Sky blue ktenasite with green brochantite on reticulated cerussite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Ex Peter Elliott. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue coating of ktenasite. Gordaite not in photo. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Ex Peter Elliott. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink cobalt and nickel-bearing köttigite acicular crystals in a vein of sulphides – sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and arsenopyrite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Pink cobalt and nickel-bearing köttigite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Terminated crystal in schistose biotite granulite. Specimen measures 90x75x50mm.
A kornerupine crystal in matrix, with a smaller one at the back. Specimen measures 47x28x25mm.
A crystal fragment 23mm wide.
Pale blue crystals, post-mining occurrence. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images.
Very pale platy to fibrous crystals on gossan. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale yellow plates of koechlinite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenish-yellow masses. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Colourless crystals. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White acicular sprays of kleemanite on green smithsonite. Also present but not in photo, cerussite and linarite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny green crystal aggregates. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Two pieces. Type Locality. Pale olive green with brighter yellow-green balls. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for kingsgateite. Yellowish green kingsgateite with blue gelosaite on smoky quartz. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. XRD Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below...
Type Locality for kingsgateite. Tiny green kingsgateite crystals with blue gelosaite on smoky quartz. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 160 images. Click on the image below for a...
Crystalline gold with galena and possibly other sulphides on quartz. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale greenish-yellow tufts of kidwellite with pale purple strengite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. White nodule 19mm wide. Ex John and Betty Weir.
Monchiquite – a rare basic rock that has analcime instead of feldspar. From No. 12 Level (1086 feet).
Very pale tufts of kidwellite with greenish-yellow cyrilovite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silky kidwellite on dark green dufrenite. Green spheres of chalcosiderite? Yellow-green hinsdalite. Colourless prismatic pyromorphite? Blue-green tsumebite not in photo. Ex Pat Sutton Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the...
Sprays of dark red kermesite on black stibnite. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red kermesite with silver paradocrasite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny pale greenish-yellow crystal sprays. Ex Michael Hirst. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow bladed crystals. Ex Ian Everard. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale yellow sprays of flat bladed crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-green brochantite with yellow kasolite, brown andradite, and yellow-green mottramite(?), Green Parrot Mine, Jervois Range, Northern Territory. Below: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Below: Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images....
Tiny yellow crystals. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Golden fibrous crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Golden matted fibres, with some pseudomorphing to goethite. Ex Vince Peisley. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown topaz crystals embedded in white kaolinite on the side of a quartz crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny gold crystals on/in grey kaolinite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cream to white kaolinite cementing broken quartz pieces and pearly mica flakes. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White tufts of kaolinite on blue chrysocolla. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White kaolinite on dark green segnitite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A complete replacement of smithsonite by creamy white kaolinite. Olive-green chlorargyrite crystals also present. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-grey kaolinite completely covering goethite stalactites. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width 32mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Kaolinite matrix hosting (and being replaced by?) grey tenorite. Ex Diederik Visser. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bright green acicular kambaldaite crystals on duller green gaspéite. In the vugh on the right, the kambaldaite looks like it is overgrown by gypsum crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on...
Type locality for widgiemoolthalite. Kambaldaite as bright green crystals(!) with pale bluish spheres of widgiemoolthalite on green gaspeite. From Westaus Mineral Museum (Blair Gartrell). Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the...
Lustrous black kaersutite in a basaltic matrix. Ex Ruth Coulsell. Specimen measures 33mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Many loose crystals and fragments. In photo largest is 18mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single loose crystal. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black phenocrysts embedded in matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Balls of deep pink erythrite crystals, many bent, with pale pink glassy mansfieldite and black heterogenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a...
Tarnished curved crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A hackly piece of gold in quartz. From the Yarrowee River. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
From the 700 Level. Type Locality. Metallic light grey patches of junoite in bismuthinite(?) matrix. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Silver lamellar mass without matrix. Ex Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark crystals on galena with a couple of spessartine garnets. Measures 21mm wide. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Probably Mn-rich hedenbergite. Green crystals with pink to brown bustamite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black jeppeite with brown resinous priderite in a matrix containing celadonite. Type Locality for both jeppeite and priderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below...
Yellow crystalline material from within a quartz vein. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown crystals in a cavity. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 10 and 70 images. Matrix in one small area shows a dull green fluorescence under shortwave UV. Ex Jo Price Collection. Click on the...
