0681 Stepite, Geschieber vein, Svornost Mine (Einigkeit Mine), Jachymov (St Joachimsthal), Jachymov (St Joachimsthal) District, Krusne Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Bohmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Type locality. A uranium arsenate that occurs as green tabular crystals and spherical aggregates on weathered arsenic matrix.
0671 Fluorite, High Skears Mine, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Teesdale, North Pennines, Co. Durham, England, UK
Composed of honey yellow cubic fluorite crystals with inky blue color zone exterior edge phantoms. The specimen comes from the High Skears Mine, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Middleton, North Pennines, County Durham, England, UK. It measures 6.5×5.0×2.8cm in size, weighs 72 grams, and hosts cubic fluorite crystals reaching 1.0cm in maximum diameter. The...
Deaccessioned 0654 Halite, Detroit Salt Company Mine (International Salt Company Mine), Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan, USA
Excellent colourless transparent cubic crystals reaching 2.2 cm in diameter and is basically all halite with the large clear crystals on the top of the piece growing on a much smaller light tan crystal base. It measures 11.0×6.1x 4.1cm in size, weighs 4.4 ounces. It is also wonderfully FLUORESCENT ORANGE...
0646 Garronite, Garron Plateau, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
Redefined in 2015 after garronite-Na described from Mont Saint Hilaire.
0633 Siderite, Vivianite, Wannon Falls, Wannon River, Wannon, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond 3575, acquired from Museum Victoria. Dark brown trigonal crystals. Minor vivianite on one edge.
0631 Ferrierite-(Mg), Chabazite, Redcliff Head, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Pearly white hemispheres of ferrierite-Mg, showing the radiating form on broken surfaces. Look closely and you can see orange chabazite beneath the clay layer, and a few tiny colourless chabazite crystals sprinkled on top of the ferrierite. Width of view 6.4mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below...
0607 Azurite, Quartz, Malachite, Burra Burra Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Ex Joan Lamond 3156, received as a gift from Frank Robinson in 1986. Drusy quartz coats azurite crystals. One or two are pseudomorphs of malachite after azurite.
0603 Carpholite, Horni Slavkov (Schlaggenwald), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Bohmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Type Locality. Ex Joan Lamond 3704, but number does not match her Micro Collection Catalogue. Probably from her other mineral collection. Silky yellowish acicular flattened aggregates.
0591 Thomsonite-Ca, Chabazite-Ca, Tylden quarry, Tylden, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond 3844, personally collected by Joan in 1992. Complex twinned chabazite.
0585 Sulphur, Sphalerite, Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England
Ex Joan Lamond 3016, received in a swap with Harry Critchley (UK).
0569 Plumbogummite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond 3947, received in a swap with Jo Price (Melbourne). As white crusts and tiny white balls.