5677 Gold, Sebastopol, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Small amount of gold in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 70 images.
June 2020
5676 Diamond, Panna Mines, Panna, Panna District, Madhya Pradesh, India
Single loose brown flattened dodecahedron diamond crystal weighing 0.35ct. Pale blue fluorescence. Crystal width 5mm. Stack of 90 images.
8201 M3884 Cuprite, Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory
Deep red octahedral crystals when strongly lit. Width 11mm. Stack of 116 images. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection.
5675 Cowlesite, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
One of the rarer zeolites. Silky white sprays. Width 11mm. Stack of 140 images.
5674 Barwoodite, Eggletonite, Aegirine, Big Rock Quarry (3M Quarry; Arch Street Pike Quarry), Granite Mountain area, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA
Brown barwoodite in matrix, tan to brown fibrous to acicular eggletonite, and green aegirine. Portrait photo height 4.5mm, stack of 80 images. Landscape photo width 9mm, stack of 94 images. Type Locality for barwoodite and...
20057 Europium, Man-Made
Small pieces of Europium elemental metal in glass ampoule. Element Eu, number 63 on the Periodic Table.
9049 JP2360 Phenakite, Quartz, Assunção Mine, Aldeia Nova, Ferreira de Aves, Sátão, Viseu District, Portugal
Colourless crystals. Width 11mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9048 JP2233 Brochantite, Devilline, Auzat, Ariege, Occitanie, France
Green brochantite and pale blue devilline. Width 9mm. Stack of 44 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9047 JP2218 Axinite-(Fe), Actinolite, Glandon Pass, Maurienne valley, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Fiery brown axinite associated with and included by pale needles of actinolite. Width 18mm. Stack of 100 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9046 JP2316 Apophyllite, Chabazite-Ca, Thomsonite-Ca, Moonen Bay, Dunvegan, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK
Prismatic colourless apophyllite crystals with pinkish chabazite and colourless bladed thomsonite. The latter fluoresces strong white. Width 18mm. Stack of 180 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9045 JP2202 Lavendulan, Alice Mary Mine, Kundip, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia
Light blue crust on matrix. Width 11mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9044 JP2265 Senaite-Crichtonite series, La Léchère (Notre Dame de Briançon), Tarentaise valley, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Shiny black crystals. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Closeup photo width 2.25mm and stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9043 JP2247 Rutile, Dravite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Blocky brown rutile crystals with green-brown prismatic dravite. Height 5.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9042 JP2253 Skutterudite, Ightem Mine, Ightem, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Silver euhedral crystals. Width 11mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9013 JP2318 Beudantite, Serpieri Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District, Attikí Prefecture, Greece
Olive green beudantite crystals, and some as an epimorph after a cubic mineral (pyrite?). Width 11mm. Stack of 80 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9040 JP2248 Rutile, Pyrite, Glandon Pass, Maurienne valley, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Euhedral oxidised pyrite crystals with small rutile needles. Width 11mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9120 JP2802 Gold, Bendigo, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Gold (trying very hard to be an octahedral crystal) in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 58 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9060 JP2643 Chalcocite, Telfer Mine, Rudall River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia
Sharp platy crystals. Width 7mm, stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