Brown crystals in cavities in quartz. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow crystalline aggregates of jarosite with minor colourless gypsum crystals on a goethite matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow, orange and brown jarosite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny orange-brown jarosite crystals on botryoidal iridescent goethite. Ex John Carey. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny brown crystals of jarosite with bluish-green gahnite, and unknown pale yellow, in quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Type Locality. Reddish brown aggregates. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange crystals of jahnsite with black natrodufrenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous jacobsite modified octahedrons. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Jacobsite crystals on typical hematite matrix. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black modified octahedral crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Jacobsite grains with mixed sulphides. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. 45mm wide.
Black massive ixiolite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Isoclasite intermixed with fluorapatite. Ex Gunnar Farber. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Christmas Island phosphate minerals reference.
Black opaque and brown resinous mineral with possible samarskite, and a small amount of fluorescent autunite? A titanite crystal is embedded in the matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the...
A piece of the Henbury meteorite measuring 28x25x18mm.
Fibrous yellow sprays. Also present is a bright yellow fluorescent mineral, possibly autunite. Ex Frank Radke. Ex Sue Koepke collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a...
Osmiridium grains. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded grains of osmiridium with sharp black crystals of chromite collected by Rusty Morley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as osmiridium (now determined to be iridium, as silver grains with hexagonal plates (which are most likely osmium)). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Width of view 6mm. Stack of...
Lamellar vein in lizardite with metallic pentlandite and purple woodallite blebs. Ex Ben Grguric. Specimen measures 55x47x30mm.
Purple woodallite. A vein of iowaite altering to pale pyroaurite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images.
Yellow-green bromium chlorargyrite (“embolite”) on white “snail trail” iodargyrite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale-coloured crystals, some clearly showing hexagonal habit. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single 6mm long pinkish-brown transparent crystal without matrix. Interesting “inclusions”. Towards the bottom are things that look a bit like hexagonal wire fencing that we have used in the past around vegetable gardens an...
Pale yellow-green autunite crystals (that fluoresce strongly) with cores of blue-green torbernite. The autunite has probably grown epitaxially on the torbernite. Ex Rod Martin. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the...
Colourless hexagonal tabular plates of levyne on rounded crystalline aggregates of thomsonite (eg: bottom of photo) and chabazite (eg: top of photo). Also present is what looks like a tiny analcime crystal on one of...
A lot going on with this specimen. Silver thin ilmenite plates formed first and were then coated with phillipsite-Na and chabazite-Na crystals. You can see the ilmenite where there are broken areas. Then later, a...
Glossy black pieces of ilmenite collected by Judy Rowe from beach sands on the shore of Lake Bullenmerri. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Partially clay encrusted ilmenite with augite and fluorescent calcite. There is a bunch of apatite needles on the top right corner of the ilmenite. Ex Margaret Brown. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images....
Four pieces. Photo shows ilmenite on augite. Also present andesine and hedenbergite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images.
A sharp ilmenite crystal in a cavity lined with sanidine crystals. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 14 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small green titanite with darker green actinolite and black ilmenite of orange stilbite-Ca. Specimen measures 39x30x14mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thick platy crystals of ilmenite with interesting surface features, and a couple of quartz crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded zircons, mostly orange, but also pale pink, with black ilmenite, and a few colourless quartz crystals, from sands at Byron Bay. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1968. Width of view 6mm....
Black mass of crystalline material embedded in matrix. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A red prismatic pseudobrookite embedded in chabazite. Ex Margaret Graham. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black magnetite octahedra, some with traces of chlorite on their faces. Some magnetite crystals are completely encased in chlorite. Blocky orthoclase crystals form part of the cavity lining. Brown sheaf or club-shaped siderite, yellow hexagonal...
Two pieces. Colourless twinned phillipsite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rhombohedral siderite (after calcite?), chabazite-Na (herschelite), and a needle of apatite with orange chlorite grown on it (in front of siderite). Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for...
Octahedral magnetite crystals with yellowish chabazite and dark brown siderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White zoned barite with dark brown siderite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 31 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin white bladed stacked crystals. Ex Trevor Hosking, collected in 1995. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Chabazite-Na and an apatite needle in a vugh in andesite. An opalescent effect is produced by the larger crystal lying flat in the vugh with only one face exposed. The surface has a slightly matt...
Dark brown spherical siderite with colourless orthoclase lining the vugh. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as apatite but I think the long prismatic crystal is gypsum. The termination is wrong for apatite. There is greenish-brown chlorite and a brown siderite with a hollow core, left hand side of the...
Pale yellow hexagonal chabazite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. The second photo was taken by Judy Rowe and uploaded to Mindat in 2009. It would have been a single shot, not...
