Creamy white pearly ferroaluminoceladonite with blue beryl and grey sellaite on a skeletal quartz matrix. Width of view 32mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny prismatic sprays of dark green-black crystals. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow-green ferrimolybdite with probable orange jarosite on quartz. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small white tufts of ferrierite on colourless heulandite. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A spray of white crystals with a yellow core. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny yellow crystals. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White crystalline groups on slate. Collected by me in 2003. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Globular creamy-white coating on slate. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue botryoidal faustite with a few tiny glassy colourless wardite crystals, and metallic hematite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Pale sky blue hemispheres with white cores of copper-bearing faustite. The outer portions may grade to zinc-bearing turquoise. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Yellow crystals of sulphur on carbonised wood. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1990 from Arthur Roffey. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Mindat lists erionite-K and erionite-Ca, with the latter the only one tested (Rruff). Isolated prisms and small groups of colourless erionite in a vugh. Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand)....
An aesthetic spray of hexagonal erionite prisms. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 95 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Twinned phillipsite crystals. These clearly show the twinning planes. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Twinned phillipsite crystals on and with calcite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
From the Moeraki Point quarry. Small colourless quartz on white calcite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink grains of eudialyte or manganoeudialyte with/in andradite, and phenocrysts of sanidine in a green groundmass. Other species likely present but would need analysis to confirm. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75. Click on...
Eucryptite and albite as massive white crystalline material. Pale pink may be cookeite. Specimen measures 75x55x30mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Deep dark red prismatic crystals of erythrite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 160 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink erythrite (look closely, some crystals are bent), blue lavendulan and olive-green cobaltaustinite. Cobaltite crystals are present, enbedded in the matrix, but not in this image. Width of view 7.66mm. Stack of 85 images. Click...
A few pieces. Erythrite occurring as a pink alteration of cobaltite crystals, which are embedded in fluorescent calcite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below...
A mass of deep pink erythrite crystals. Also present (in matrix and not shown) is tan smolianinovite pseudomorphing a cobaltite crystal. Gift from Bernie Day, December 1992. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 120 images....
Long prismatic pink crystals, one with a distinct bend in it. Width of view 5mm. Photo published in Australian Journal of Mineralogy 21(1). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink erythrite pseudomorphing cobaltite. Ex Ron and Betty Wallace Collection. Ex Graham Lee. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharp pink erythrite crystals and masses. Cobaltite as cubes mostly replaced by tan hörnesite. Black/purplish heterogenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. First image: Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below...
Tiny pink aggregates of erythrite crystals. Collected by John Carey. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 125 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Erythrite as deep pink crystals and pale pink botryoidal cobalt bloom with unidentified lilac patches. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown crystals identified as ernstite by the late Vince Peisley. There has been doubt cast on the validity of ernstite at this locality, as the original material can not be found, and subsequent pieces analysed...
Silky overgrowths of erionite (labelled as offretite) on levyne crystals. Ex Lesley and Doug Ball Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silky erionite overgrowths clearly showing on broken levyne crystal with grey calcite crystal (the calcite is 6mm tall). Adjacent vugh is lined with thomsonite and has tiny chabazite crystals sprinkled over it. Stack of 80...
Tiny colourless hexagonal prisms of erionite (sizes in photo captions). Click on the images for a higher resolution version.
Single pale blue crystal 9mm tall. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon #T8. Acquired by them from “Glad” (Rangott?, Jackson?). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hexagonal silver crystals with other manganese phases. 2022 mining. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2022 production. Crystals 22mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2022 production. Longest crystal is 30mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Non-descript looking material. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous wheatsheaf sprays of green epidote topped with a few colourless quartz crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. 15mm wide. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of lustrous green epidote crystals 29mm tall. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single larger than usual green epidote crystal, 50mm long. Probably Entia Valley. Ex Arthur Roffey Collection 453. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Twinned(?) green epidote crystals in massive white calcite that fluoresces bright orange-red. Collected in September 1994 by Margaret Brown. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 97 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Prismatic green epidote on quartz. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single very dark crystal 15mm long. It shows just a hint of green with very strong lighting. Stack of 40 images.. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as Kalumburu Station, but would be the well-known Mitchell Plateau. A sheaf-shaped aggregate of epidote crystals with minor drusy quartz. 18mm tall. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A green epidote crystal impaled on pyrite, all on dark brown andradite garnet. Presumably, the epidote interrupted the growth of the pyrite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below...
