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.
Australasia
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.
25002 JR11 Sulphur, Hyalite Opal, Lake Rotokawa, Wairakei, Taupo District, Waikato Region, New Zealand
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.
ncat JR10 Sulphur, Lake Rotokawa, Wairakei, Taupo District, Waikato Region, New Zealand
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.
ncat JR10 Sulphur, Lake Rotokawa, Wairakei, Taupo District, Waikato Region, New Zealand
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.
ncat JR10 Sulphur, Lake Rotokawa, Wairakei, Taupo District, Waikato Region, New Zealand
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.
ncat JR10 Sulphur, Lake Rotokawa, Wairakei, Taupo District, Waikato Region, New Zealand
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.
ncat JR10 Sulphur, Lake Rotokawa, Wairakei, Taupo District, Waikato Region, New Zealand
Doubly-terminated hoppered crystal of sulphur 22mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR10 Sulphur, Lake Rotokawa, Wairakei, Taupo District, Waikato Region, New Zealand
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.
ncat JR10 Sulphur, Lake Rotokawa, Wairakei, Taupo District, Waikato Region, New Zealand
Orthorhombic crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR10 Hyalite Opal, Lake Rotokawa, Wairakei, Taupo District, Waikato Region, New Zealand
Beads of hyalite on sinter. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR10 Sulphur, Lake Rotokawa, Wairakei, Taupo District, Waikato Region, New Zealand
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.
ncat JR2 Pyrite, Chlorite, Calcite, Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, New Zealand
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....
7245 JL3033 Pyrite, Mount Tarrengower, Maldon, Victoria
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.
7262 JL3035 Siderite, Heulandite, Mount Tarrengower, Maldon, Victoria
Spherical brown siderite on heulandite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP838 Heulandite, Gypsum, Mt Tarrengower goldfield, Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria
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...
ncat OW103 Gordonite, Tom’s Quarry, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
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.
2521 Mimetite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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...
ncat AU002 Galena, Quartz, Siderite, Great South Comet mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
3422 Pharmacosiderite, Goethite, Britannia Mine, Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
2755 TA4 Jamesonite, Arsenopyrite, Cut near Golf Course, Argent Mines Area, Zeehan, Tasmania
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.
1889 Stannite, Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan district, Tasmania
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.
0956 Pyromorphite, Pyromorphite lode, Zeehan Queen mine (“Sylvester-Queen”), West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
0089 Gold, Andersons Creek, Warrandyte, City of Manningham, Victoria
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...
0030 Wulfenite, Whim Creek Copper Mine, Whim Creek, City of Karratha, Western Australia
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.
2366 Thomsonite, Gonnardite-Natrolite, Cradle Mountain Link Road, Middlesex Plains, Moina – Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania
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.
2793 ZU Quartz, Fluorite, Rex Hill Mine (Mt Rex Mine), Rossarden mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania
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.
1896 Molybdenite, Anchor Mine, Lottah, Blue Tier district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania
Hexagonal crystal of molybdenite. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW101 Cassiterite, Mount Alwa Tin Mine, Walwa, Towong Shire, Victoria
Cassiterite in greisen. Collected in 1971. Specimen measures 80x55x35mm.
3458 VHD8 Topaz, Killiecrankie, Flinders Island, Tasmania
A waterworn bluish topaz 24mm wide.
5175 JL0416 Gold, Tarnagulla, Loddon Shire, Victoria
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...
ncat AU003 Gold, Black Horse Gully area, Whipstick Forest, Bendigo, Victoria
Two small rounded nuggets. Width of view 18mm. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU003 Gold, Olympic Dam Mine, Roxby Downs, Stuart Shelf, South Australia
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.
7015 JL2230 Gold, Mongolata Gold Fields, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
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...
ncat AA5 Gold, Tea Tree Creek, Georgetown, Queensland
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.
ncat OW202 Gold, Gympie, Gympie Region, Queensland
Thin leaf gold in quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
8131 Gold, Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Mount Isa – Cloncurry area, Queensland
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.
