ncat JR12 Levyne-Ca, Erionite, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
Thin plates of levyne with silky overgrowth of erionite. Ex Judy Rowe. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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0617 Chabazite, Levyne-Na, ‘Pyrolusite’, Erionite, Sunderland Bluff, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Orange rhombohedral chabazite on hexagonal crystals of levyne. Black “pyrolusite” balls are sprinkled around. Erionite is evident as a very thin coating of levyne, obvious when you look at the broken crystals. Width of view...
ncat JP892 Levyne, Erionite-Na, Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Silky fibrous erionite growing epitaxially on thin levyne crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR12 Levyne, Chabazite, Road metal quarry, Howitt Plains, Wellington Shire, Victoria
Unusually blocky levyne crystals with lustrous chabazite perched on them. Ex Roger Colling. Ex Judy Rowe. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD107 Levyne, Phillipsite, Chabazite, Upper May Plain, near Cradle Mountain, Tasmania
Thin hexagonal plates of levyne. Nearby cavities have phillipsite or chabazite. Ex Mat Latham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0697 Levyne-Ca, Thomsonite-Ca, Erionite, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
Thin blades of levyne with a silky overgrowth of erionite. Thomsonite in nearby cavity. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD202 Levyne, Erionite, Thomsonite-Ca, Laidley Creek, Gatton Valley, Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland
White hexagonal levyne crystals with overgrowth of erionite. Broken surfaces show the silky nature. White balls of thomsonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat JP2551 Leucophosphite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Aggregates of pink and green bladed crystals of leucophosphite. The colours are probably being transmitted from the underlying material. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image...
ncat RD Diopside, Fluorapatite, Nepheline, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Leucite, Sanidine, Biotite, Clinopyroxene, Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
(Photo) Leucite as grey-white material in groundmass (“leucitite”). Elsewhere on specimen: Green prismatic diopside. Brown-black prismatic clinopyroxene. Nepheline as hexagonal prisms. Nepheline with hollow cores have been altered to analcime. Colourless needles of fluorapatite. Grey...
9075 JP2812 Lepidocrocite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Bladed crystals with a reddish tinge. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0986 Lepidocrocite, Anglesite, Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania
Reddish brown lepidocrocite on grey anglesite crystals. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW103 Lepidocrocite, Goethite, Tom’s Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia
Blocky reddish lepidocrocite crystals on a goethite matrix. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat BDAU M3073 Lepidocrocite, Rosasite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Lustrous black bladed crystals with blue rosasite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR9 Analcime, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Pale yellow clay(?) coating on analcime. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR9 Analcime, Calcite, Middlehurst Station, Marlborough Region, New Zealand
Ragged white calcite on red-white analcime crystals. The calcite fluoresces bright white. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1811 Leadhillite, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Colourless hexagonal plates in slag. Ex Jo Price Collection. White light photo: Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Longwave UV photo: Width of view 3mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image...
ncat ER6 Zircon, Lazulite, Scorzalite, Unnamed phosphate occurrence, Mount Perry, North Burnett Region, Queensland
Blue veins of lazulite/scorzalite with small zircons. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2-24-2 Lazulite, Tepko, Mid Murray Council, South Australia
Blue crystals in a granite pegmatite matrix. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1331 Minium, Fluorite, Pyromorphite, Hydrocerussite/Laurionite, Avondale Mine, Lyndhurst, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Colourless fluorite that fluoresces zoned green under medium and shortwave, with minium under fluorite (not in photo). Hydrocerussite/laurionite occurs as a creamy aggregate, pink and purple fluorescence under mediumwave, duller under shortwave. Tiny acicular pyromorphite...
ncat VHD4, Calcite, Stilbite, Laumontite, Pyrite, Graham Quarry, Kellow Road, Cosgrove, Victoria
Photo shows a white crystal of laumontite on calcite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4582 Hematite, Laumontite, Hazell Bros Leslie Vale quarry (HBMI), Leslie Vale, Kingborough municipality, Tasmania
Found in driveway gravel that was known to have come from the quarry. White flat-laying crystals of laumontite that fluoresces bluish-purple (best under medium wave) with small hematite crystals. Width of view 9mm and stack...
1876 Chabazite, Stilbite, Laumontite, Hazell Bros Leslie Vale quarry (HBMI), Leslie Vale, Kingborough municipality, Tasmania
White (dehydrating) laumontite with colourless chabazite and stilbite. The laumontite is very unstable, and unfortunately not only breaks down itself, but also the matrix. Photo widths 6mm. Stack of 45 images (laumontite) and 65 images...
