A single lustrous red scalenohedral rhodochrosite crystal. Height of view 14.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cyprine was originally defined as a blue variety of vesuvianite. However, cyprine is now a recognised distinct species. Without analysis, a firm distinction can’t be made. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images.
Dark brown crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Location in Japanese 長野県南佐久郡川上村甲武信鈜山 Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thick white tabular hexagonal crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silky erionite growing epitaxially on levyne. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless hexagonal tabular plates of levyne on rounded crystalline aggregates of thomsonite (eg: bottom of photo) and chabazite (eg: top of photo). Also present is what looks like a tiny analcime crystal on one of...
Greenish-yellow crystal and crust on quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Tiny metallic needles. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless hexagonal crystals, as well as yellow iron-stained ones. White fibrous thomsonite, and tiny analcime crystals. Ex Peter Hall. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki. Colourless width of view 6mm, and stack of 30 images. Yellow width of...
A spherical colourless fluorite that fluoresces purple-blue under longwave UV. Orange fluorescence is likely sodalite. Ex Münchener Micromounters. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images (UV) and 60 images (white light). Click on the...
Blue needles of schmiederite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue needles are schmiederite, the tabular blue crystals are chenite. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenish-grey zircons with black inclusions and tiny colourless crystals (sanidine?) sprinkled on terminations, and as most of the matrix. The sanidine fluoresces pink under shortwave UV. Associated with black “biotite” and orange fluorescing sodalite under...
Blue chalcomenite with yellow balls of allophane on metallic krut’aite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan as part of a Swiss collection in 1997. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on...
Type Locality for alfredopetrovite. White balls with a greenish-grey tint of alfredopetrovite, minor pink Co-bearing ahlfeldite, minor light blue chalcomenite(?), minor silver penroseite, white patches of felsőbányaite, and thin colourless blades and colourless blocky crystals...
Type Locality. Small crystalline specimen without matrix. Ex Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Width 2.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Grains of black cadmoselite with orange-brown sphalerite, and silvery metallic clausthalite? Width of view 6mm. Stack of 36 images. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic bright silver crystals from the Schöller dump. From Mindat “A coal mine which started in 1899 as the Schoeller mine. From 1946, it was named Zdeněk Nejedlý Mine, from 1951 Nejedlý I Mine. After...
Blocky colourless crystals with rounded aggregates of thomsonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Richard Bell. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
A lot going on with this specimen. Silver thin ilmenite plates formed first and were then coated with phillipsite-Na and chabazite-Na crystals. You can see the ilmenite where there are broken areas. Then later, a...
Glossy black pieces of ilmenite collected by Judy Rowe from beach sands on the shore of Lake Bullenmerri. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Partially clay encrusted ilmenite with augite and fluorescent calcite. There is a bunch of apatite needles on the top right corner of the ilmenite. Ex Margaret Brown. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images....
Four pieces. Photo shows ilmenite on augite. Also present andesine and hedenbergite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images.
A sharp ilmenite crystal in a cavity lined with sanidine crystals. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 14 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small green titanite with darker green actinolite and black ilmenite of orange stilbite-Ca. Specimen measures 39x30x14mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thick platy crystals of ilmenite with interesting surface features, and a couple of quartz crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded zircons, mostly orange, but also pale pink, with black ilmenite, and a few colourless quartz crystals, from sands at Byron Bay. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1968. Width of view 6mm....
Black mass of crystalline material embedded in matrix. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A red prismatic pseudobrookite embedded in chabazite. Ex Margaret Graham. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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...
Two pieces. Colourless twinned phillipsite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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...
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.
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.
Chabazite-Na and an apatite needle in a vugh in andesite. An opalescent effect is produced by the larger crystal lying flat in the vugh with only one face exposed. The surface has a slightly matt...
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...
Pale yellow hexagonal chabazite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. The second photo was taken by Judy Rowe and uploaded to Mindat in 2009. It would have been a single shot, not...
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.
A colourless gypsum crystal with white hexagonal chabazite. Unsure what the hollowed out crystal is/was (bottom left of photo). The yellow needles are possibly iron-stained or replaced apatite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50...