8116 Gold, Kidston mine, Etheridge Shire, Queensland
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.
ncat AA7 Gold, Union Mine, Hill End, New South Wales
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...
ncat AA7 Gold, Union Mine, Hill End, New South Wales
Labelled as Union Mine, included in Golden Gully Area in Mindat. Thin crystalline leaf gold in quartz. Ex D.J. Parsons Collection, Rapid City, South Dakota. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 122 images. Click on...
ncat OW209 Gold, Triako Open Cut, Mineral Hill, Condobolin, New South Wales
A tiny area of gold. Gold from this location is rare, small, and hard to find! There is a second, even smaller, piece of gold on the specimen that I didn’t pick up until I...
ncat WD108 Gold, Wattle Flat, Roxburgh Co., New South Wales
Beautiful branching gold crystals on galena and quartz. Width of view 6.75mm. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat NOVM M3323 Gold, Bismuth, Namibite-Beyerite, Bismuthinite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Tiny grains of gold in quartz, associated with native bismuth, bismuthinite and greenish namibite-beyerite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 41 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat NOVM Gold, Sugarloaf Mountain Goldfield, near Eden, New South Wales
Patchy gold in iron-stained quartz. Ex Chris Ah Yee. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5187 JL0186 Gold, Drake, Drake Co., New South Wales
Dendritic crystalline gold without matrix. Precise mine not known. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Aquired by Joan from Norman Robinson in 1986 at the Loxton Gemboree, South Australia, for $5. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of...
ncat OW310 Gold, Kirkeek’s Treasure Mine, Mt Victor Homestead, Olary Province, South Australia
Labelled “Nhillinghoo”. Should be spelled Nillinghoo. Probably from Kirkeeks. Gold in goethite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 53 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JLMAR02 JL947 Gold, Gundagai, Clarendon Co., New South Wales
Small gold pieces in serpentine. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 41 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JLMAR02 JL616 Gold, Galena, Rotten Gully, Nerrina, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Small bits of gold on galena and quartz. It is possible that other sulphides/sulphosalts such as boulangerite(?) are also present. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 49 images....
ncat JLMAR02 JL547 Gold, Tibooburra, Tongowoko Co., New South Wales
Hackly gold on and in matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Tony Fraser. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JLMAR02 JL2049 Gold, Maude and Yellow Girl Mine, Glen Wills goldfield, Mt Wills mining district, Omeo, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Tiny hackly gold. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Jo Price. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 37 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JLMAR02 JL Gold, Winnecke Goldfield, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Small patches of gold in reef quartz. A golden bird up top? And a Remote Bogger in the middle? Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Don McColl. Specimen measures 4x2x2.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Click on...
ncat JLMAR02 JL643 Gold, Halleurs Mine, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
Small gold pieces on ironstone matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JLMAR02 JL618 Gold, Sofala Mine, Sofala, Roxburgh Co., New South Wales
A 2mm wide gold crystal with a face! Pareidolia! Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Pareidolia is defined as the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. It is...
30046 Gold, Glenluce, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria, Australia
Coarsely crystalline gold in white quartz. Chris Ah Yee. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2168 Gold, Moonee Beach, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales
A tiny speck of gold in quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 34 images. This would be one of the deposits/short-lived mines of the village of Moonee Beach. Click on the image below for...
ncat JP3576 Goethite, Sunrise Hill Mine (Sunrise Hill West), Mount Goldsworthy (Shay Gap), De Grey Station, Port Hedland Shire, Western Australia
Iridescent goethite stalactites. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RF Goethite after Pyrite, Kirkeeks Treasure Mine, Mt Victor homestead area, Mt Victor Plumbago Station, Olary Province, South Australia
Box of “Devil’s Dice” of various sizes, most less than 1cm in size. The one in the photo is 45x45x25mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RF Goethite after Pyrite, Yunta, South Australia
Box of “Devil’s Dice” of various sizes, most less than 1cm in size. Centre one is 14mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW310 Goethite after Hematite, Darke Peak, South Australia
Trigonal hematite crystals that have been completely replaced by goethite, with minor colourless hyalite opal. Ex Barry Schubert Collection. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
ncat RG Goethite, Calcite, Biggenden Mine, North Burnett Region, Queensland
Bladed goethite on white calcite crystals that are not fluorescent, however the underlying massive calcite is. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a...