Prismatic green epidote crystals with dark green actinolite and yellowish-green titanite, the latter two not in the photo. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. (First image) Click on the image below for a...
Labelled as Briagolong. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Doug Gaw at the 1999 Waverley Show. Width of View 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark brown prismatic crystals with pale yellow fibrous meurigite-K, and tiny bright yellow cyrilovite. Width of view 2.88mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown prismatic crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection #1172. Ex Museum Victoria. Specimen is 10mm wide. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Transparent thin bladed tan crystals of enstatite with pseudobrookite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 220 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown crystals of enstatite with minor pseudobrookite and hematite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Parallel aggregates of grey, partly tarnished crystals with white kaolinite. Ex Mal Annells Collection #1424. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 99 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green crystal fragment 19mm long with interesting parallel growth faces. The C axis runs from left to right. Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Gemmy blue terminated crystal 14mm long with lepidolite at the termination (crystal shown “upside down”). Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single terminated crystal 14.5mm long, green with a black cap. Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single 15mm long terminated crystal, mostly green then a small blue section and a black cap. Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A gemmy green elbaite crystal that has been broken and later healed, but offset. Ex Jo Price Collection. Crystal is 8.5mm tall. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Opaque pink “rubellite” crystals with pale green cores frozen in matrix. Specimen is 30mm wide. Ex Bernie Day Collection #M3882. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Opaque bluish-green crystals with pink cores. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection #1963. Width of specimen is 48mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Tiny black-brown inclusions in quartz. Associated with brown-orange almandine-spessartine. Ex Gunnar Färber. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 128 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic green crystals frozen in quartz matrix. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White botryoidal spheres, some coloured green by nickel. Ex Joan Lamond Collection, Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1989 from John Haupt. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for...
White acicular clusters of dundasite with minor red crocoite. This photo clearly shows the challenge of getting clean specimens from the gossans of the mines in the area! Type Locality for dundasite. Width of view...
Clusters of snow-white crystals on prismatic orange crocoite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale green to white balls of dypingite in serpentine. Ex Jack Leach Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Creamy balls of dundasite with bright white tips to the crystals, and a few tiny crocoite crystals. Labelled as Red Lead Mine, this is clearly a Kapi Mine specimen. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of...
Yellow hexagonal mimetite roses on green duftite. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 142 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
One of the early specimens that was labelled Mount Evelyn to disguise where it actually came from. Olive-green to greenish-black crystals. Width of 11.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a...
Vanadium-rich duftite. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 106 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark greenish black dufrénite with almost colourless leucophosphite. Also on specimen but not in photo, morinite and cyrilovite. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 95 images. Click on the image below for...
Olive green crust of tiny crystals of dufrénite, with pinkish-white strengite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 2001. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a...
Dark greenish-blue dufrenite with greenish-yellow to brown cyrilovite. Ex Barry Schubert. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Very dark green crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 145 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-green dufrénite with brown eosphorite and highly fluorescent saléeite. Ex Pat Sutton. Dufrénite not listed in Mindat, but I assume Pat analysed. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 76 images. Click on the image below...
Dark bluish-green zoned hemispheres. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown prismatic crystals. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic translucent brown tourmaline crystal (dravite?) showing termination (right hand side), embedded in massive vein quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Collected 2/2005. Brown prismatic tourmaline crystals, visually identified by Ralph Bottrill as dravite at the time of collecting, but not analysed to my knowledge. Probably better described as dravite-schorl series. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack...
Tiny blue crystals of domerock (eg: centre of image) with green balls of conichalcite (eg two spheres top right of photo) and white kaolinite. Type Locality. Width of view 2.88mm. Stack of 26 images. Click...
Pale blue tiny crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 62 images.
Aggregates of cream-coloured dolomite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of specimen 28mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless stepped rhombs. Note that these crystals are similar to photos of smithsonite from this locality on Mindat, except for the colour (the smithsonite specimens have a green tint). Width of view 5mm. Stack of...
Colourless quartz with yellow dolomite and minor pyrite. Specimen measures 28x33x10mm.