5673 Elbaite, Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Single green terminated crystal 13mm long.
9041 JP2373 Anatase, La Lauzière massif, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Dark bluish anatase crystals. Width 7mm. Stack of 50 (dark one) and 70 (one with reflected face) images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9038 JP2266 Raspite, Stolzite, Les Montmins Mine (Ste Barbe vein), Échassières, Ébreuil, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Tiny orange-brown raspite crystals and yellow stolzite crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9037 JP2292 Gold, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Very small patches of hackly gold embedded in quartz. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9036 JP2344 Bismuth, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Silvery-white crystalline native bismuth. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9035 JP2317 Realgar, Orpiment, Dolyhir Quarry, Wethel, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales, UK
Orange-red realgar and yellow orpiment micro crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9039 JP2278 Pyromorphite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Collected on the Pinnacles Dumps. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 54 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9034 JP2220 Wollastonite, Saint-Maime mines, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur, France
Sharp colourless crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9033 JP2319 Epidote, Calcite, Grossular, Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
White hexagonal calcite crystals that fluoresce pink, green epidote and orange-brown grossular garnet. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9031 JP2362 Senarmontite, Sulphur(?), Tafone Mine, Manciano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
In slag. Colourless octahedral crystals of senarmontite, and yellow sulphur(?) crystals in other cavities. Maybe rosickýite? Senarmontite: Width 9mm. Stack of 54 images. “Sulphur”: Width 1.55. Stack of 16 images. I had to overexpose the...
9030 JP2226 Anorthite, Esseneite, Wollastonite, Leucite, Lapanouse-de-Severac slag locality, Aveyron, Occitanie, France
Colourless tabular anorthite (not shown in photo), black esseneite, colourless thin prismatic wollastonite and colourless euhedral leucite. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9029 JP2235 Camérolaite, Cyanotrichite, 470 Level, Tistoulet mine, Padern, Aude, Occitanie, France
Green acicular camérolaite with light blue fibrous cyanotrichite. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9028 JP2267 Monazite-(Ce), Anatase, Fluorapatite, Quartz, La Léchère (Notre Dame de Briançon), Tarentaise valley, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Greyish-yellow monazite with yellow-orange anatase, colourless quartz and white apatite. The apatite fluoresces a pinkish white. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9027 JP2293 Olivenite, Kaolinite, Ting Tang Mine, West Clifford United Mines, Carharrack, Carharrack, Cornwall, England, UK
Fine green needles of olivenite with white kaolinite. Width 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9026 JP2279 Libethenite, Plimerite, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Lighter green libethenite with almost black bladed plimerite. Natrodufrenite listed on label but I am not able to pick it. There are also other minerals, including possible calcian pyromorphite as white prismatic crystals, hoppered green...
9025 JP2306 Azurite, Harmotome, Barite, Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales, UK
Clusters of blue bladed azurite with many colourless prismatic twinned harmotome crystals, and colourless bladed barite crystals. The barite fluoresces a creamy white. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
5672 Gold, Goethite, New Penrose Mine, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Small amount of gold with iridescent goethite in white quartz.
5671 Gold, Goethite, New Penrose Mine, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Bright gold patches with iridescent goethite in white quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 50 images.
9024 JP2257 Heulandite, Whitianga Road cutting, Whitianga, Coromandel peninsula, Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato Region, North Island, New Zealand
Typical coffin-shaped crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9023 JP2375 Anatase, Quartz, La Lauzière massif, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Sharp bluish crystals of anatase on quartz. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9022 JP2363 Synchisite-(Ce), Hematite, Quartz, Montecrestese, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
Hexagonal pale-coloured prism of synchisite (label says Ce, but Mindat shows this as questionable), with silver hexagonal plates of hematite. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 56 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
20056 RC390 Fluorite, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland
Cluster of pink octahedral crystals, pale blue fluorescence. Ex Roger Colling Collection.
28002 VH34 Fluorite, Calcite, North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Group of deep purple fluorite cubes with octahedral faces, with white calcite that fluoresces red. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Val Hannah Collection.
28001 VH230 Stolzite, Pyromorphite, Sphalerite, Anglesite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Greenish-brown short to long prismatic stolzite crystals with brown pyromorphite. Width 9mm. Stack of 100 images. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Pyromorphite is fluorescent pale orange, but also fluorescing are patches of sphalerite in the matrix...
9021 JP2347 Coronadite, Pyromorphite, Kaolinite?, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Acicular needles of coronadite with a few hexagonal green pyromorphite crystals and white fibrous kaolinite(?). Width 9mm. Stack of 30, 42 and 62 photos. Ex Jo Price Collection.