5677 Gold, Sebastopol, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Small amount of gold in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 70 images.
Small amount of gold in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 70 images.
Single loose brown flattened dodecahedron diamond crystal weighing 0.35ct. Pale blue fluorescence. Crystal width 5mm. Stack of 90 images.
Deep red octahedral crystals when strongly lit. Width 11mm. Stack of 116 images. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection.
One of the rarer zeolites. Silky white sprays. Width 11mm. Stack of 140 images.
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...
Small pieces of Europium elemental metal in glass ampoule. Element Eu, number 63 on the Periodic Table.
Colourless crystals. Width 11mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Green brochantite and pale blue devilline. Width 9mm. Stack of 44 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Fiery brown axinite associated with and included by pale needles of actinolite. Width 18mm. Stack of 100 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
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.
Light blue crust on matrix. Width 11mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Shiny black crystals. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Closeup photo width 2.25mm and stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Blocky brown rutile crystals with green-brown prismatic dravite. Height 5.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Silver euhedral crystals. Width 11mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Olive green beudantite crystals, and some as an epimorph after a cubic mineral (pyrite?). Width 11mm. Stack of 80 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Euhedral oxidised pyrite crystals with small rutile needles. Width 11mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Gold (trying very hard to be an octahedral crystal) in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 58 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp platy crystals. Width 7mm, stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Dark bluish anatase crystals. Width 7mm. Stack of 50 (dark one) and 70 (one with reflected face) images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Tiny orange-brown raspite crystals and yellow stolzite crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Very small patches of hackly gold embedded in quartz. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Silvery-white crystalline native bismuth. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Orange-red realgar and yellow orpiment micro crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Collected on the Pinnacles Dumps. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 54 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp colourless crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
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.
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...
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.
Green acicular camérolaite with light blue fibrous cyanotrichite. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
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.
Fine green needles of olivenite with white kaolinite. Width 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
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...
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.
Small amount of gold with iridescent goethite in white quartz.
Bright gold patches with iridescent goethite in white quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 50 images.
Typical coffin-shaped crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp bluish crystals of anatase on quartz. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
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.
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.
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...
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.