Colourless zoned rhombs. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 26 images Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny dolomite crystal perched on the end of a pseudobrookite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A lot going on in a small space here. A layer of calcite is coated by quartz, then yellow spheres of dolomite. On top of this sits a malachite after cuprite crystal aggregate, and then...
White curved rhombs of dolomite on matrix. Labelled EZ Mine. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Multiple generations of dolomite. First chocolate-coloured rhombohedra, followed by a much paler (yellow-coated) layer over the same crystals (possibly just a change in chemical composition), with a final white opaque crust here and there. Also,...
Multiple generations of dolomite. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White rhombohedra. Specimen is 60mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rhombohedral dolomite with oxidised pyrite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green prismatic malachite crystals on iron-stained/coated dolomite rhombs. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled “Rum Jungle Copper Mine”. Drill core segment 48mm in diameter from the 1960s. Dolomite crystals in a cavity. The Coomalie dolomite/magnesite dolostone is Precambrian and includes vuggy recrystallised zones (from metamorphic recrystallisation), and formed...
Striated twinned djurleite crystals with calcite. The calcite fluoresces a deep pinkish-red. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1983 at the Adelaide Mineralogical Seminar. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Roxbyite inclusions in massive djurleite. 22x11x6mm. Type Locality for roxbyite. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
One of three loose crystals of green diopside, this is the smallest at 6mm tall. The largest is 16mm tall. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1983 at the Adelaide Mineralogical Seminar. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Akatoreite locality. Ex Geoff Thomas Collection. Specimen is 70x57x28mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Museum Victoria, collected by Neville Cook in 1983. 18mm wide. Labelled as Mount Titiroa but there is doubt about the locality, especially with brown akatoreite present. More likely Akatore Creek....
Slab 116mm wide. Shown in normal light and backlit. Unidentified black manganese mineral, possibly pyrolusite. Backlit photo shows a band of translucent cherty material. Click on the images below for higher resolution versions.
Blue ball of cavansite with white balls of okenite on colourless chabazite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Arborescent copper crystal group 16mm wide.
Type Locality for aldridgeite. Tiny pale blue acicular crystals of aldridgeite. Blue platy crystals of niedermayrite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dickite as tiny white tabular crystals on boulangerite and coating fluorite, with tan magnesite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Green “Selwynite”, a rock. Chromian muscovite (fuchsite) mixed with diaspore with muscovite veins. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White dickite with dark green atacamite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 90 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Roger Colling Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1999. Click on the image below for a higher...
White dickite (analysed) with tan siderite and colourless quartz. Specimen is 56mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky zoned crystals from the original find of stolzite at Kara. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images.
Two small diamonds, one just under 3mm wide, the other just over 3mm wide. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Four crude crystals, largest 16mm wide. Ex Trevor Dart. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Laurie Lawrence Collection. Specimen is about 35mm across. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fairly sharp crystal 10mm across. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Purchased by Joan from Peter Anderson for $5 in 1995. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sawn specimen. Grey fine-grained material material with galena and intergrown with other sulphides. Ex Rob Sielecki. Type Locality. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Colourless radiating prismatic crystals of danburite with green clinozoisite. Minor purple fluorite visible too. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1997. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image...
Opaque white radiating crystals with dark green prismatic actinolite and light green vesuvianite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny prismatic grey crystals (arrowed) in a small vugh. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red danalite with some crystal faces, frozen in matrix with magnetite and fluorite. Specimen measures 62x46x40mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bright thin leaf gold sitting up from matrix.
Superb blue sprays of connellite in slag.
Fluorescent red calcite and a pyrite ring.
Stunning chalcopyrite crystals looking hoppered with balls of goethite needles on barite.
Very pale yellow flattened crystals.
Greenish-yellow cyrilovite on goethite and kapundaite. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Light blue acicular cyanotrichite with minor darker blue azurite and green malachite. Specimen is 11mm wide. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silvery black cuprite crystals with a hint of red. Ex John Lewis Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny red criss-crossing elongated cuprite crystals (chalcotrichite) on prehnite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Although Mount Lyell is a copper mine, cuprite is not that common. This specimen has black slightly rounded crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Deep red cuprite crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fibrous “cummingtonite” as labelled. Not analysed to my knowledge. It is possible that this could be another amphibole such as grunerite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on...