3934 Stellerite, Laumontite, Tambar Springs, Pottinger Co., New South Wales
Ex Hetty’s Rockshop, Christchurch, New Zealand, 9/2004. White laumontite on orange stellerite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5575 Lead, Laumontite, Southern operations mine (Pasminco mine; Perilya mine; Consolidated Zinc Mine; CRA mine; New Broken Hill Consolidated Mine; NBHC Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
From Level 16, NBHC. See https://rruff.info/uploads/CM46_73.pdf. Laumontite fluoresces blue under LWUV. Laumontite photo: First image: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Second image: Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on...
ncat YA Pyromorphite, Langite, Blackwood Open Cut, MMM Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Deep blue crystalline coating in corroded galena. Also present light blue caledonite(?), and prismatic pyromorphite. Other species also present (eg: spessartine, chlorargyrite). Ex Mal Annear collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click...
2336 Langite, Dundas, Tasmania
A mass of blue crystals on a small piece of matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4359 Langite, Mt. Malvern, near Clarendon, Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Ian Hammond Collection. Tiny light blue crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat TJ2 Linarite, Langite, Anglesite, Paddy’s River Mine, Paddy’s River District, Australian Capital Territory
Prismatic blue linarite (not in photo) with blocky blue crystals of langite, and white crystals of anglesite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1419 Pyrite in Chabazite, Queen Mary’s Falls National Park, Killarney, Southern Downs Region, Queensland
Originally labelled as gmelinite, but looks much more like re-entrant chabazite twins. Chabazite is the only zeolite mentioned from the location too. Interesting surface features and reflections. There are tiny pyrite crystal included. Ex Ian...
ncat OW102 Gmelinite-Na, Analcime, Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Closeup photo of a relatively thin platy etched/resorbed gmelinite crystals coloured red by iron oxides or hydroxides, with sharp crystals of analcime. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below...
ncat JR1 Kyanite, Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
Single crystal sorted by Judy Rowe from heavy mineral concentrates. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW309 Kutnohorite, Dolomite, Calcite, North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Grey rhombs of dolomite that fluoresce white are perched on the tips of kutnohorite sprays. Red fluorescing calcite present in the matrix. Patchy yellow fluorescence is probably cerussite. Specimen measures 80x65x10mm.
2462 Kutnohorite, 10 Level, South Workings, Rosebery, Tasmania
Cream kutnohorite with pyrite on a quartz matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat EA4 Kutnohorite, Quartz, Pyrite, Calcite, North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Groups of typical kutnohorite with quartz and a little pyrite, all on a matrix of pale pink fluorescent manganoan calcite. Specimen measures 60x40x20mm.
ncat OW106 M46 Quartz, Calcite, Pyrite, Kutnohorite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Quartz crystals and a couple of fluorescent red calcite crystals on a spray of kutnohorite. There are pyrite crystals included in the quartz, as well as on the quartz and on the kutnohorite, some of...
ncat WD212 2659 Kutnohorite, Quartz, Pyrite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Pale crystals of kutnohorite on quartz with pyrite, all on a bed of fluorescent Mn-calcite. Specimen measures 4×5.5cm. Ex W.F. Davidson Collection. Ex Ralph Merrill Collection. Close up photo: Width of view 6mm. Stack of...
0835 Kunatite, Turquoise/Chalcosiderite, Torbernite, Albite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Greenish-yellow balls of kunatite (previously Unknown Cu Fe Phosphate), with blue-green balls of turquoise/chalcosiderite, a square-shaped torbernite crystal, and some unidentified darker green balls (pseudomalachite?), all on albite, orthoclase and smoky quartz. Collected by John...
5124 Ktenasite, Brochantite, Cerussite, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
ncat WD202 Gordaite, Ktenasite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat NOVM Köttigite, Penguin Mine (Penguin silver mine), Penguin, Central Coast municipality, Tasmania
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...
ncat NOVM Köttigite, Penguin Mine (Penguin silver mine), Penguin, Central Coast municipality, Tasmania
Pink cobalt and nickel-bearing köttigite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat TH Kornerupine, Whites Dam Area, Harts Range, Northern Territory
Terminated crystal in schistose biotite granulite. Specimen measures 90x75x50mm.
ncat YB Kornerupine, Mount Riddock Station, Harts Range, Northern Territory
A kornerupine crystal in matrix, with a smaller one at the back. Specimen measures 47x28x25mm.
ncat TA4 Kornerupine, Harts Range, Northern Territory
A crystal fragment 23mm wide.
