5848 Quartz (Battery Sand), Misery Creek area, near Berringa, Victoria
Quartz grains from a gold mine battery. Quite fine crushed quartz. The old-timers would have extracted almost all of the gold. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 60 images.
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ncat TRA1 Fluorite, Quartz, Pyrite, Les Rocs quarry, Buxières-les-Mines, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Purple fluorite cubes with tiny pyrite, some elongated, on white quartz. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 89 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat BDAU M3010 Likasite, Cuprite, Quartz, Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, District Council of Mount Remarkable, South Australia
Blue bladed crystals of likasite on cuprite (top left). Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU002 Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Pink rhodochrosite balls and isolated rhombohedral crystals on quartz. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 90 images.
ncat JP2716 Libethenite, Pseudomalachite, Quartz, Bluebell Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Light green sprays of prismatic libethenite with blue-green pseudomalachite on quartz crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1234 Pseudomalachite, Libethenite, Quartz, West Bogan Mine, Collorina, New South Wales
Pale green opaque sprays of libethenite with globular pseudomalachite, and quartz crystals. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3555 Pseudomalachite, Libethenite, Sampleite, Quartz, Endeavour 26 Open Cut, North Parkes Mine, Parkes, New South Wales
Platy blue sampleite, light green libethenite sprays, and darker green pseudomalachite. Libethenite photo: Width of view 6mm, stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2723 Pyromorphite, Quartz, Bunker Hill Mine, Wardner, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
Greenish-yellow crystals showing some sceptre growth. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1334 Pyromorphite, Plumbogummite, Quartz, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Sharp steeply terminated green crystals of pyromorphite, some partly coated with plumbogummite, on quartz crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 115 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1655 Pyromorphite, Quartz, Burgam Mine (Burgham Mine; Burgum Mine), Stiperstones, Hope-Shelve District, Shropshire, England, UK
Yellowish-green to green hexagonal prisms in clusters. Some tiny colourless quartz crystals. Some zoning. Some barrel-shaped crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat SE Quartz, Chrysocolla, Red Cloud copper mine, Gallinas Mountains, Red Cloud District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
Small colourless quartz crystals on botryoidal zoned chrysocolla. Ex Scott Braley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.