Unidentified white mineral (possibly thomsonite?) in analcime. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Elongated green platy crystals. Ex Andrew Tuma. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fine acicular connellite with platy green botallackite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A jumble of intense red mostly terminated crocoite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A radiating cluster of purplish-red erythrite crystals. Collected in 1987. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless monoclinic crystals of claudetite with pale yellow sulphur crystals in slag. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Spheres of yellow to orange acicular karibibite crystals with small colourless to green scorodite crystals in gossan matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
A single well-formed arsenopyrite crystal on matrix. Specimen measures 55x30x25mm.
Radial aggregates of metallic grey arsenolamprite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A crystalline mass of native arsenic showing some individual trigonal crystals. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Platy green crystals. Type Locality. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Ex Mike Gough. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless rounded aggregate of hydroxylapatite with thin sword-shaped colourless scholzite crystals, and unidentified green mineral (plimerite?). Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Colourless hexagonal prisms and bowties of hydroxylapatite. Monoclinic tiny thin platy crystals of colourless montgomeryite (eg: top right of photo). The larger colourless crystals are possibly collinsite. White balls of crandallite. Ex Jo Price Collection....
Blocky colourless crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single white crystal of hydroxyapophyllite, with a few colourless needles of natrolite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless to white hydromagnesite crystals on serpentine. Specimen measures 90x55x45mm. Close up photo width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
A ball of crystals of hydromagnesite with white pearly dypingite. Specimen Measures 60x40x15mm. Closeup photo width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny colourless but mostly iron-stained crystals on a goethite matrix. Ex Vince Peisley. Identified for Vince by Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Blue fibrous nakauriite. This species forms as vivid fibrous blue crystals on/in brucite-bearing serpentine. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow crystals in a vugh in ferberite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow aggregates of hydrohonessite on green gaspéite, some of which is coated by gypsum. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Hexagonal olive green crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An aggregate of fibrous purple crystals. Specimen measures 42mm wide.
Tiny purple crystals on larger black crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled: Mt Hokidoke, Nagono Volcano, Japan. Colourless prismatic crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White alteration coating of hydroglauberite on glauberite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A brown scheelite crystal with white calcite on silvery black hübnerite. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bladed tan barytocalcite coated with sugary white crystals. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Specimen measures 44x25x18mm.
Colourless crystals of barytocalcite. Ex Richard Bell. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 5 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Aggregates of bladed crystals with a slight brownish tinge. Ex Tom Cottrell. 2/2005. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A very rich specimen of tan coloured marshite that fluoresces bright red, with pale blue aurichalcite and green smithsonite. Ex Peter Hall. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images (white...
White acicular rabbittite with green platy aggregates of schröckingerite that is highly fluorescent. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow johannite on green unknown (more crystalline and bright fluorescence), and blue chalcanthite. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny creamy-white radial sprays of bayleyite with calcite, gypsum, and unidentified copper and uranium species. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Ex Al Wilkins. Labelled simply bayleyite but I can’t find any distinct material. Some of the matrix is made up of garnet crystals, the garnet from here being almandine. So I can put that on...
From the 2390 ft level. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Zoned green crystals of conichalcite as “V”-shaped crystals in germanite. Type Locality for germanite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A small patch of gold on quartz matrix. Ex Don McColl. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow scalenohedral crystal groups of beudantite-segnitite, with dark red carminite needles. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A group of calcite crystals on a calcite ball in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Bluish-white fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 34 images...
Greenish yellow interpenetrant cube twin with interesting surface features. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A group of dark calcite crystals that show zoning under longwave ultraviolet light in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 56 images (whitelight),...
A steeply-terminated calcite crystal with a dark core in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. The main calcite crystal fluoresces orange under longwave ultraviolet light. A second partial brown calcite fluoresces bright white....
Synthetic diamonds. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images.
Dark brown hemispheres of hollandite. In front of the hollandite are corroded hollowed out hedyphane crystals. Ex Jack and Dawn Leach Collection. Ex Gordon Jackson Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click...
Cuprian tarbuttite with green beudantite and green coatings and crystals of hinsdalite.. Collected by Joan Lamond in 1999 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click...