Yellow and colourless hexagonal chabazite crystals with minor colourless orthoclase and brown siderite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Three colourless analcime crystals isolated the rest, with smaller rounded brown siderites, and one chabazite crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A colourless gypsum crystal with white hexagonal chabazite. Unsure what the hollowed out crystal is/was (bottom left of photo). The yellow needles are possibly iron-stained or replaced apatite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50...
Unidentified white mineral (possibly thomsonite?) in analcime. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A jumble of intense red mostly terminated crocoite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A crystalline mass of native arsenic showing some individual trigonal crystals. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless rounded aggregate of hydroxylapatite with thin sword-shaped colourless scholzite crystals, and unidentified green mineral (plimerite?). Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Colourless hexagonal prisms and bowties of hydroxylapatite. Monoclinic tiny thin platy crystals of colourless montgomeryite (eg: top right of photo). The larger colourless crystals are possibly collinsite. White balls of crandallite. Ex Jo Price Collection....
Blocky colourless crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single white crystal of hydroxyapophyllite, with a few colourless needles of natrolite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless to white hydromagnesite crystals on serpentine. Specimen measures 90x55x45mm. Close up photo width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
A ball of crystals of hydromagnesite with white pearly dypingite. Specimen Measures 60x40x15mm. Closeup photo width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny colourless but mostly iron-stained crystals on a goethite matrix. Ex Vince Peisley. Identified for Vince by Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Yellow crystals in a vugh in ferberite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow aggregates of hydrohonessite on green gaspéite, some of which is coated by gypsum. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
An aggregate of fibrous purple crystals. Specimen measures 42mm wide.
Tiny purple crystals on larger black crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White alteration coating of hydroglauberite on glauberite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A brown scheelite crystal with white calcite on silvery black hübnerite. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A very rich specimen of tan coloured marshite that fluoresces bright red, with pale blue aurichalcite and green smithsonite. Ex Peter Hall. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images (white...
A small patch of gold on quartz matrix. Ex Don McColl. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow scalenohedral crystal groups of beudantite-segnitite, with dark red carminite needles. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A group of calcite crystals on a calcite ball in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Bluish-white fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 34 images...
A group of dark calcite crystals that show zoning under longwave ultraviolet light in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 56 images (whitelight),...
A steeply-terminated calcite crystal with a dark core in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. The main calcite crystal fluoresces orange under longwave ultraviolet light. A second partial brown calcite fluoresces bright white....
Dark brown hemispheres of hollandite. In front of the hollandite are corroded hollowed out hedyphane crystals. Ex Jack and Dawn Leach Collection. Ex Gordon Jackson Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click...
Cuprian tarbuttite with green beudantite and green coatings and crystals of hinsdalite.. Collected by Joan Lamond in 1999 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click...
Green corkite-hinsdalite on colourless pyromorphite with white scholzite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Collected by Joan on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip in 1991. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images....
Tiny pale hillite crystals on scholzite with purplish hemispheres of collinsite. Tiny green balls of plimerite are also present. Type Locality for hillite. Ex Joan Lamond specimen 3823. Joan acquired it from a Whyalla tailgater...
Olive-green micro crystals of hidalgoite on/after mimetite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale greenish-yellow cerussite crystals showing signs of reticulated twinning. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink acicular sprays of erythrite and minor pale purple mansfieldite on black heterogenite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black heterogenite coated by crystalline mansfieldite (coloured pink by cobalt). Pink erythrite (not in photo) and minor yellow smolyaninovite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Lustrous black horizontally striated crystals with steep terminations. Analysed by Peter Elliott. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black hemispheres of henschelite. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red-fluorescing calcite crystals with minor heulandite (pictured) and barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless and amber-coloured crystals of heulandite. The latter presumably through colour transmitted from the matrix? Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A cavity lined with heulandite crystals ranging in colour from yellow-orange through to orange-red. Some crystals have colourless zones. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A selection of some of a lot of 29 micrometeorites hand sorted by the late Judy Rowe from alluvial concentrates. Judy hand sorted anatase, zircon, maghemite, and other minerals. One of the micrometeorites (just above...
Pink fluorescing scalenohedral calcite crystals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A bed of natrolite needles on phillipsite with a few small calcite crystals. There are a couple of even smaller highly lustrous chabazite crystals perched on natrolite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 135 images....
A selection of dull greyish-blue anatase crystals from Carapooee, showing the common dipyramidal forms. There is some abrasion and iron-staining. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a...
Prismatic natrolite on analcime crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Crystal clear twinned phillipsite showing the interesting nontronite background. A couple of long thin erionite crystals also present. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
An arch comprised of mostly chabazite crystals with a small amount of bladed thomsonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Natrolite prisms growing from the base of bladed thomsonite. At first, I thought that the natrolite terminations were coated in hyalite opal, with that typical blobby look. But when you look down on the terminations,...