2624 Chalcanthite, East Pit (Triako open cut; Eastern crosscut), Mineral Hill field, Condobolin district, Kennedy Co., New South Wales
Pale blue crystals, post-mining occurrence. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images.
9082 JP2789 Koechlinite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
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.
9051 JP2199 Koechlinite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
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.
2456 Koechlinite, Little Bygoo group mines, Ardlethan, Bourke Co., New South Wales
Greenish-yellow masses. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR1 Kleemanite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
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.
2759 Kleemanite, Smithsonite, Linarite, Cerussite, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
8086 Kipushite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat OW106 M442 Kintoreite, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Type Locality. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD202 Kintoreite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat ANK KG24 Gelosaite, Kingsgateite, Smoky Quartz, Old 25 Pipe (Pipe No. 14), Kingsgate, Gough Co., New South Wales
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...
ncat ANK KG23 Gelosaite, Kingsgateite, Smoky Quartz, Old 25 Pipe (Pipe No. 14), Kingsgate, Gough Co., New South Wales
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...
ncat VHD15 Gold, Galena, Wattle Gully Gold Mine, Chewton, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat JP Kidwellite, Strengite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
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.
1717 Kingite, Fairview Quarry, Robertstown, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Type Locality. White nodule 19mm wide. Ex John and Betty Weir.
ncat OW102 Analcime, Wattle Gully Gold Mine, Chewton, Victoria
Monchiquite – a rare basic rock that has analcime instead of feldspar. From No. 12 Level (1086 feet).
0277 Kidwellite, Cyrilovite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
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.
2621 Kidwellite, Tsumebite, Dufrenite, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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...
ncat JR1 Kermesite, Stibnite, Hillgrove, Sandon Co., New South Wales
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.
2270 Paradocrasite, Kermesite, Consols Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Red kermesite with silver paradocrasite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR3 Uranophane, Kasolite, Wild Dog Uranium Mine, Myponga, District Council of Yankalilla, South Australia
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.
ncat NOVM Kasolite, British Empire Mine, Mawson Plateau – Paralana Hot Springs area, Arkaroola Region, South Australia
Yellow bladed crystals. Ex Ian Everard. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD109 Kasolite, British Empire Mine, Mawson Plateau – Paralana Hot Springs area, Arkaroola Region, South Australia
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.
ncat VHD4 M3787 Kasolite, Brochantite, Andradite, Mottramite, Green Parrot Mine, Jervois Range, Jervois Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory
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....
ncat RAM4 CW26 Kasolite, El Sherana mine, South Alligator River, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory
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.
ncat JP3529 Kapundaite, Tom’s Quarry, Koonunga, Kapunda, Light Regional Council, South Australia
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.
ncat OW103 Kapundaite, Tom’s Quarry, Koonunga, Kapunda, Light Regional Council, South Australia
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.
3295 Quartz, Topaz, Kaolinite, Dolcoath Hill Quarry (Moina Quarry), Moina – Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania
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.
5162 JL0236 Gold, Kaolinite, Messenger’s Patch gold area, Wadgingarra Goldfield, Yalgoo Shire, Western Australia
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.
ncat OW203 Kaolinite, Imerys Australian Kaolin Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat GLEE Chrysocolla, Kaolinite, Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
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.
ncat AU006 Kaolinite, Segnitite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
White kaolinite on dark green segnitite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1041 Kaolinite after Smithsonite, Chlorargyrite (Bromian), Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat ZZ Kaolinite, Goethite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Bluish-grey kaolinite completely covering goethite stalactites. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width 32mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4271 Tenorite, Kaolinite, Cadia, Bathurst Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat JR1 Kambaldaite, Gaspéite, Gypsum, Otter Shoot Nickel Mine, Juan complex, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
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...
