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.
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...
Black magnetite octahedra, some with traces of chlorite on their faces. Some magnetite crystals are completely encased in chlorite. Blocky orthoclase crystals form part of the cavity lining. Brown sheaf or club-shaped siderite, yellow hexagonal chabazite-Na, and needles of apatite coated with chlorite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70...
Rhombohedral siderite (after calcite?), chabazite-Na (herschelite), and a needle of apatite with orange chlorite grown on it (in front of siderite). Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Octahedral magnetite crystals with yellowish chabazite and dark brown siderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
Dark brown spherical siderite with colourless orthoclase lining the vugh. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as apatite but I think the long prismatic crystal is gypsum. The termination is wrong for apatite. There is greenish-brown chlorite and a brown siderite with a hollow core, left hand side of the vugh. Colourless gypsum crystals are also in the top right hand side of the vugh....
Yellow and colourless hexagonal chabazite crystals with minor colourless orthoclase and brown siderite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Three colourless analcime crystals isolated the rest, with smaller rounded brown siderites, and one chabazite crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Multiple generations of calcite with siderite, and some of the calcite fluoresces strongly red. One habit is white “Christmas trees”. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Iridescent siderite with hexagonal chabazite-Na crystals. Also present very thin long apatite needles. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Spherical brown siderite on heulandite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A group of cube-octahedral galena crystals with hoppered faces. Width of view 8mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny sprays of goethite on an opal lining of a vesicle. Siderite crystals in another vesicle. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 2002 from Ann and Noel Kennon. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless fluorite cubes that fluoresce blue under longwave ultraviolet, partially coated with siderite. Tiny pyrite crystals also present. Width of view 11.5mm. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless cubes with a white core of fluorite crystals that glow green under shortwave ultraviolet light. Judging by the colour, it is likely that the fluorescence is due to uranyl ions. A small amount of green pyromorphite, and brown oxidised siderite also present. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view...
Lustrous cassiterite crystals and luinaite on and in quartz. Tiny rosettes of tan siderite on the cassiterite. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 110 images. 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...
As with many MSH specimens, you don’t always know what you’ve got! White to tan calcioburbankite on hexagonal prismatic petersenite-(Ce). Many of the brown crystals, the lighter ones, are siderite, but some, the darker brown ones, fluoresce orange, maybe hilairite? There are tiny thin plates of an unidentified mineral that...
White dickite (analysed) with tan siderite and colourless quartz. Specimen is 56mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Basket Weave siderite with pseudocubic chabazite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1982. Width of view 10.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Collected 5/2005. A single calcite crystal on lustrous siderite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unusual rhombohedral hematite showing some rainbow colouration, with orange-brown siderite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale tan ferroan dolomite crystals on dark brown siderite. There is also a tiny pyrite cube visible in the photo, slightly to the right and below centre. The dolomite could grade into ankerite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Interesting arsenopyrite with siderite(?) on a quartz matrix. There are also prismatic bavenite crystals amongst the carbonate blades (not evident in photo). Specimen is 38mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Zoned hemispheres of siderite possibly grading into ferroan calcite. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on image below for a higher resolution version.
Basketweave siderite. Collected by Joan Lamond in 1982. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 150 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Jack Leach. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 80 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show in 1998. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
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.
Brown-tinged cerussite crystals in argentiferous galena with pyrite and minor sphalerite and siderite. Width 11mm. Stack of 100 images.
Basketweave siderite with colourless drillbit twin phillipsite-Na crystals. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 38 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Pale yellow fluorite cubes, blue under longwave UV, with siderite on and in. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Fluorapatite crystals to 14mm across, pale pink fluorescence under longwave with blue rims. No response under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Ambros Kissling Collection
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from John Haupt who collected it in 1971.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from the late Val Hannah.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Sulphur(?) fluorescing
Labelled as limonite after sphalerite, Barry Schubert
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...
Superb twinned chalcopyrite crystals, similar to one found at Mt Lyell in Tasmania. Mindat suggests chalcopyrite is doubtful from this locality.
Type Locality. Named for Robert (Bob) William Whitmore, a mineral collector and previous owner of the Palermo No.1 mine. This specimen was part of a Micromount mineral collection purchased from the estate of Anne-Marie Scholz Deal of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Anne-Marie Scholz Deal initialed her Micromounts as A.M. Munger....
ex Jack Leach Collection
ex Jack Leach Collection
ex Jack Leach Collection
ex Jack Leach Collection
Self Collected 2005
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
Collected. Gypsum post-mining?
JL0685 Basket Weave
Multiple fluorescent colours. Can’t see hemimorphite
Barry Porter “typical of the Reaphook Hill geodes, a lot dug in the 80s, had to walk a few ks from the Scholzite deposit until we found a 4wd track in. Very hard slaty rock to split, geodes from 1 cm to 12cm the biggest I saw. Occurred in layers,...