Not sure of the chemistry here, but it appears to be pyrite altered to goethite, then partially altering to hematite. Or possibly the other way round. All with a bit of relict quartz. Ex Jo...
White hexagonal hedyphane crystals that fluoresces orange, with yellow-green prismatic austinite crystals. Minor calcite, more evident in the UV photo. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images (white light) and 16 images (UV). Click...
Pseudo-octahedral grey crystals of hausmannite. Ex Leon Schmidt. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bladed hausmannite looking like hematite with brown calcite. Ex Barry Schubert Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Grungy brown coating of hausmannite over alabandite. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Older photo…
Dark green to black hastingsite with purple fluorite and calcite that fluoresces orange. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Three pieces. Photo shows red-violet hardystonite(?), orange-red sphalerite, greenish-yellow smithsonite(?) and unknown bluish-white mineral. Longwave ultraviolet light. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 22 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
Twinned harmotome, including “drill bit” habit. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An aesthetic and really interesting specimen. Four well-formed cuprite crystals with tiny green brochantite crystals and blue connellite puffballs, sitting on a bed of white smithsonite stained by goethite. Then under longwave UV, you can...
Tiny tan crystals from the Type Locality. Width of view 7.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fibrous white halotrichite with orange-red botryogen. The small yellow areas are possibly melanterite, or another sulphate. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a...
An efflorescence in a gel capsule. White halotrichite and pale yellow melanterite. Identified by Ralph Bottrill. Width of view 7.25mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny white areas of halloysite on dark green atacamite. Ex Mal Annells Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin orange plates of wulfenite with yellow-green rounded pyromorphite, and tiny sharp olive-green fornacite crystals on bluish-white halloysite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below...
A close up photo of the specimen Judy Rowe uploaded to Mindat in 2014 (https://www.mindat.org/photo-615149.html). The pink colour has disappeared. That is because it is caused by a bacteria, and that bacteria has gone on...
Colourless hoppered halite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
White (was very pale pink) partially dissolved halite, highly fluorescent white. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Better-known for its green gypsum, this locality also occasionally produces little surprises like this one. Halite cubes perched on the termination of a gypsum crystal. Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Height of view 9.7mm. Stack...
A cluster of colourless to white cubes. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Crude cubes of halite found on the protected underside of a piece of broken crockery at a location known as “Treasure Beach”. Here, broken crockery and glass had been dumped in the early days of...
Colourless cubes with a slightly melted look. Width of view 14.4mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A classic and really cute example of epitaxy. Chalcopyrite epitaxial on a sphalerite crystal. And to add to the cuteness, there are some tiny tetrahedrite crystals bottom left of photo. Width of view 6mm. Stack...
Colourless, pale blue and pale green fluorapatite. Dark brownish-red andradite. Dark green diopside. Brownish black allanite-(Ce), variety bagrationite. Ex Costas Constantinides. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
White albite growing epitaxially on orange orthoclase with smoky quartz. Width of view 6mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny sprays of post-mining gypsum crystals collected on the dumps. Look closely and you can some fishtail twins (eg: near the centre of the photo). Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on...
Prismatic colourless crystals of gypsum. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Interpenetrant gypsum crystals. Collected during roadworks. Largest crystal is 27mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Gypsum crystals on secondary copper mineral (chrysocolla?). Ex Lesley and Doug Ball Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A brownish-grey gypsum rose with a white UV reaction. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Margaret purchased this specimen in 1983 in Broken Hill. Labelled simply Maryborough, Queensland. There is some doubt that it may not be...
Colourless gypsum crystals with a white granular coating. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cream ball of gyrolite with white tacharanite on colourless phillipsite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Elongated orange-brown grossular garnet. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange grossular (hessonite) garnets. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny off-white scheelite crystals (not in photo) and pale green grossular garnets. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive-green crystal of grossular garnet. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small grey-green grossular garnets with white wollastonite and yellow-orange vesuvianite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olivine-green crude crystals of grossular embedded in magnetite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown grossular garnet with blue chrysocolla. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small quartz crystals on olive-green to brown grossular garnets. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green chrome-rich grossular garnet crystals. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An aesthetic parallel growth of copper crystals. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of specimen 7mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution verion.
Multiple generations of calcite with siderite, and some of the calcite fluoresces strongly red. One habit is white “Christmas trees”. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a...
A nice group of bournonite crystals perched on brassy arsenopyrite and dark sphalerite crystals. Quartz crystals on specimen but not in photo. Height of view 5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below...
A single sharp green libethenite crystal with a spray of lighter green ulrichite, on a bed of green chalcosiderite crystals. Height of view 2.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a...