6029 Kambaldaite, Widgiemoolthalite, Gaspeite, 132 North Mine, Widgiemooltha, Western Australia
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...
ncat JR2 Kaersutite, West Head, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Lustrous black kaersutite in a basaltic matrix. Ex Ruth Coulsell. Specimen measures 33mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR1 Kaersutite, Lake Bullen Merri (Bullenmerri), Camperdown, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
Many loose crystals and fragments. In photo largest is 18mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5143 Kaersutite, Lake Bullen Merri (Bullenmerri), Camperdown, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
A single loose crystal. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5084 Kaersutite, Brownes Road, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
A single crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2466 Kaersutite, Ringarooma United Mine, Alberton, Dorset municipality, Tasmania
Black phenocrysts embedded in matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2-24-2 B791 Erythrite, Mansfieldite, Heterogenite, Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
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...
9125 JP2659 Jamesonite, Hillgrove, Sandon Co., New South Wales
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.
5832 Gold, Sebastopol, City of Ballarat, Victoria
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.
ncat OW202 Junoite, 700 Level, Juno Mine, Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory
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...
4053 Joséite, Whipstick Mine, Wyndham, Auckland Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat JP3015 Johannsenite, Spessartine, Galena, North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Dark crystals on galena with a couple of spessartine garnets. Measures 21mm wide. Ex Jo Price Collection.
0820 Hedenbergite, Bustamite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
ncat JP1052 Priderite, Jeppeite, Walgidee Hills, Noonkanbah Station, Derby-West Kimberley Shire, Western Australia
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...
2210 Jarosite, King Hill gold mine, Cygnet district, Huon-Channel region, Huon Valley municipality, Tasmania
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.
ncat JP449 Jarosite, Old Boolcoomata Station, Olary Province, South Australia
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...
ncat WD201 Jarosite, Quartz, New Luxemburg Mine, Radium Hill area, Olary Province, South Australia
Brown crystals in cavities in quartz. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat MAR03 493 Jarosite, Gypsum, Goethite, Arno Bay Mine (Windittie Mine), Cleve, District Council of Cleve, South Australia
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.
2000 Jarosite, Mount Brockman, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia
Yellow, orange and brown jarosite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4470 Jarosite, Goethite, Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
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.
ncat JP1993 Jarosite, Gahnite, Southern Cross Mine, Northern Broken Hill Block, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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...
ncat WD203 Jahnsite-(CaFeMg), Tom’s Quarry, Koonunga, Light Regional Council, South Australia 3mm 30 2k
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.
ncat JP3632 Jahnsite-(CaFeMg), Natrodufrénite, Tom’s Phosphate quarry, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
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.
2042 Jacobsite, Iron Monarch, Iron Knob, South Australia
Lustrous jacobsite modified octahedrons. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VH365 Jacobsite, Iron Monarch Mine, Iron Knob, South Australia
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.
ncat VH364 Jacobsite, Iron Monarch Mine, Iron Knob, South Australia
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.
3042 RI Jacobsite, Zinc Corp Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Jacobsite grains with mixed sulphides. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. 45mm wide.
ncat JP3052 Ixiolite, Londonderry Li deposit (Londonderry Feldspar Quarry; Fraser’s Find; Frazer’s Find; Scahill’s Quarry), Nepean, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
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.
5239 Isoclasite, Fluorapatite, South Point, Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island
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.
ncat JP2-24-2 Ishikawaite, Titanite, Mount Painter No. 2 workings, Mt Painter area, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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...
3385 Kamacite (in meteorite), Taenite, Troilite, Lawrencite, Henbury, Northern Territory
A piece of the Henbury meteorite measuring 28x25x18mm.
ncat MARXX Iriginite, Ben Lomond Mine, Charters Towers Region, Queensland
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...
ncat OW403 Osmiridium, Iridium, Osmium, Bald Hill osmiridium field, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Osmiridium grains. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD105 “Osmiridium”, Osmium, Iridium, Chromite, Adamsfield, Derwent Valley municipality, Tasmania
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.
6087 Osmium, Iridium, Fifield, Kennedy Co., New South Wales
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...
ncat FEB01 Iowaite, Pentlandite, Woodallite, Stage D Pit, Mount Keith Mine, Western Australia
Lamellar vein in lizardite with metallic pentlandite and purple woodallite blebs. Ex Ben Grguric. Specimen measures 55x47x30mm.
ncat VHD11 Woodallite, Iowaite, Pyroaurite, Mount Keith Open Cut, Mount Keith, Western Australia
Purple woodallite. A vein of iowaite altering to pale pyroaurite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images.
ncat AU006 Iodargyrite, Chlorargyrite, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
0060 Iodargyrite, Kintore Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
2174 Inesite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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...
ncat 2RG Autunite, Torbernite, Hawks Crag, Westport, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand
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...
ncat JP1753 Levyne, Chabazite, Thomsonite, Gollans Bay Quarry, Lyttelton, Banks Peninsula, Christchurch City, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
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...
ncat OW109 Chabazite-Na, Thomsonite-Ca, Phillipsite-Na, Ilmenite, Bundoora, Victoria
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...
