White acicular-fibrous crystals of aragonite that fluoresce bright white, then fade to a greenish glow, with malachite on barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White acicular-fibrous crystals of aragonite that fluoresce bright white, then fade to a greenish glow, on barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White dumbbell-shaped smithsonite on white bladed barite in massive pink barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Twinned chalcopyrite crystal on pink bladed barite. Malachite sprays also present. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 66 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White prismatic calcite and bladed barite in one vugh, dark green malachite balls and bladed barite in another. The calcite fluoresces strongly bluish-white. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50/80 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
A malachite “pipe” on bladed barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue bowties of azurite with a malachite (or possibly rosasite) ball on pink to tan to white bladed barite. Native copper crystals towards the top left of the image. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue aurichalcite with darker blue rosasite on pink barite. White smithsonite(?) on rosasite. Greenish phosgenite(?) sprays. Unidentified sulphides. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80/90 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue aurichalcite with darker blue rosasite(?) on pink barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green hexagonal bastnäsite-(Ce) crystal in a cavity in fluorite. A pyrite crystal beginning to alter to goethite. White to pink acicular-looking barite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images (bastnäsite-(Ce)). Stack of 40 images (pyrite). Stack of 40 images (barite). Click on the images below...
Drusy colourless quartz crystals after barite (epimorphs). Width of view 9mm. Stack of 175 images.
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.
Red-fluorescing calcite crystals with minor heulandite (pictured) and barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pseudo-octahedral orange crystals with white barite. Ex David Vince. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 63 images. 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...
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...
Stunning chalcopyrite crystals looking hoppered with balls of goethite needles on barite.
Off-white barite aggregates on iron-stained phillipsite with tiny black goethite balls. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 50 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.
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.
Blocky colourless barite crystals with sharp blue azurite. Acquired from John Haupt 4/06. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree in 1994. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Complex yellow crystals of barite on goethite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Golden barite crystals with goethite balls on the surface and native copper inclusions. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of pale yellow barite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Identified from the 2017 mining operation, acquired directly from the miner, Dehne McLaughlin. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
One large crystal with a cluster of smaller ones from a locality best known for its opal. Width of view 22mm.
Dendritic copper in yellow barite. Width of specimen 20mm. Ex George Stacey.
Stubby green crystals of olivenite with pale thin tabular barite, that sprinkled with a tiny yellow arseniosiderite balls. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Cederick Gineste 2/2005. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small yellow barite crystals on matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click Image for High Resolution
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Brian Beyer at the Adelaide Mineralogical Society Seminar for $1.00. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 60 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1996.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
Colourless cubes of fluorite with thin purple edges, colourless fluorite with hematite inclusions/staining, purple cubes, yellow tabular wulfenite, minor white barite. Specimen is 50x36x30mm. Second image is under shortwave ultraviolet light.
Dark tabular barite crystals on a fragment of hematite matrix. Ex George Reimherr Collection. 15mm wide.
Small cavities containing white bladed barite, colourless pseudo-hexagonal chabazite, colourless prismatic apatite and brown siderite. Width of view 3.75mm. Stack of 80 images.
Zoned white to brown barite with tiny colourless mimetite crystals and white “smithsonite”. The latter is not listed in Mindat. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 200 images. Ex Ted Johnson.
Orange-red hexagonal crystals in tabular and prismatic habits on cream-coloured barite plates. Width 11mm. Stack of 150 images. Close-up photo of a 30x27x20mm specimen.
Aesthetic yellow crystal cluster. Acquired at the 2013 Bendigo Show. Video best viewed full screen.
Orange tabular wulfenite crystals with yellow mimetite on pale pinkish crystalline barite. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Fluorite is white, only picked up under longwave UV. Tiny scalenohedral calcite crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Some orange fluorescence – cerussite maybe. Video best viewed full screen.
Two specimens of pale blue barite. Interestingly, almost all of the photos on Mindat are yellowish crystals. Fluorescent white.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Harry Critchley.
White prismatic crystals, Jim Daly, Sauktown Sales, Indiana
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ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Purple zoning around the edges of the fluorite cubes, cream-coloured barite. Ex John Chivers.
Cluster of pale blue barite crystals. Ex Roger Colling Collection #288.
Orange-yellow platey crystals. From the NBHC Mine.
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Cluster of pale blue barite crystals. [private role=”administrator”]Purchased at Keystone, priced at $40.[/private]
Cluster of pale blue barite crystals. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $40.
Quartz pseudomorph after barite. Ex Brother Juan Salvador, FMS, a volunteer at the AMNH in the 1880s. His card apparently read One of the great treasures of my collection, 16/7/1884. Ex American Museum of Natural History. Ex British Museum Collection, number 68. Ex Eugene Carmichael Collection, number 266. Specimen has...
Single large colourless crystal with brown zoned phantom zone. Label suggests it is from about 1900.
Large plate of cockscomb barite. Ex Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd. Similar to Mindat photo 260605. A specimen of baryte, bearing an old adhesive paper label reading: Cockscomb Baryties, from Crich , in old white card tray, from the Gregory, Bottley, and Lloyd collection. James Reynolds Gregory (1832-1899) was one of the...
K & M Brown Collection
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
