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.
Sharp crystals of pale brass arsenopyrite and black sphalerite, and a tiny bit of chalcopyrite. Photo width 9mm. Stack of 50 images (arsenopyrite), and 60 images (sphalerite). Ex Jo Price specimen.
A single purple octahedral crystal of fluorite (fluorescent) with golden sprays of goethite on quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Clusters of tiny olive-green crystals. Width 7mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
A single pale yellow crystal. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Rich hackly gold in quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp brown jarosite crystals with rainbow goethite. Width 9mm. Stack of 34 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Purple cookeite, rare according to Tom Klinepeter. Width 9mm. Stack of 66 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp brownish crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Tarnished silver tetrahedral crystals. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 24 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Although not that uncommon, zircon xenocrysts that have come up as part of the molten material are usually hard to spot. This zircon has only been affected a little. It also exhibits a nice rainbow...
Powellite is uncommon in Australia, particular as distinct crystals. Mindat has only one photo, a powellite with ulrichite and fluorapatite from Lake Boga. This specimen has excellent crystals. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 180 images. Ex...
Pale greenish rounded pseudohexagonal twins of tridymite with goethite(?). Oxidation due to the breakdown of either ilmenite or magnetite. You can see the hexagonal outline of the tridymite here and there.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Brown grossular garnet crystals in vughs with trigonal hematite crystals. Acquired by Joan in 1994 from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree. With 9mm. Stack of 60 images.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Colourless gypsum crystals on green chrysocolla (labelled as pseudomalachite). Acquired by Joan in 1995 from John Toma while on a field trip to Lake Boga. Width 9mm. Stack of 30 images.
Brown puffballs of kidwellite in a cavity. Width 9mm. Stack of 42 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp green crystals of molybdofornacite on tabular yellow wulfenite with cream zoned hexagonal pyromorphite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 37 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Brown equant crystals of andradite garnet. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 89 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Stubby orange crystals with unknown powdery yellow material. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 71 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Lemon pectolite crystals with green grossular garnets. Height 4.33. Stack of 45 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Black spheres of goethite on blue plumbogummite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp black prismatic pseudobrookite, colourless hexagonal nepheline, white fluorapatite, brownish biotite, single reddish rhonite. Width 2.77mm. Stack of 16 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Basketweave siderite with colourless drillbit twin phillipsite-Na crystals. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 38 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Colourless blocky crystals fluoresce orange under longwave UV. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 64 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Pale creamy greenish-yellow tufts of kidwellite with glassy lilac strengite crystals. Width 3.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Colourless natrolite needles with a pink base, possibly caused by hematite, on phacolitic chabazite crystals (probably chabazite-Na). Width 9mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Small pyrite cubes with minor octahedral corners, colourless to orange stellerite crystals and white laumontite. Height 4.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Small flakes of gold on vein quartz and on galena. Also present in one cavity – malachite and cerussite. Possible acanthite on silver in another. Width 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Pale blue aurichalcite with white hydrozincite and pink calcite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 162 images. Ex Jo Price Collection. Below: Nodular white hydrozincite with blue aurichalcite and pale pink calcite. Width of view 6mm. Stack...
Transparent brown to almost black prismatic cassiterite crystals with dark greenish schorl and yellow calcite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 109 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Many flakes of gold on matrix. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Green pyromorphite crystals with sharp orange-red crocoite crystals. Width 3.25mm, stack of 102 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp orange-red doubly-terminated anatase crystals with platey brookite, on quartz with minor hematite. The specimen was only labelled as anatase, but the brookite, although small, is very nice. Header photo (anatase) width 9mm, stack of...
Tiny crystals of calcite, phillipsite and chabazite on the sides of aragonite needles. Aragonite fluoresces white with a fading greenish afterglow. Photo width 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Pale blue needles on quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Colourless crystals. Yellowish fluorescence in matrix. With 9mm. Stack of 86 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Single yellow transparent scheelite crystal. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Flat bladed bright blue crystals. Width 4.5mm. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Tiny purple octahedral fluorite crystals with green epidote and colourless albite. Width 5mm.
A lot going on here. Orange phantoms in quartz crystals. These are coated in white drusy quartz. Then there are colourless quartz scepters. But not just at the tips. There are tiny little sceptres ALONG...
