A green spray of libethenite crystals with pale blue turquoise on albite, orthoclase and smoky quartz, with very pale pink fluorapatite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Specular iridescent hematite with botryoidal prehnite and minor white albite. Some massive calcite present, some of which fluoresces red under longwave UV. Width of view 3mm, stack of 50 images (hematite). Width of view 6mm, stack of 95 images (prehnite). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Green epidote, white albite and colourless thomsonite? Light green balls may be chlorite or pumpellyite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White albite, green epidote, and colourless thomsonite, with tiny grey-green chlorite crystals. A vugh on the “bottom” of the specimen contains some nice calcite crystals that fluoresce red under shortwave UV. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Fluorescent photo width of view 3mm. Click on the images below...
Dark grey hexagonal gmelinite crystal with pyrite inclusions, pale tan siderite, red fluorescing calcite, and pyrite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenish-yellow balls of kunatite (previously Unknown Cu Fe Phosphate), with blue-green balls of turquoise/chalcosiderite, a square-shaped torbernite crystal, and some unidentified darker green balls (pseudomalachite?), all on albite, orthoclase and smoky quartz. Collected by John Carey who also gave specimens to Museum Victoria so that they could describe it as...
Black berlinite with light blue inclusions (burangaite?), white augelite, blue scorzalite, and colourless/grey/white albite(?), fluorescent red under shortwave UV, brown garnet(?), a small amount of moss green wicksite(?) and colourless quartz. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Below:...
Greyish-green prismatic spray of crystals of elpidite (green fluorescence), pale yellow tabular thomasclarkite, silver hexagonal molybdenite, tiny brown siderite, green prismatic aegirine, and sodalite (orange fluorescence), in white albite (pink fluorescence). A yellow arrow points to thomasclarkite and elpidite. Identified by mineralogist Dr. Ian Graham. Click on the images for...
Orange prismatic eosphorite crystals. Green crystal aggregates possibly (probably?) zanazziite not roscherite as labelled. Small pyrite crystals also present. Unidentified colourless-white crystal clusters probably albite? Ex Jo Price Collection. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 9mm and stack of 56 images (first photo), 4.5mm and 28 images (second photo),...
Colourless to greyish, and pinky-orange crystals of ancylite-(Ce), or possibly calcioancylite in small cavities in albite. In the second photo, white (probable) calcioburbankite (Type Locality). You can see the hexagonal cross section if you look closely. The label said burbankite. Width of view 3mm and stack of 50 images (ancylite)...
White albite growing epitaxially on orange orthoclase with smoky quartz. Width of view 6mm. 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.
Eucryptite and albite as massive white crystalline material. Pale pink may be cookeite. Specimen measures 75x55x30mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Octahedral fluorite colourless through to a fracture, then pale purple-grey over the rest of the crystal. Blue fluorescence. Hemisphere of brown siderite(?), rounded pyrite, and colourless albite, all on pinkish-tan K feldspar. Ex Art Smith Collection. Acquired by Art from Al Kidwell in 1990. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of...
Purple fluorite cluster and isolated crystals with green needles of aegirine, brown pseudohexagonal pyrophanite, and colourless albite crystals, all in a white albite matrix. Ex Art Smith Collection (collected in 1986). Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny purple octahedral fluorite crystalson albite with greenish chlorite, white prismatic crystals of natrolite(?), colourless quartz, and brown pyrophanite. Also on specimen magnetite, Ex Art Smith Collection (collected in 1979). Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 57 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. When I...
Prismatic green epidote crystals with dark green actinolite and yellowish-green titanite, the latter two not in the photo. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. (First image) Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Below: Actinolite and albite, with minor epidote and pale titanite. Width of...
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.
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...
Black chlorite (chamosite?) with small smoky quartz crystals, colourless albite and white orthoclase. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Half a dozen beryl crystals on a matrix of muscovite and albite. The largest beryl measures 22mm across. Width of crystal in photo 16mm. Stack of 60 images. Whole specimen measures 54x32x30mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 at the Ballarat Gemboree from Don McColl for 50c.
A single hexagonal yellowish apatite crystal perched on albite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellowish pseudohexagonal plates of synchysite-(Ce) with tiny pyrite crystals sprinkled on them. White albite crystals at the base. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1993 from Cynthia Peat (peatite-(Y)). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Cynthia Peat (peatite). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Cynthia Peat.
A single blue anatase crystal on a specimen containing dark green chlorite, orange-brown cassiterite, white albite and colourless quartz. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. The label on the base of the box is in Chris Jewson’s handwriting. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 65 images.
Blue anatase crystals with orange rutile needles on albite and quartz. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
Pink villiaumite, brown tuperssuatsiaite, white ellingsenite, tiny brown unnamed Fe analogue of zakharovite, green prismatic aegirine, colourless albite. Type Locality for ellingsenite and unnamed Fe analogue of zakharovite. Villiaumite fluoresces red (Convoy LW) and nepheline in matrix fluoresces orange. Width 6mm. Stack of 140 images.
Tiny purple octahedral fluorite crystals with green epidote and colourless albite. Width 5mm.
Pale pink morganite beryl, labelled as Pakistan but identified as Pech by Rocksaholics. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $290.
Two small anatase crystals and albite on matrix. Video best viewed full screen.
Labelled as “pennin” = clinochlore, Helmut Braith
Ex John Sobolewski. Ex Joe George (Sceptreguy), Matt Gibbs
Baveno Twins. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Type Locality for Peatite and Ramikite. A number of sharp peatite-ramikite crystals are present on this specimen. The matrix id composed of some blocky pseudomorphs of calcite after ?, synchysite after rémondite along with lots of well-formed siderite, albite and anatase crystals. Peatite named after Cynthia Peat who traded with...
Chlorite and anatase inclusions in thin needle-like quartz. Minor white albite on quartz. Tiny brown rutile(?) on one quartz crystal.
Numerous perfectly terminated, colour zoned elbaite crystals artfully positioned on a matrix of albite which is coated by a nicely contrasting carpet of tiny white muscovite crystals. 55x30x25mm.
Blue cap elbaite with small brown tantalite 47x42x30mm.
Single iron-stained fluorapatite with three small albite crystals, sitting on orthoclase
Pink cap multi-colour single crystal of elbaite. The crystal is doubly terminated and without any damage. 42 ct and 50x20x16mm.
Tiny sharp golden fluornatromicrolite on albite, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
An unusual dark purple zircon on colourless albite from Schellgaden, Murwinkel, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria.
A group of golden titanite crystals, the front one being 2mm across, from Plattenkogel north slope, Anlauf valley, Gastein valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria. Other species present include adularia, a chlorite-group mineral, and albite.