Green corkite-hinsdalite on colourless pyromorphite with white scholzite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Collected by Joan on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip in 1991. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images....
Tiny pale hillite crystals on scholzite with purplish hemispheres of collinsite. Tiny green balls of plimerite are also present. Type Locality for hillite. Ex Joan Lamond specimen 3823. Joan acquired it from a Whyalla tailgater...
Olive-green micro crystals of hidalgoite on/after mimetite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Reticulated sixling cerussite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Reticulated partial sixling white cerussite with dark blue azurite. A small amount of bubbly smithsonite(?) also present on the azurite just below left of centre. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on...
Pale greenish-yellow cerussite crystals showing signs of reticulated twinning. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale yellow rhombohedral söhngeite crystals in gallite-germanite-tennantite matrix. Type locality for söhngeite and germanite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 44 images. Second image (separate specimen) includes a tiny green crystal towards the top, perhaps...
Pink acicular sprays of erythrite and minor pale purple mansfieldite on black heterogenite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black heterogenite coated by crystalline mansfieldite (coloured pink by cobalt). Pink erythrite (not in photo) and minor yellow smolyaninovite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Lustrous black horizontally striated crystals with steep terminations. Analysed by Peter Elliott. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive-green fornacite with orange-red wulfenite. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow scales of perite with a radiating group of colourless hemimorphite crystals. Olive green crystal of chlorargyrite not in photo. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the...
Black hemispheres of henschelite. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 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.
Colourless and amber-coloured crystals of heulandite. The latter presumably through colour transmitted from the matrix? Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A cavity lined with heulandite crystals ranging in colour from yellow-orange through to orange-red. Some crystals have colourless zones. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A selection of some of a lot of 29 micrometeorites hand sorted by the late Judy Rowe from alluvial concentrates. Judy hand sorted anatase, zircon, maghemite, and other minerals. One of the micrometeorites (just above...
A single larger crystal and smaller drusy crystals of anglesite, altered from galena. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless harmotome crystals with brown calcite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm.
Flat-lying needles of metallic millerite. This specimen was collected prior to Park Slip West beginning operations. So technically, it should not be labelled as such. It should simply be Margam Opencast Mine. Ex Jo Price...
Partially polished crystal of green andradite (Demantoid) showing horsetail inclusions. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 34 images.
Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of 4.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Aggregate of white thin bladed crystals of thomsonite with thin plates of epidote. The garnet is labelled as grossular but is very dark, and could have a significant andradite component. First photo: Width of view...
The faint brownish to colour at the centre of the fluorite explodes like a supernova when hit with a UV torch! It also has inclusions, possibly pyrite or some other sulphide. But it is the...
Green iowaite with orange to brown chondrodite on colourless calcite. Minor black magnetite also present. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view calcite 3mm, stack of 35 images. Width of view iowaite 6mm,...
Labelled as hausmannite, but misidentified magnetite. Also labelled as muscovite, but the green crystal could be iowaite, clinochlore, phlogopite or muscovite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on...
This micro specimen came from the Jo Price Collection. Jo had acquired it from the late Jack Nelson. It is an old specimen simply labelled as mimetite, Tsumeb, SWA. The yellow-zoned “mimetite” crystals look odd...
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Labelled as thomsonite, but clearly identical habit to offretite pictured on Mindat. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless aggregate of epistilbite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Typical epistilbite habit on crystals in one cavity, with smaller crystals associated with prismatic scolecite (not in photo) in another. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a...
A small specimen of manganoan vesuvianite crystals with transparent diopsides. The perfectly terminated vesuvianites have varying colour from intense purple to very pleasing apple yellow-green and some gemmy areas. With exemplary lustre and good light...
Pink fluorescing scalenohedral calcite crystals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A bed of natrolite needles on phillipsite with a few small calcite crystals. There are a couple of even smaller highly lustrous chabazite crystals perched on natrolite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 135 images....
A selection of dull greyish-blue anatase crystals from Carapooee, showing the common dipyramidal forms. There is some abrasion and iron-staining. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a...