Deep red cuprite crystals in a copper matrix from the Pit F0 Supergene Deposit. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue crust. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small crystals and partial crystals of crocoite on quartz crystals, Width of view 11mm. Stack of 6 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single red crystal 27mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous white crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 88 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 94 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
As well as the linarite and hemimorphite, there are minor amounts of aurichalcite, brochantite, pyrite, galena, and some skarn minerals present. Collected by Gerry Morvell and acquired from Gerry by Margaret Brown in 1995. Width...
Tiny white crystals with pseudobrookite and phlogopite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue-black covellite in massive quartz. Also present but not in photo, sulphur and jarosite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 24 items. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue-black crystals of covellite on iridescent chalcopyrite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Acquired by Margaret in 1994 from Trevor Dart. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 66 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A tiny ball of dark blue covellite crystals, probably covering a chalcopyrite crystal, with prismatic brown dravite, and a vein of pyrite and chalcopyrite in quartz. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view...
Colourless prismatic creedite crystals with white and colourless hyalite opal. There is a slight hint of pink in the creedite above the main crystal group. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of...
Silver-black crystals embedded in quartz. You can see very fine “hairy” crystals towards the bottom left of the photo as well as the more robust ones upper right. XRD Confirmed. Ex Jim Sharpe Collection #278....
A rare copper pseudomorph after cuprite. Ex John Roe. Width of specimen 10mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue spray with green malachite and brochantite, and unidentified pale green material in massive cuprite with quartz. Ex Brian Beyer. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a...
Green spheres are more likely conichalcite than cornwallite as labelled (conichalcite recorded in the Simpson Collection in Western Australia). Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Typical crystals of blue cornetite. Ex Bernie Day. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny blue crystals of cornetite. Collected by Ron and Betty Wallace. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Although this looks very similar to the cornetite occurrence at the Great Australia Mine, I have...
Native copper from a rare locality. Measures 25x22mm. Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Ex Brian Shelton Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Interesting cube-octahedra copper crystals. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny blue spheres of connellite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan for $4 in 1998 from Glyn Francis. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Light green spheres of conichalcite with pale blue agardite and chrysocolla. Tiny spheres of hyalite opal on some of the agardite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click...
Green spheres in a gossanous matrix. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Botryoidal green conichalcite replacing olivenite(?). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green spheres of conichalcite with pale needles of agardite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small clusters of colourless quartz on a bed of conichalcite. Quartz crystals are uncommon. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green conichalcite hemispheres with pale fluffy agardite-(La). Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny hemispheres of lighter green conichalcite on darker green bayldonite. Collected by Ian Graham. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green balls with protruding crystals. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green crust. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny colourless drusy crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White eucryptite with lilac cookeite. The eucryptite fluoreses white under longwave and red under shortwave. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $2.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack...
Massive translucent blue gem cordierite (iolite). Labelled Kamulla Creek, but I have not been able to locate this. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 17.25. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below...
Grey coloradoite sandwiched between two patches calaverite. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single partially terminated black columbite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-grey rounded aggregates of collinsite (possibly coloured by underlying cryptomelane) with prismatic scholzite crystals and tiny colourless rhombohedral-looking hillite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the...
Colourless prismatic hydroxylapatite (centre of photo) with colourless to yellowish hemispheres of distinct collinsite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Crude white pseudocubes with a slight pinkish tinge (some altering to erythrite). Width 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images (close up). Width 18.5mm. Stack of 109 images (wider view). Ex Diederik Visser. Click on the images...
Superb blue sprays of connellite with prismatic green brochantite and a couple of green malachite hemispheres, in slag. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Acquired from Greg Vort-Ronald at the 2022 Palmer Show,...
Olive-green cobaltaustinite replacing cubes of cobaltite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark olive-green coating of cobaltaustinite with lustrous purple-pink erythrite crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Dome Rock is the Type Locality for cobaltaustinite. Click on the image below...
Olive-green rounded aggregates. Collected from the first Cu workings. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange coalingite infilling chrysotile vein. Ex Joan Lamond, Ex Museum Victoria (M38281), Ex J.D. Hamilton, Ex Val Hannah. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Pale blue rosettes. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Type Locality. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of specimen 48mm.
Dark blue bladed crystals and lighter blue sprays of clinoclase with white fibres of olivenite and balls of green conichalcite and chrysocolla. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 46 images. Click...