0136 Goethite, Quartz, Mooralla, Victoria
Brown globular goethite completely covering quartz crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3792 Glaucophane, Rocky Beach, Port Macquarie, Macquarie Co., New South Wales
Bluish-grey fibrous glaucophane schist. Specimen measures 16x13x8mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0644 Gmelinite, Analcime, Natrolite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Red gmelinite coloured by hematite, with colourless analcime and prismatic natrolite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0645 Gmelinite, Natrolite, Analcime, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Red gmelinite coloured by hematite, with colourless analcime and prismatic natrolite. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1281 Gmelinite, Redpa quarry, Redpa, Marrawah district, Circular Head municipality, Tasmania
Hexagonal crystal with a white core and a lustrous colourless outer layer. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3867 Calcite, Analcime, Little Plains Quarry (Fieldwicks Quarry), Blue Tier district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania
This crystal is coloured by hematite. On colourless analcime. A nearby cavity has a colourless calcite crystal. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1031 Gmelinite, Little Plains Quarry (Fieldwicks Quarry), Weldborough Pass, Blue Tier district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania
Prismatic gmelinite crystals. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1030 Gmelinite, Little Plains Quarry (Fieldwicks Quarry), Weldborough Pass, Blue Tier district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania
Highly lustrous colourless gmelinite crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD11 Analcime, Gmelinite, Ardglen Quarry, Ardglen, Buckland Co., New South Wales
Colourless analcime on pink gmelinite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 17.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
9094 JP2651 Glaukosphaerite, 132 North Ni Mine (Mount Edwards Mine), Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
Green balls of glaukosphaerite on a tremolite matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4251 Glaukosphaerite, Carrboyd Mine, Yerilla District, Western Australia
Green acicular-fibrous crystals. Ex Albert and Marianne Schrander-Hettinga 1/2006. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3025 Gillardite, Gaspeite, Gypsum, 132 North Ni Mine, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
Dark green gillardite. Light green gaspeite. Colourless gypsum. Gillardite Type Locality. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 130 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat YU Goethite, Quartz, Calcite, Agate Creek, Queensland
Golden goethite with calcite on quartz. Calcite fluoresces bright red. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat YU Goethite, Quartz, Agate Creek, Queensland
Goethite inclusions in quartz. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4537 Goethite, Hematite, Quartz, Agate Creek, Queensland
Orange acicular goethite sprays coming from a base of hematite on palest amethyst quartz. The quartz sits on an agate base. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on...
2186 Goethite, Quartz (Amethyst), Blue Hills, Agate Creek, Queensland
Golden brown acicular crystals of goethite on amethyst. Width of specimen 13mm. Stack of 150mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1827 Goethite after Malachite(?), Malachite, Mineral Hill, near Condobolin, New South Wales
Goethite replaced earlier azurite and/or malachite(?) with an overgrowth of malachite. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7362 JL3815 Opal, Goethite, Siderite, Manyana Beach, Bendalong, St Vincent Co., New South Wales
Tiny sprays of goethite on an opal lining of a vesicle. Siderite crystals in another vesicle. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 2002 from Ann and Noel Kennon. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack...
0841 Gibbsite, Iron Monarch, Iron Knob, South Australia
Colourless crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5284 ZB2 Georgeite, Carrboyd Mine, Yerilla District, Western Australia
Greenish crust. Type Locality. Ex Dakota Matrix Minerals. 42x30x18mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHT295 Gedrite Lucky Draw Gold Mine, Burraga, New South Wales
Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. Ex Val Hannah Collection. 55x33x18mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU004 Galenobismutite, Bismuthinite, Wolfram pipe, Kingsgate, Gough Co., New South Wales 2k
XRD Confirmed. Ex Jim Sharpe Collection. Galenobismutite not fibrous, bismuthinite fibrous. 44x28x15mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
8046 M555 Ilvaite, Friedelite, Pyrosmalite-(Fe), NBHC Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Pinkish-red friedelite with tiny yellowish-brown pyrosmalite and black ilvaite. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU001 Franckeite, Sphalerite, Fluorite, Magnesite, Pyrite, Slaughteryard face, Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
A mass of silver needles of franckeite with black sphalerite, purple fluorite, tan magnesite, and not in photo, pyrite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
ncat AU001 Franckeite, Fluorite, Magnesite, Slaughteryard face, Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
A mass of silver needles of franckeite with a little purple fluorite and tan magnesite. Specimen measures 55x40x20mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3021 Tourmaline, Trial Harbour Tip, Trial Harbour, Tasmania
Brown to black tourmaline crystals, probably schorl or fluor-schorl, but could also be foitite based on recent analyses of tourmalines from this area. Specimen measures 22x18x17mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat JP3295 Peisleyite, Fluorwavellite, Tom’s Quarry, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Massive white peisleyite finely intergrown on a μm scale with fluorwavellite. SEM shows that ‘massive peisleyite’ consists of zones of intergrown peisleyite crystals (<3 μm in size) forming mats intermixed with zones of massive ‘wavellite’...
ncat VH1031 Francisite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Bright green crystalline aggregates of this rare selenium mineral. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.