Prismatic natrolite on analcime crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Crystal clear twinned phillipsite showing the interesting nontronite background. A couple of long thin erionite crystals also present. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
An arch comprised of mostly chabazite crystals with a small amount of bladed thomsonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Spherical aggregates of grey pseudohexagonal tabular manandonite crystals in a cavity in matrix. Type Locality. Ex Richard Bell Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Natrolite prisms growing from the base of bladed thomsonite. At first, I thought that the natrolite terminations were coated in hyalite opal, with that typical blobby look. But when you look down on the terminations,...
Not sure of the chemistry here, but it appears to be pyrite altered to goethite, then partially altering to hematite. Or possibly the other way round. All with a bit of relict quartz. Ex Jo...
White hexagonal hedyphane crystals that fluoresces orange, with yellow-green prismatic austinite crystals. Minor calcite, more evident in the UV photo. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images (white light) and 16 images (UV). Click...
Pseudo-octahedral grey crystals of hausmannite. Ex Leon Schmidt. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bladed hausmannite looking like hematite with brown calcite. Ex Barry Schubert Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Grungy brown coating of hausmannite over alabandite. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Older photo…
Dark green to black hastingsite with purple fluorite and calcite that fluoresces orange. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Three pieces. Photo shows red-violet hardystonite(?), orange-red sphalerite, greenish-yellow smithsonite(?) and unknown bluish-white mineral. Longwave ultraviolet light. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 22 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
Twinned harmotome, including “drill bit” habit. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharp bluish anatase crystals. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow-orange tinzenite with minor red parsettensite (not in photo) and black manganese oxides. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 34 photos. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Eight magnificent micro synthetic emerald cyrstals of 1 to 2 mm are mounted on a round white apparently plastic disk that’s affixed to a round cork pedestal. The pedestal extends from the bottom of a...
Red Beryl. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria. Stack of 24 images.. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous black melanite variety of garnet. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 42 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...
Tiny tan crystals from the Type Locality. Width of view 7.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fibrous white halotrichite with orange-red botryogen. The small yellow areas are possibly melanterite, or another sulphate. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a...
An efflorescence in a gel capsule. White halotrichite and pale yellow melanterite. Identified by Ralph Bottrill. Width of view 7.25mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny white areas of halloysite on dark green atacamite. Ex Mal Annells Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin orange plates of wulfenite with yellow-green rounded pyromorphite, and tiny sharp olive-green fornacite crystals on bluish-white halloysite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below...
A close up photo of the specimen Judy Rowe uploaded to Mindat in 2014 (https://www.mindat.org/photo-615149.html). The pink colour has disappeared. That is because it is caused by a bacteria, and that bacteria has gone on...
Colourless hoppered halite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
White (was very pale pink) partially dissolved halite, highly fluorescent white. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Better-known for its green gypsum, this locality also occasionally produces little surprises like this one. Halite cubes perched on the termination of a gypsum crystal. Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Height of view 9.7mm. Stack...
A cluster of colourless to white cubes. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Crude cubes of halite found on the protected underside of a piece of broken crockery at a location known as “Treasure Beach”. Here, broken crockery and glass had been dumped in the early days of...
Colourless cubes with a slightly melted look. Width of view 14.4mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A spray of orange eosphorite covered by green zanazziite(?). The second photo shows a broken surface where you can see the original eosphorite. Is this then coated by zanazziite giving it a green colour, then...
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...
Nimite (Type Locality) is a chlorite group mineral (yellowish-green but can be stained by iron oxides), whilst népouite (bluish-green) is a serpentine group mineral. Ex Jim Ferraiolo. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images....
Bluish-green massive falcondoite. Specimen is 30x25x25mm. Type Locality. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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...
Red to orange cinnabar on smithsonite with a few bladed crystals of hemimorphite. These minerals all on calcite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below...
A classic and really cute example of epitaxy. Chalcopyrite epitaxial on a sphalerite crystal. And to add to the cuteness, there are some tiny tetrahedrite crystals bottom left of photo. Width of view 6mm. Stack...
Colourless, pale blue and pale green fluorapatite. Dark brownish-red andradite. Dark green diopside. Brownish black allanite-(Ce), variety bagrationite. Ex Costas Constantinides. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
White albite growing epitaxially on orange orthoclase with smoky quartz. Width of view 6mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Native copper porphyroblasts in saturated wood from an ancient mine. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Two joined benitoite crystals (I hesitate to say twinned as I don’t know what sorts of twins can occur), shown in normal, longwave ultraviolet (red), and shortwave ultraviolet (blue). It is really interesting how different...