2777 Ilmenite, Lake Bullen Merri (Bullenmerri), Camperdown, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
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...
ncat NOVM Calcite, Augite, Ilmenite, Apatite, Portland Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Sir William Grant, Portland, Glenelg Shire, Victoria
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....
ncat AU001 Hyalite Opal, Ilmenite, Augite, Hedenbergite, Andesine, Alfredton, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Four pieces. Photo shows ilmenite on augite. Also present andesine and hedenbergite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images.
0131 Ilmenite, Sanidine, Spring Hill, Macedon Ranges, Victoria
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.
ncat VHD3 Stilbite-Ca, Ilmenite, Titanite, Actinolite, Arkaroola Bore, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station), North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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.
0118 Ilmenite, Quartz, Mt Gee, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station), North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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.
ncat JLMAR02 JL399 Zircon, Ilmenite, Quartz, Byron Bay, Rous Co., New South Wales
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....
1763 Ilmenite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat JR8 Pseudobrookite, Chabazite-Ca, Aranga Quarry (Stone’s Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara District, Northland Region, New Zealand
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.
ncat JR2 G0W-NPG Magnetite, Chlorite, Siderite, Chabazite-Na, Orthoclase, Apatite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
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...
ncat JR10 Phillipsite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Two pieces. Colourless twinned phillipsite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0468 Siderite, Chabazite-Na, Chlorite, Apatite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
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...
ncat JP1597 Chabazite-Na, Siderite, Magnetite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
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.
0335 Barite, Siderite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
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.
ncat JR8 Barite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
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.
ncat JR8 EYG-CXD Chabazite-Na, Apatite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
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...
ncat JR3 Siderite, Orthoclase, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
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.
ncat JR3 WQ1-09C Gypsum, Siderite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
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...
ncat JR3 EA4-HAK Chabazite-Na, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
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...
ncat JR3 Chabazite-Na, Orthoclase, Siderite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
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.
0601 Analcime, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
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.
1272 Gypsum, Chabazite-Na (Herschelite), Bicker’s Quarry, Dargaville, North Island, New Zealand
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...
1273 Analcime, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
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.
1130 Crocoite, Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
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.
ncat JR2 Arsenic, New England arsenic, Clive, Clive Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat JR12 Hydroxylapatite, Scholzite, Reaphook Hill, Martins Well station, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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...
9092 JP2758 Montgomeryite, Hydroxylapatite, Crandallite, Collinsite?, Milgun Variscite Mine (Mount Deverell), Milgun Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia
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....
ncat JP886 Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Cape Grim, Cape Grim district, Circular Head municipality, Tasmania
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.
1662 Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Natrolite, Ardglen Quarry, Ardglen, Buckland Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat WD213 Hydromagnesite, Nickel Reward Mine, Trial Harbour district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
ncat OW210 Dypingite, Hydromagnesite, Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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.
ncat RD Hydrokenoralstonite, Goethite, Tom’s Quarry, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
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...
ncat JP3098 Hydrokenoelsmoreite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat JP3038 Hydrohonessite, Gaspéite, Gypsum, 132 North Ni Mine, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
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...
ncat WD117 Holmsquistite, Greenbushes Mine, Greenbushes Tinfield, Bridgetown-Greenbushes Shire, Western Australia
An aggregate of fibrous purple crystals. Specimen measures 42mm wide.
20127 VHD1 Holmsquistite, Greenbushes Mine, Greenbushes Tinfield, Bridgetown-Greenbushes Shire, Western Australia
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.
ncat OW201 Glauberite, Hydroglauberite, Lake Bumbunga, Lochiel, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
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.