Pale pink morganite beryl, labelled as Pakistan but identified as Pech by Rocksaholics. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $290.
Agate-patterned calcite, commonly called eye agates, are generally found loose on the eastern side of the bay. Video best viewed full screen.
Aesthetic yellow crystal cluster. Acquired at the 2013 Bendigo Show. Video best viewed full screen.
Labelled pseudomalachite and does look like it. But more likely cornwallite(?) given the occurrence of many arsenate minerals at Mt Bonnie. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width 9mm, stack of 70 images.
Single crystal with neat phantoms. Video best viewed full screen.
Lots of orange-brown hexagonal crystals, some with prism faces. Matrix exhibits a bright creamy fluorescence.
Kaolinite pseudomorph after orthoclase (Pig’s Egg). Purchased at the 2013 Ballarat Gem Show. Video best viewed full screen.
Terminated crystals of blue beryl with colourless crystals of sellaite and quartz. Fluorite was picked up by fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. A yellow-orange fluorescence may be non-crystalline sellaite. In the fluorescent photos, there are also...
Sharp orange-red crystal groups and single crystal. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
Single crystal on small amount of matrix. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
White natrolite and red (hematite-stained) gmelinite in a vugh in basalt. Video best viewed full screen.
Superb cluster of azurite crystals. Very solid piece. Video best viewed full screen.
Two sharp azurite crystals in a V formation with unidentified green and white minerals. Video best viewed full screen.
Sharp orange-red tabular/platey crystals. Locality likely Jianshan Mine, although not labelled as such. Labelled as Guangxi, China – no wulfenite listed in Mindat in this region. Recent similar specimens from seller are noted as Xinjiang...
Quartz and hematite pseudomorph after an epidote crystal coated with tiny quartz crystals. MinID RMK-561. Video best viewed full screen.
Slender quartz crystal with goethite inclusions and unknown black rhombohedral species. Video best viewed full screen.
Deep orange-red sharp crystals. Ex Brian Shelton Collection. Photo widths 9mm and 5mm.
Heavy specimen. Sharp pale blue crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
Many crystals not terminated. The largest terminated crystal has smaller parallel growth crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
Collected August 2010 by Dave Rosewall and Paul Melville. Video best viewed full screen.
Predominantly blue and green thin opal seams.
Butterfly twin. Pink fluorescence. Video best viewed full screen.
An attractive copper specimen partially altered to dark red cuprite. Video best viewed full screen.
Complex black sphalerite with orange coated quartz crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
Heavy specimen. Most of the matrix is cassiterite too. Video best viewed full screen.
Fluorapatite crystal is repaired in three places. It is not fluorescent, but the glue used is. The calcite matrix fluoresces pink. Video best viewed full screen.
Often, Rogerley specimens are larger with bigger crystals. But this one is cute. And of course, fluorescent. Video best viewed full screen.
Pyrite after marcasite, with calcite and a second generation of pyrite. The calcite is fluorescent pink under longwave UV. Video best viewed full screen.
Mineralisation on all faces with no obvious point of contact so was probably a breccia. Some glue on one side. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Ron Galbraith Collection, Northern Districts. Video best viewed full screen.
Deep orange-brown crystals, with some tan coloured faces. Video best viewed full screen.
Orange tabular wulfenite crystals with yellow mimetite on pale pinkish crystalline barite. Video best viewed full screen.
Sharp orange wulfenite blades, some with a dusting of white calcite on one face. Video best viewed full screen.
Fracture runs right through specimen. No sign of any repairs. Video best viewed full screen.
Feathery apple-green sprays of the rare copper uranium phosphate, ulrichite. 5mm across.
5200-5203 mounted in one box. by Jules Bernhardt in 1976. Video best viewed full screen.
5200-5203 mounted in one box. by Jules Bernhardt in 1976. Video best viewed full screen.
5200-5203 mounted in one box. by Jules Bernhardt in 1976. Video best viewed full screen.
5200-5203 mounted in one box. by Jules Bernhardt in 1976. Video best viewed full screen.
Hematite inclusions in amethyst. Video best viewed full screen.
Sharp green dioptase crystals on calcite. Ex Roger Colling Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Pink-orange chabazite and colourless pearlescent heulandite. Includes old label. Video best viewed full screen.