Dark blue benitoite, shown in white light, under longwave UV with a red fluorescence, and shortwave UV with a blue fluorescence. Width of view 12mm. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny sprays of post-mining gypsum crystals collected on the dumps. Look closely and you can some fishtail twins (eg: near the centre of the photo). Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on...
Prismatic colourless crystals of gypsum. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Interpenetrant gypsum crystals. Collected during roadworks. Largest crystal is 27mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Gypsum crystals on secondary copper mineral (chrysocolla?). Ex Lesley and Doug Ball Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A brownish-grey gypsum rose with a white UV reaction. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Margaret purchased this specimen in 1983 in Broken Hill. Labelled simply Maryborough, Queensland. There is some doubt that it may not be...
Colourless gypsum crystals with a white granular coating. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cream ball of gyrolite with white tacharanite on colourless phillipsite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Elongated orange-brown grossular garnet. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange grossular (hessonite) garnets. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny off-white scheelite crystals (not in photo) and pale green grossular garnets. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive-green crystal of grossular garnet. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small grey-green grossular garnets with white wollastonite and yellow-orange vesuvianite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olivine-green crude crystals of grossular embedded in magnetite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown grossular garnet with blue chrysocolla. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small quartz crystals on olive-green to brown grossular garnets. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green chrome-rich grossular garnet crystals. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Reddish-brown fibres of hewettite with bubbly grey variscite balls and unknown lime green mineral (vésigniéite? maybe). Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a...
Pale adamite crystal aggregates with deeper green cores of copper-bearing adamite (or zincolivenite?). Interestingly, as you move the specimen around under the microscope, the “hard dividing line” between the two colours looks like it moves!...
Purple cobaltkoritnigite, pink erythrite balls, thin bladed prismatic silky white hörnesite, pale pink sainfeldite, white weilite, and silky white sprays of picropharmacolite. Type Locality for picropharmacolite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 36 images. Click...
Silver cobaltite crystal in matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark grey pseudocubic crystal embedded in matrix. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small pyrite crystals on calcite crystals. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 65 images. Allegedly, a dead tree once stood over this quarry with the inscription “D. Boon (Daniel Boone) Cilled...
An aesthetic parallel growth of copper crystals. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of specimen 7mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution verion.
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...
Green and bluish-green wardite in yellow crandallite with white crandallite and pale pinkish crandallite. Type Locality for wardite. Vintage micromount collected and mounted by John Melhase in 1935. Ex John Malhase. Ex California Academy of...
A nice group of bournonite crystals perched on brassy arsenopyrite and dark sphalerite crystals. Quartz crystals on specimen but not in photo. Height of view 5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below...
Dark red spheres of rhodochrosite on white albite. Colourless crystals in the foreground and on the left may be pectolite. Minor green aegirine also present. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on...
A single sharp green libethenite crystal with a spray of lighter green ulrichite, on a bed of green chalcosiderite crystals. Height of view 2.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a...
Tiny colourless crystalline balls of variscite. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Platy green crystals on smoky quartz. Most are much thinner than the one in the photo. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Natrolite perched on other natrolite crystals, on analcime. Red gmelinite coloured by hematite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bright white matted liskeardite lining cavity. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pharmacosiderite cubes coated in a thin coating of iridescent goethite(?) or maybe silica(?). Ex Chris Jewson. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a...
Tufts of blue connellite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red carminite forming epimorphs after prismatic mimetite crystals, with green pharmacosiderite. Width of view 4mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White “snowflakes” with grey centres. Ex Dick Dufton. Width of view 8mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous red pseudobrookite crystals with yellow transparent enstatite crystals. The lustre is so good you can clearly see the reflections of other crystals. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 40 images....
Lustrous dark brown pseudobrookite crystals with yellow transparent enstatite crystals. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 6.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous brown pseudobrookite crystals with yellow transparent enstatite crystals. One very thin apatite needle is also present. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for...