2399 VHD5 Scheelite, Calcite, Hübnerite, Aberfoyle Mine, Rossarden mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania
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.
ncat WD205 M3626 Marshite, Aurichalcite, Smithsonite, Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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...
ncat PA24 Gold, Winnecke Goldfield, Georgina Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory
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.
ncat PA24 Carminite, Beudantite-Segnitite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat PA24 Calcite, Chabazite, Phillipsite, Ben Lomond, Hardinge Co., New South Wales
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...
ncat PA24 Calcite, Chabazite, Phillipsite, Ben Lomond, Hardinge Co., New South Wales
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),...
ncat PA24 Calcite, Chabazite, Phillipsite, Ben Lomond, Hardinge Co., New South Wales
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....
ncat WD109 Hollandite, Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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...
7348 JL3149 Tarbuttite, Beudantite, Hinsdalite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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...
4338 JL3150 Scholzite, Corkite-Hinsdalite, Pyromorphite, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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....
1205 JL3823 Hillite, Collinsite, Scholzite, Plimerite, Reaphook Hill, Martins Well, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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...
0363 Hidalgoite after Mimetite, Kintore Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
0445 Cerussite, Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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.
2133 Erythrite, Heterogenite, Mansfieldite, Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
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.
0954 Heterogenite, Mansfieldite (Cobaltian), Smolyaninovite after Erythrite, Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
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...
5122 Hetaerolite, Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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.
ncat GLEE Hentschelite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
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.
2814 Calcite, Barite, Heulandite, Red Bluff, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat BDMAR01 M1423-3 Heulandite, Overburden Dump, Mary Kathleen Mine, Mary Kathleen district, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
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...
0648 Heulandite, Garrawilla Station, Pottinger Co., New South Wales
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...
nct JR4 Micrometeorites, Zircon, Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
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...
ncat JR6 Calcite, Moeraki Point, Otago Region, New Zealand
Pink fluorescing scalenohedral calcite crystals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR6 Natrolite, Phillipsite-K, Calcite, Chabazite-Ca, Blackhead Quarry, Dunedin City, Otago Region, New Zealand
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....
ncat JR2 Anatase, Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
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...
ncat JR9 Analcime, Natrolite, Pahau River, Culverden, Hurunui District, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
Prismatic natrolite on analcime crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR10 Phillipsite-K, Erionite-K, Nontronite, Moeraki Point, Otago Region, New Zealand
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...
ncat JR8 Chabazite-Ca, Thomsonite-Ca, Blackhead Quarry, Dunedin City, Otago Region, New Zealand
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.
ncat JP3178 Thomsonite-Ca, Natrolite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
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,...
ncat JP3354 Hematite after Pyrite, Mount Goldsworthy (Shay Gap), East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia
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...
ncat WD202 Hedyphane, Calcite, Austinite, Beltana Mine (E.Z. Mine), Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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...
ncat LSIM Hausmannite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
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.
ncat MAR03 Hausmannite, Calcite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
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.
2923 UA Alabandite, Hausmannite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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…
ncat VHD15, Calcite, Fluorite, Hastingsite, Magnetite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
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.
ncat WD217 Hardystonite, Sphalerite, Cerussite, plus ?, Tasmanian Smelter, Zeehan, Tasmania
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.
ncat WD104 Witherite, Harmotome, Sphalerite, Galena, Rosebery Mine (EZ Mine), Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
ncat JP2-24-2 A2127 Cuprite, Connellite, Brochantite, Marshite, Smithsonite, Calcite, Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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...
1493 Hannayite, Skipton Caves, Mt. Widderin, Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat JP2-24-1 A3277 Halotrichite, Botryogen, Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa, City of Mount Isa, Queensland
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...
2467 Halotrichite, Melanterite, The Springs, Wellington Park, Hobart city, Tasmania
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.
ncat SA9 Atacamite, Halloysite, Cattle Grid deposit, Mount Gunson Copper mines, Pernatty Lagoon, South Australia
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.
ncat JP2577 Wulfenite, Fornacite, Pyromorphite, Halloysite, Whim Creek Copper Mine (Whim Creek Copper prospect; Whim Well Mine), Whim Creek, Roebourne Shire, Western Australia
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...
ncat JR6 Halite, Pink Lake, Meningie, Murray Riverlands, Murray Basin, South Australia
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...
ncat JP3160 Halite, Eastern Beach, Lorne, Surf Coast Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat AU003 Halite, Pink Lake, Dimboola, Hindmarsh Shire, Victoria
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.
7229 JL1259 Halite, Gypsum, Pernatty Lagoon, Stuart Shelf, South Australia
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...
ncat JP700 Halite, Lake Torrens, Andamooka Ranges, Stuart Shelf, South Australia
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.
