Tiny blue crystals of linarite with a green crust of brochantite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny blue linarite crystals with green brochantite, white cerussite and possible ktenasite. Unidentified brown pseudomorph(?), perhaps originally a chlorite mineral? Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-green pseudomalachite and brochantite with green libethenite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic libethenite crystals with the smaller ones being a transparent light “epidote” green, and the larger ones being a very dark blackish-green. Greenish blue brochantite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 130 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sky blue ktenasite with green brochantite on reticulated cerussite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Ex Peter Elliott. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-green brochantite with yellow kasolite, brown andradite, and yellow-green mottramite(?), Green Parrot Mine, Jervois Range, Northern Territory. Below: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Below: Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An aesthetic and really interesting specimen. Four well-formed cuprite crystals with tiny green brochantite crystals and blue connellite puffballs, sitting on a bed of white smithsonite stained by goethite. Then under longwave UV, you can see a couple of light red fluorescing calcite crystals, and small areas of tiny marshite...
Superb blue sprays of connellite in slag.
As well as the linarite and hemimorphite, there are minor amounts of aurichalcite, brochantite, pyrite, galena, and some skarn minerals present. Collected by Gerry Morvell and acquired from Gerry by Margaret Brown in 1995. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 83 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Blue spray with green malachite and brochantite, and unidentified pale green material in massive cuprite with quartz. Ex Brian Beyer. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Superb blue sprays of connellite with prismatic green brochantite and a couple of green malachite hemispheres, in slag. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Acquired from Greg Vort-Ronald at the 2022 Palmer Show, South Australia. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale pink to pale blue crust of chalcoalumite with green brochantite and yellow crusty beaverite-(Cu). Visual ID by Ralph Bottrill in about 2007. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images (first photo – chalcoalumite) and 80 images (second photo – brochantite). Click on images below for a higher resolution...
