shortwave UV. Calcite is best seen under longwave UV as red patches. Balls of opal fluoresce pale green under longwave. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Click on the images below for...
A small crystal lined agate geode with purple fluorite octahedra with a pale blue-grey surface on amethystine quartz. The fluorite does not fluoresce. Also present, golden sprays of goethite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan for $3 from Bob and June Gleeson in 1998 at the Gawler Gemboree, South...
Purple fluorite crystals in a small cavity adjacent to smoky quartz. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless cubes with a white core of fluorite crystals that glow green under shortwave ultraviolet light. Judging by the colour, it is likely that the fluorescence is due to uranyl ions. A small amount of green pyromorphite, and brown oxidised siderite also present. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view...
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 11.5mm. Photos are white light, longwave ultraviolet and shortwave ultraviolet. Sellaite is cream to white and glows greenish under longwave, more cream to yellow under shortwave. It also looks like it is intermixed with muscovite...
Rosette of colourless hexagonal imayoshiite crystals. Width of specimen 15mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Iridescent botryoidal goethite on on face of the specimen. Specimen dimensions are 35x24x22mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
This is the first time I have seen this colour on a Broken Hill specimen! Spectacular under shortwave ultraviolet light. The smithsonite glows yellow under longwave, pink under medium wave and violet red under shortwave. Sphalerite is visible orange under shortwave and brighter under medium wave. It also appears to...
Superb lustrous apple green bladed annabergite crystals with dull green smithsonite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 170 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A small cluster of apophyllite crystals. Specimen is 10mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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...
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...
Tiny pale baby blue crystals of fluorapatite. Yellow plates of saleeite also present on the specimen. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single colourless hexagonal prism of fluorapatite. The greenish yellow mineral is cyrilovite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 140 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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A brownish-green single fluorapatite crystal with a small amount of attached galena. Shown side lit. Crystal measures 22mm tall. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Japan Law Twin 19x15x8mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
A tough one to photograph! Green prismatic crystals of dioptase from this classic locality. Ex Jo Price Collection, Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky apophyllite crystals on calcite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small sharp apophyllite crystals and balls of goethite on parallel-grown quartz crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
There are two distinct species here based on the fluorescence response. Pale yellow fibrous sprays of weeksite that look like they fluoresce yellow, but are just reflecting the surrounding opal that fluoresce strongly. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images (white light) and 10 images (UV). Use the slider...
A single black crystal with a hint of internal red fire. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Locality not listed in Mindat, nor can I find any other reference to it. Single sylvite crystal without matrix. Sheila Harper found this reference so that might help a bit. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 95 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
Green titanite crystals with tiny worms of dark green chlorite and colourless-white albite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Click here for a short video going through the stack of photos used to create the final product.
Pale green naujakasite with pink villiaumite, black aegirine and colourless sodalite that fluoresces orange. Ex Ole-Thorstein Ljøstad. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Click here for a short video going through the stack of photos used to create...
Not as aesthetic as those from the better-known occurrence at Aris, Namibia, but this one is from the Type Locality. Tan radiating sprays. Collected by Ole-Thorstein Ljøstad. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale green naujakusite with black arfvedsonite. Colourless sodalite shows up as orange patches under UV. Tan patches unknown. Prismatic green crystals possibly aegirine? Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images (white light) and 10 images (UV). Click on the images below for a higher resolution...
Red crystals embedded in matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny pale calcite crystals on black manganoneptunite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 30 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria. Collected by Bill Birch. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A specimen from this locality was used in Miyawaki, R., Nakai, I. & Nagashima, K. (1984) A refinement of the structure of gadolinite. American Mineralogist, 69. Dark green to black gadolinite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny pyrite crystals on the face of a barite crystal, with dark purple fluorite associated. The barite is said to be coloured because of pyrite inclusions, but that even under a microscope, crystals can’t be seen. Except in this case you can see them. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of...
A small piece of gypsum collected at the same time as specimens of barite, calcite and fluorite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 66 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Scheelite on ferberite, 32x30x20mm. Shown under shortwave (left), white light (centre) and longwave (right).
The so-called “Lomu Islands” rose up above the surface of the sea due to eruptions in 2000. There were calls to name them as such after the All Blacks rugby player Jonah Lomu, but this wasn’t officially done. The islands subsequently eroded away. This specimen was collected by Dredge ND-03...
Pinkish-yellowish blocky fluellite crystals with sugary pale greenish turquoise. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky fluellite crystals looking brown due to transmitted matrix colour, white acicular wavellite and colourless flat-lying prismatic crystals of minyulite. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