Lustrous brown pseudobrookite crystals with tiny yellow transparent enstatite crystals. The larger pseudobrookite crystal has a slight “bend” in it. Hematite is out of view of this photo. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view...
Orange pseudocubic svanbergite with a pyritohedron pyrite crystal (altering to goethite) on white dolomite. Ex Ray Hill 7/2007. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Dark red prismatic carminite with yellow-green beudantite-segnitite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 18 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acicular blue connellite with green brochantite. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Below: Connellite. Photo width 15mm.
Tiny groups of pale blue acicular crystals of mixite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark red carminite, green beudantite and pharmacosiderite, and pale green scorodite, all in cavities in arsenopyrite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
May be bettertonite/penberthycroftite rather than liskeardite. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale green hexagonal pyromorphite crystals. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A twinned yellow crystal on gossan. There looks to be a possible arsenopyrite crystal that perhaps the cerussite seeded on. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a...
Red parallel growth realgar with tiny orange orpiment patches. Ex Trevor Hocking. Width of view 6.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green partial coating on sphalerite crystals on dolomite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Off white fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet may be calcite partially coating dolomite. Click on the image below for a...
Purplish-grey grimaldiite in a crocoite vugh. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow exsolution of greenockite-hawleyite on sphalerite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenockite as a yellow coating/exsolution on sphalerite crystals. Some tiny orange crystals of greenockite evident particularly in the bottom left-hand quadrant (zoom in to explore). Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on...
A small fragment of goslarite showing some tiny crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A small spray of graphite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fragments of nodules analysed as containing goyazite, hematite and apatite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 30 images.
Pale green crystals on a quartz matrix, that really light up under longwave ultraviolet light. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 10 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small, white crystalline mass of slawsonite with very minor matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. The dealer gave Andrew the locality as Kagami-mura, Kochi in 1987. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version....
Almost pure pale beige fine-grained mass of tobelite. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Type Locality. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Sliced specimen showing micro black inclusions of rock-forming potassic-sadanagaite from the type locality. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Purchased by Andrew from Soenke Stolze in 2014. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version....
Glassy white finely-crystalline sibirskite without matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Purchased by Andrew from Soenke Stolze in 2008. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Greenish-brown, massive bunnoite on black hausmannite. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Purchased by Andrew from Marzio Mamberti in 2017. Type Locality for bunnoite. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Small, crude, subhedral crystal aggregate of hydrobiotite without matrix. Older material, purchased from Excalibur Mineral Company in 1986. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Pure, white, fine-grained piece of sudoite. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Older material, purchased by Andrew from David Garske in 1984. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Grey, fine-grained rectorite without matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Purchased by Andrew from Roger’s Minerals, Canada, in 2007. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Small dark olive-green grains and prismatic cleavages of barroisite in schist. Material originally from Yosuke Ito in 1982 and purchased from Minerals Unlimited the same year. This may in fact be a different amphibole species,...
Rich dark-green-black, radiating crystalline hastingsite with hedenbergite. Old material (ex-John Patrick, January 1963), purchased from Ralph Merrill (Minerals Unlimited) in 1984. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version....
Sliced, polished sample, showing pale blue vein of itoigawaite in jadeite matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Type Locality. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
Pinkish massive to crystalline pyroxmangite with lustrous/metallic black to deep red neotocite with conchoidal fracture. Click on image below for a higher resolution version. Andrew Hodgson photo.
A cluster of pinkish gypsum crystals.
Lustrous black crystals. Ex Ed and Martha Cunningham Collection.
Labelled as mixite and cuprian adamite. Is it mixite or agardite? Cuprian adamite or zincolivenite? Mindat lists all. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
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.
Fragments of iron showing some signs of oxidation. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of sulphur crystals with globular hyalite opal. Width of view 7.75mm wide. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated hoppered crystal of sulphur 14.5mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharply-terminated crystal of sulphur with interesting growth patterns 11.5mm tall, no matrix. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated “herringbone” crystal of sulphur 16.5mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated hoppered group of crystals of sulphur 17.25mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated hoppered crystal of sulphur 22mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny group of sulphur crystals on sinter. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