Tiny colourless crystalline balls of variscite. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Platy green crystals on smoky quartz. Most are much thinner than the one in the photo. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Natrolite perched on other natrolite crystals, on analcime. Red gmelinite coloured by hematite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White “snowflakes” with grey centres. Ex Dick Dufton. Width of view 8mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous red pseudobrookite crystals with yellow transparent enstatite crystals. The lustre is so good you can clearly see the reflections of other crystals. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 40 images....
Lustrous dark brown pseudobrookite crystals with yellow transparent enstatite crystals. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 6.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous brown pseudobrookite crystals with yellow transparent enstatite crystals. One very thin apatite needle is also present. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for...
Lustrous brown pseudobrookite crystals with tiny yellow transparent enstatite crystals. The larger pseudobrookite crystal has a slight “bend” in it. Hematite is out of view of this photo. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view...
Dark red prismatic carminite with yellow-green beudantite-segnitite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 18 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A twinned yellow crystal on gossan. There looks to be a possible arsenopyrite crystal that perhaps the cerussite seeded on. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a...
Red parallel growth realgar with tiny orange orpiment patches. Ex Trevor Hocking. Width of view 6.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green partial coating on sphalerite crystals on dolomite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Off white fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet may be calcite partially coating dolomite. Click on the image below for a...
Purplish-grey grimaldiite in a crocoite vugh. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow exsolution of greenockite-hawleyite on sphalerite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenockite as a yellow coating/exsolution on sphalerite crystals. Some tiny orange crystals of greenockite evident particularly in the bottom left-hand quadrant (zoom in to explore). Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on...
A small fragment of goslarite showing some tiny crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A small spray of graphite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fragments of nodules analysed as containing goyazite, hematite and apatite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 30 images.
Iridescent siderite with hexagonal chabazite-Na crystals. Also present very thin long apatite needles. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of sulphur crystals with globular hyalite opal. Width of view 7.75mm wide. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated hoppered crystal of sulphur 14.5mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharply-terminated crystal of sulphur with interesting growth patterns 11.5mm tall, no matrix. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated “herringbone” crystal of sulphur 16.5mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated hoppered group of crystals of sulphur 17.25mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated hoppered crystal of sulphur 22mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny group of sulphur crystals on sinter. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orthorhombic crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Beads of hyalite on sinter. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny group of sulphur crystals on sinter. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Filiform pyrite with a few right angle bends. Also present is a brown chlorite(?). Both sit on two generations of calcite crystals, the first colourless, the second golden. Ex Brent Torrens. Width of view 3mm....
A radial cluster of pyrite crystals that have grown in a tight area. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 8mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Spherical brown siderite on heulandite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless to white tabular heulandite crystals with colourless sprays of gypsum. The heulandite crystals have dark blue cores giving the crystals a bluish hue. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the...
Tiny transparent crystals. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
From the mine best known for its crocoite comes a rarer occurrence, zoned mimetite crystals. There are interesting rounded surface features too. Probably where the mimetite was attached to ferro-manganese oxides. Hexagonal prisms of zoned...
A group of cube-octahedral galena crystals with hoppered faces. Width of view 8mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive green cubes partially coated by goethite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A mass of acicular metallic wires on quartz. Ex John Haupt. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Iridescent stannite, no crystals. Ex David J. Eicher Collection, Wisconsin. Ex John H. Eicher Collection. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Transparent green hexagonal prisms, some zoned. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
My first ever mineral specimen. I found this panning Anderson’s Creek in 1980 and it is still in my collection. Although the ‘nugget’ is only 2.5mm on its longest dimension, it is cute and reminds...
Yellow crystals in a variety of habits. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acicular intergrowth of white gonnardite-natrolite on grey botryoidal thomsonite-Ca. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale fluorite over earlier darker fluorite with iron stained quartz crystals. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 92 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hexagonal crystal of molybdenite. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cassiterite in greisen. Collected in 1971. Specimen measures 80x55x35mm.
A waterworn bluish topaz 24mm wide.
A small gold nugget. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan from Peter Cole for $6 in 1987. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Two small rounded nuggets. Width of view 18mm. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin gold patches smeared on hematite matrix. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small patches of gold in ironstone matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1996 from John Toma. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Leaf gold with an embedded quartz crystal. Ex Brian Shelton. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin leaf gold in quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny bit of gold in matrix (centre of image). Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dendritic crystalline gold. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as Union Mine, included in Golden Gully Area in Mindat. Thin hackly leaf gold in quartz. Ex D.J. Parsons Collection, Rapid City, South Dakota. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 49 images. Click on...
