Green fluorite with purple edges. The green is fluorescent but not the purple. Pale blue prismatic aqua. With the spate of fakes coming out of the region, I have examined this specimen very closely. It...
Labelled as from Dinkey Lake. A cluster of lustrous smoky quartz crystals nestled amongst tan microcline. Ex Mineral Search, Texas. Acquired at Tucson. Slight nibbling on back of termination on the main crystal.
Sharp octahedral grey crystals of alabandite in a matrix of fluorite and calcite, both of which fluoresce (blue and pink respectively).
Colourless pseudo hexagonal platy crystals. Other species present including tiny pyrite crystals on edges of catapleite crystals.
Blue sodalite with intense orange fluorescence under Convoy UV torch.
Greyish foggite with white to colourless montgomeryite at the edge of green variscite. Closeup photo: Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Ex Minerals Unlimited specimen. Click on the closeup photo for a higher...
Vein of silver owyheeite.
Olive-green to yellowish juanitaite, green tyrolite.
Inclusions of pyrite and marcasite. From the Wise Lake Formation. Ex Jared Freiburg, Saga Minerals. Acquired at Tucson in 2011. And here is Jared with one of his cases in 2011 at the Hotel Tucson...
Two well-formed joined at the base crystals.
Ex Jim Ferraiolo. Under magnification, you can see pink hemispheres of an unidentified mineral.
Type Locality. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection No. 3252.
Small anglesite crystals (largest about 3.5mm) on gossan. Ex Ian Graham.
Pale yellow crust on quartz. Not listed in Mindat, but hubnerite is. According to Rock Currier, almost all hubnerite specimens from this mine have been etched out of quartz using hydrofluoric acid.
Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection No. 4132. A sulphate that has a bad effect of paper labels, as can be seen! The label no longer is in contact with the specimen. Labelled as simply Teruel, but...
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Colourless stilbite crystals on black bitumen. Laumontite intermingled with bitumen. Apophyllite (in second photo) and unknown hexagonal or pseudohexagonal (in main photo) crystals in another cavity. Maybe just apophyllite? Photo width 3.25mm. The calcite is...
Unknown Mexican locality. Suggestions welcomed!
Grey mass of coloradoite with brassy pyrite. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection #133.
Single black crystal with greenish patches.
Single blue aquamarine crystal 17ct.
Bright orange mimetite surrounds glassy orange wulfenite crystals.
Type Locality. Tiny white fibres in a vial. Ex R. C. Erd, 1961.
Doubly terminated crystal in matrix. Ex Bob and Vera Turner Collection, El Paso, Texas. Ex Elena van Schriver. Labelled as Lake Jaco. According to Mindat, this is incorrect.
Cluster of colourless quartz crystals.
Small amount of gold in quartz. See arrow.
Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection #1219, labelled as Sylvester Mine. As per Mindat, relabelled from hinsdalite to plumbogummite.
Tiny anatase crystals (arrowed) on quartz with hematite inclusions.
Two greenish opaque quartz crystals joined together. Not smooth faces.
Brown ball on quartz matrix. Minor pyrite present. Ex Elena van Schriver.
Blue and green sapphires, some with good crystal form.
Two specimens of pale blue barite. Interestingly, almost all of the photos on Mindat are yellowish crystals. Fluorescent white.
Greenish-black fragment of a crystal 5mm wide. Acquired from CK Minerals at the 2019 Nunawading Show.
20g L5 chondrite meteorite. Found in 2000 but not from an observed fall. From the Meteoritical Society: Date: 16 Mar 2000 Latitude: 20°31.0’N Longitude: 56°40.0’E Mass (g): 408 kg Pieces: 1000’s Class: L4/5 Shock stage:...
Ex Milton Lavers collection. Exhibited at the Munich Show in 2008. Measures 65x65x35mm.
Cream flattened calcite crystals on tapering quartz crystals.
Cluster of colorless-white quartz crystals. Collected by Tim Greenland in Spring, 1968.
Herkimer-like quartz crystals on matrix. Ex Milton Lavers Collection No. C38.
Cluster of smoky quartz crystals on a feldspar base. Labelled as Santa lucia de Tallano.
Fibrous to prismatic purple crystals. 65x40x20mm. Closeup photo is 6.5mm wide.
Lustrous deep red crystals on one face. Specimen measures 87x40x23mm. Closeup photo is 14mm across.
Gemmy rich emerald-green fluorite octahedrons, to 15mm on edge, cover the matrix plate 75x70x25mm. This colourful two-generation fluorite is from a small 2016 find near Yiwu City, a very obscure locality in Zhejiang Province, China....
Lustrous purple “Grape Agate” with colourless-white calcite crystals, 60mm wide. From Joe George, aka The Scepter Guy, cascadescepters.com.
Interesting cluster of amethyst crystals, 35mm tall.
Stalactite of black crystals of sphalerite with a quartz crystal and minor pyrite on a few sphalerite crystal terminations, 58mm wide.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Pale green octahedral fluorite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Drusy quartz over azurite. Width of view 2mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unusual azurite with the appearance of white edges. Width of view 2mm. Stack of 53 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Pat Sutton at the Bendigo Show.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from John Haupt who collected it in 1971.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Harry Critchley. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 6 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond at the 2001 Wagga Gemboree from a tailgater.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Graham Lee.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from the late Val Hannah.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Type Locality. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $3.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 14 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from the late Frank Robinson in 1995.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 from the late Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 from Nick Carruth. Photo width 11mm.
Ferrian variscite from the Ashley Watt Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree in 1994.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from H. Allen Mitchell of Iowa.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee. Monochrome photo.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee. Monochrome photo.
Ex Bernie Day specimen. As labelled. Suspect that it is more likely a Phillip Island specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 7mm. Stack 0f 11 images.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired in 2001 by Joan Lamond from George Lysiuk (collected in 1986).
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 2001.
Carolinos Mine, Jack Nelson Collection
Carolinos Mine, Jack Nelson Collection
Ex Jack Nelson Collection
