November 2018
0040 Atacamite, Mt Gunson, South Australia
Cluster of prismatic atacamite crystals. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 10 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1100 Sulphur, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Photo width 2.5mm. View Larger Map | Get Directions
1883 Diamond, Bingara-Copeton, New South Wales
Photo height 11mm.
4538 Stolzite, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Photo width 11mm. View Larger Map | Get Directions
3397 Quartz, Ilparpa, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Collected when I was working in Alice Springs.
0103 Chabazite, Augite, Cape Sir William Grant, Portland, Victoria
Photo width 3.5mm. View Larger Map | Get Directions
5184 Gold, Fumina South, Victoria
Photo width 11mm. View Larger Map | Get Directions
3980 Cyrilovite, Chalcosiderite, Lake Boga, Victoria
Photo width 25mm.
0614 Analcime, Natrolite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Photo width 11mm.
5352 JL0942 Montmorillonite, Pyrite, Barite, West Head, Flinders, Victoria
Photo width 5mm and 2.5mm.
1146 Mesolite, Levyne, Erionite, Sunderland Bluff, Phillip Island, Victoria
White massive mesolite with erionite epitaxially growing on levyne. Photo width 11mm.
0305 Gypsum, Fossil Beach, Mornington, Victoria
A well-known fossil locality southeast of Melbourne. Collecting no longer allowed.
0431 Calcite, Niddrie, Victoria
Collected by me over 30 years ago. The quarry is now a small lake surrounded by housing.
0463 Calcite, Mn Oxide, Lilydale Quarry, Lilydale, Victoria
Usually referred to as “pyrolusite”, but exact manganese oxide unknown.
0676 Thomsonite-Ca, Chabazite-Na, Gonnardite-Natrolite, Bundoora, Victoria
Grey thomsonite balls, colourless pseudohexagonal chabazite crystals, and white tufts of gonnardite-natrolite.
1210 Calcite, Phillipsite, Marrawah, Tasmania
A doubly-terminated calcite crystal on phillipsite. Photo width 12mm.
3284 Gmelinite-Ca, Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania
Orange gmelinite crystals with colourless phillipsite. Width of view 15mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1847 Tourmaline, Allens Workings, Mt Bischoff, Waratah, Tasmania
Very fine transparent green tourmaline, possibly dravite or schorl.
3964 Faden Quartz, Philosophers Ridge, Mt Lyell, Tasmania
A very unusual occurrence of faden quartz, not normally found in Tasmania. “Faden” refers to the German for thread and relates to the white thread running through the two crystals, top left to bottom right.
5234 Crocoite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
Longest crystal is 45mm.
10024 Wavellite, Phosphate Hill, Mansfield, Victoria
The specimen has very good coverage of wavellite, and interestingly some of the back areas of the specimen has wavellite in other colours, light green, and water-clear. Ex Neil Smith collection. 48x30x37mm.
1112 Copper, Chabazite-Na, Bundoora, Victoria
Very fresh-looking copper protected beneath chabazite-Na from the Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, City of Whittlesea, Victoria.
1090 Calcite, Bundoora, Victoria
Unusual habit for the locality of colourless calcite crystals, Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, City of Whittlesea, Victoria.
1088 Barite, Bundoora, Victoria
Colourless to white bladed crystals of barite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3844 Smoky Quartz, Mooralla, Victoria
3844 Smoky Quartz Rabbit, Anderson’s Gully (Anderson’s Creek), Mooralla, Southern Grampians Shire, Victoria
0674 Ferroan Calcite, Gonnardite-Natrolite, Bundoora, Victoria
Brown ferroan calcite with a white gonnardite/natrolite intergrowth from the Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, City of Whittlesea, Victoria.
5283 Takovite, Rockys Reward, Western Australia
Rocky’s Reward Ni Mine, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Western Australia
4404 Osumilite-(Mg), Hematite, Tridymite, Hendersons Quarry, Mt Ngongotaha, North Island, New Zealand
Hendersons Quarry, Mount Ngongotaha, Rotorua District, Bay of Plenty Region (Te Moana-a-Toi), North Island, New Zealand Photo width 11mm View Larger Map | Get Directions
3746 Quartz, Epidote, Gemstone Beach, Orepuki, Southland District, Southland Region, South Island, New Zealand
Photo width 2.5mm View Larger Map | Get Directions