Coatings and crystalline areas of pucherite (lighter yellow) with clinobisvanite (darker yellow to orange). Ex Jack Leach Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Crimson red cinnabar on quartz. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 19 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 29 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White to green fibres in a vein in serpentine. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 29 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green chrysocolla pseudomorphing malachite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue chrysocolla with white hemimorphite. The matrix and the hemimorphite are coated with drusy quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 29 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue chrysocolla with green malachite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue chrysocolla replacing azurite crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue chrysocolla with sprays of green malachite and crystals of brown cerussite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 29 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A waterworn green chrysoberyl crystal. It is weak red under longwave UV. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single green crystal on a sliver of matrix. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 37 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brian Smith from the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania, identified the specimens below as belonging to a member of the Helicopsychidae family, a species of caddis fly larvae. Instead of the tube shaped homes that...
Green chromium grossular on chromite and minor lizardite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Collected by Ian Graham. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rice grain smithsonite crystal group. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic blue crystals of linarite with pale blue serpierite(?). Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharp prismatic anglesite crystals. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images.
Colourless bladed crystals of anglesite with acicular crystal (also anglesite?). Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 55 images.
Unidentified white hemispheres that have grown in a thin space in slag. They look zoned, with the outermost part having a silky lustre. Note also some complete balls in gas cavity upper left. Width of...
A combination cube and octahedral crystal. Width of view 5.75mm, Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black crystals of chloritoid. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black chlorite (chamosite?) with small smoky quartz crystals, colourless albite and white orthoclase. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark green hexagonal worms of chlorite (chamosite?) with purple axinite-(Fe) and arsenopyrite. Width of view XX. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Vermicular chlorite (probably chamosite) in quartz. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single green crystal of chlorargyrite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greyish-green chlorargyrite crystals with minor prismatic orange crocoite crystals. Ex Frank Mihajlowits. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny green chlorargyrite crystal embedded in matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Nice green chlorargyrite on brownish dolomite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A specimen collected by me. I remember seeing the bright green crystals when I broke open the gossan. They darkened rapidly before my eyes! Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the...
Brownish crystal of chlorargyrite on malachite. Also present but not in photo, azurite crystals. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Chlorargyrite (bromian), originally known as embolite, is uncommon as distinct crystals. It is more regularly blobs or masses and often a purplish-grey due to exposure to light. This one is an old specimen from Broken...
Green crusty-looking material. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Collected on the upper dump by Bernie Day. Olive-green unknown (Fe phosphate?) and grey variscite (upper right) on green chalcosiderite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the...
A single mounted chalcopyrite crystal, no matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hematite crystals on a hollowed out chalcopyrite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tarnished chalcopyrite crystals. Specimen measures 74x42x40mm. Ex Rory McCann. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded chalcopyrite crystals. Specimen measures 53x34x33mm. Ex Rory McCann. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tarnished crystals on pink-fluorescing calcite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Interesting twinned chalcopyrite crystals without matrix. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of iridescent chalcopyrite crystals on ankerite/dolomite with quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
One main twinned and iridescent chalcopyrite crystal with a few smaller ones, with hematite and fibrous cream sepiolite on dolomite. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a...
Silver chalcophanite with colourless thin prismatic scholzite crystals and white hemimorphite after smithsonite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Hexagonal crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny hexagonal crystals. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Extreme closeup of a wulfenite crystal at the limit of what can be achieved with my equipment. This image has not been cropped. Width of view 2mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image...
Bright gold richly embedded throughout matrix. Ex Margaret Brown. Ex Castlemaine School of Mines. Ex CLC Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Plates of levyne with tiny analcime crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Quite blocky green malachite crystals. Acquired by me at the 2022 Gemkana from the Waverley Gem Club stall. Ex John Wren Collection. Acquired by John in 1986 for $4 from the Waverley Gem Club stall....
Chalcocite forming both a tapering prismatic crystal with a pseudohexagonal crystal at its base, with tufts of malachite on a vugh lining of crystalline prehnite. Ex Margaret Brown. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70...
Pseudohexagonal crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pseudocubic orange chabazite crystals sprinkled with goethite. Top photo: Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pseudohexagonal chabazite-Na. Width of view 7.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny pseudocubic chabazite impaled on natrolite with bladed thomsonite-Ca and a ball of white dolomite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pseudohexagonal phacolite chabazite. Width of view 5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