Pale “fibrous” termination on main crystal. No matrix. Video best viewed full screen.
A tiny calcite crystal is perched on hematite-coated gmelinite in a vugh of analcime. Collected when it was called Fieldwicks Quarry. Video best viewed full screen.
Dull brown (metamict?) zircon crystal. Video best viewed full screen.
Old specimen of largish hemimorphite crystals partially coated by calcite crystals and glued to a glass base. Acquired from Crystal Habit. Ex J. Strange Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
K & M Brown Collection Video best viewed full screen.
Dehne McLaughlin 2/2005 Video best viewed full screen.
Tiny white calcite on yellowish calcite, chalcopyrite partially covered by sphalerite, and quartz and colourless fluorite. Video best viewed full screen.
Yellow bypyramidal crystals of wulfenite with green mimetite balls. Video best viewed full screen.
Sharp cassiterite crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
Two separate habits of erythrite, distinct sharp dark purple crystals and small hemispheres of pink crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
Blebs of purple stichtite enclosing relict chromite in serpentine. One face polished. Type Locality. Video best viewed full screen.
Typical “Campylite” from this famous occurrence. Video best viewed full screen.
Rhodochrosite epimorphs after ?? With tiny quartz crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Mass of arborescent copper. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Labelled as N’Chwaning II but should be N’Chwaning I according to Mindat. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Type Locality.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Fluorite is white, only picked up under longwave UV. Tiny scalenohedral calcite crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Single twinned crystal. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Pale yellow fluorite cubes, blue under longwave UV, with siderite on and in. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Flattened hexagonal dipyramid yellow crystals with pronounced pinacoid faces, and with tiny colourless-white acicular crystals of quartz. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Pink rhodochrosite with small white crystals (kutnohorite?). These white crystals are also included in the quartz. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Black groutite on an unknown brown stalactitic mineral with calcite that fluoresces red. Ex Barry Johnson Collection.
Cream bertrandite with small pyrite cubes, black ferberite, and orange-brown rhodochrosite. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Olmiite fluoresces bright red under longwave UV. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Labelled as clinozoisite but according to Mindat, all analysed specimens are epidote.
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Some orange fluorescence – cerussite maybe. Video best viewed full screen.
Yellow fluorescence under longwave (indicating the presence of molybdenum). Bluish-white under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
Fluorapatite crystals to 14mm across, pale pink fluorescence under longwave with blue rims. No response under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
Two small anatase crystals and albite on matrix. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Cave-formation white aragonite. Bright white fluorescence with pale blue crystal tips under longwave, pale pink under shortwave.
Bi-coloured pink and green. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Group of platy hematite crystals. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
White spiky balls of calcite on quartz. Fluorescent pink.
Single twinned crystal on matrix. Ex Brian Shelton Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Cluster of lustrous sharp crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
A rich specimen of apple-green micro crystals of ulrichite.
A group of parallel oriented sharp black ferberite crystals on a cloudy quartz crystal with a clear tip.
Superb azurite crystal altering from within to malachite.
Yellow crystals of tellurite on platey brownish denningite with silver tellurium.
Greenish-yellow pearly hemispheres
Schmitterite as tiny yellow to cream sprays, emmonsite green
Blocky malachite crystals on cuprite and quartz.
Grey complex dolomite crystals with a single brownish cerussite crystal from the Kintore open cut, Broken Hill. In addition, there are tufts of an unknown white mineral. Candidates could be sepiolite (not recorded at Broken...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
Particles of HOLOTYPE material of Mongolite – extremely rare niobo-silicate known only in two localities worldwide. Sample comes from ex-collection of Dr. E.I. Semenov (Semenovite-(Ce)) obtained by him from the author of the mineral Dr....
Micro-nugget ~0.83×0.52×0.20 mm of pure, analyticaly confirmed by microprobe Stistaite from placer of Edzhei river. Dark in BSE phase on the SEM image (which is megascopically white) is thin film of Senarmontite, covering surface of...
Ex Ambros Kissling Collection
A single blocky hydroxyapophyllite-(K) crystal on a bed of prismatic colourless natrolite crystals. Width of view 10mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Mick Hately Collection. Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