2122 Halite, Treasure Beach, Clarence City, Tasmania
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...
0058 Halite, Marion Lake, Stenhouse Bay, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
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.
ncat NHFL Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Hellyer Mine, Hellyer-Que River Mines, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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...
ncat CC Fluorapatite, Andradite, Diopside, Allanite-(Ce), Mary Kathleen Mine, Mary Kathleen district, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
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.
30019 WD215 Albite, Orthoclase, Smoky Quartz, Muscovite, Glenrowan, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria
White albite growing epitaxially on orange orthoclase with smoky quartz. Width of view 6mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU004 Gypsum, Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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...
9117 JP2648 Gypsum, Lake Cowan, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
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.
2161 Gypsum, Wilson, City of Canning, Western Australia
Interpenetrant gypsum crystals. Collected during roadworks. Largest crystal is 27mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AA G2/18 Gypsum, Mount Perry, North Burnett Region, Queensland
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.
ncat WD111 C27 Newport Waterways (canal estate), Scarborough, Redcliffe Peninsula, Queensland
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...
2175 Gypsum, Halls Peak, Sandon Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat MLE Gyrolite, Phillipsite, Tacharanite, Coates pit, Campbell Range, Oonah, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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.
ncat JR2 Grossular, Jervois Mine, Jervois Range, Jervois Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory
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.
ncat AA2 Grossular, Ethiudna Cobalt Mine, The Ethiudna Mines, Mt Victor Plumbago Station, Olary Province, South Australia
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.
2476 Scheelite, Grossular, Kara Mine, Hampshire mining district, Burnie City, Tasmania
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.
ncat JP1531 Grossular, Grahams Quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
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.
3012 VHD6 Grossular, Wollastonite, Vesuvianite, Mt Nelson quarry, Mt Nelson, Hobart City, Tasmania
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.
3239 Grossular, Magnetite, Shepherd and Murphy Mine, Moina – Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania
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.
7267 JL1445 Grossular, Chrysocolla, Wombat Hole prospect (Wombat Hole mine), Morass Creek gorge, Dartmouth, Towong Shire, Victoria
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.
1602 Quartz, Grossular, Mount Garnet Mine, Mount Garnet, Tablelands Region, Queensland
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.
1375 Grossular, Mount Lightning Adit (MLA Deposit), Coolac district, Buccleuch Co., New South Wales
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.
ncat RAM4 15 1114-17 Copper, Mount Isa, Queensland
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.
ncat RAM4 Calcite, Siderite, Biggenden Mine, Mount Biggenden, North Burnett Region, Queensland
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...
ncat RBCJ Bournonite, Arsenopyrite, Quartz, Tolwong mines, Tolwong, St Vincent Co., New South Wales
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...
ncat MBBD Libethenite, Ulrichite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
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...
ncat MBBD Variscite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
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.
ncat MBBD Torbernite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
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.
ncat BDAU M2253-1 Natrolite, Analcime, Gmelinite, Hematite, Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat JD3 Thomsonite-Ca, Maunganui Bluff, Kaipara District, Northland Region, New Zealand
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.
40030 DH2285 Pseudobrookite, Enstatite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
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....
40029 DH2285 Pseudobrookite, Enstatite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
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.
40028 DH2285 Pseudobrookite, Enstatite, Fluorapatite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
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...
40027 DH2285 Pseudobrookite, Enstatite, Hematite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
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...
2800 Carminite, Beudantite-Segnitite, Kintore Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
25003 JR11 Cerussite, Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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...
25001 JR4 Realgar, Orpiment, Steam Bore Core 80m, Lake Rotokawa, Wairakei, Taupo District, Waikato Region, New Zealand
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.
ncat MLE Greenockite, Sphalerite, Dolomite, Great South Comet mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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...
3721 SC Grimaldiite, Crocoite, Red Lead Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
ncat MMM Greenockite-Hawleyite, Heazlewood Mine, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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.
3274 OW207 Sphalerite, Greenockite, Kara No. 1 Pit, Kara Mines, Hampshire mining district, Burnie City, Tasmania
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...
2430 Goslarite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
2183 Graphite, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
A small spray of graphite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR3 Goyazite, Myponga Beach, Myponga, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Fragments of nodules analysed as containing goyazite, hematite and apatite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 30 images.
1279 Chabazite-Na (Herschelite), Siderite, Fluorapatite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, New Zealand
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.