Originally purchased from Marino Cristofli, a former miner from Dimbulah on 13th June 1996. Ex Martin Jensen Collection number MJ3254. 34x22x20mm. Pink-red fluorescence.
Pale orange calcite crystals partially coated by tiny colourless stilbite crystals. Specimen size 85x75x40mm. White fluorescence under longwave UV (Convoy) with a green afterglow. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Ex Roseann Scotti Collection. Click on the...
Not all mineral specimens are perfect. This one has suffered a little, perhaps when mined or perhaps when collected. One of the azurite crystals (the one on the right) has a couple of breaks. One...
Thin colourless blades of bavenite with colourless fluorite on ferroan magnesite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 45 images. VHD12. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from John Haupt. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky colourless barite crystals with sharp blue azurite. Acquired from John Haupt 4/06. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree in 1994. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Complex yellow crystals of barite on goethite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Golden barite crystals with goethite balls on the surface and native copper inclusions. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of pale yellow barite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Identified from the 2017 mining operation, acquired directly from the miner, Dehne McLaughlin. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992 at the Horsham Gemkhana from Barry Porter for $4.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1986 at the Waverley Show from Down Under Minerals.
The “Lighthouse”, sceptered calcite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Michael Hirst.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1991 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 at the Hobart Joint Mineralogical Societies Seminar from Brian Beyer for $5.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 at the Horsham Gemkhana from Barry Porter for $2.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1989. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1982 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1980.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 at the Ballarat Gemboree from Don McColl for 50c.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1982 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1988 from a tailgater at the Canberra Gemboree for $2.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Dick Haslam.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 2000 on a Victorian Mineralogical Society field trip.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1997 on a Victorian Mineralogical Society field trip.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Judy Rowe.
Tiny platy orange crystals of bastnäsite-(Ce) with yellow hexagonal mimetite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 2.33mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rough hackly bits of gold in matrix. Acquired from Ian Graham in 1993. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenish yellow cubes of bariopharmacosiderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 2.33mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black to dark green barbosalite with brown wolfeite. Width of specimen 14mm.
Black bannisterite showing typical platy crystals, with small rhodonite crystals. Specimen measures 13mm high. Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
Labelled Peak Mine (Peak Gold Mines is the operator). Green crystals of bayldonite with smaller light bluish-green crystals of adamite(?) and olive-green chenevixite(?). Elsewhere on the specimen are tiny yellow crystals of gartrellite. Width of...
Dark green crystals of bayldonite with lighter green olivenite, and yellow hidalgoite crusts on colourless mimetite. You can see the tips of the mimetite peeking through on a few crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2003 from John Haupt. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny thin colourless blades of bavenite with colourless fluorite on oxidised Fe bearing magnesite. Width of view 1.75mm, stack of 40 images (first photo) and width of view 3.5mm and stack of 70 images (second...
One large crystal with a cluster of smaller ones from a locality best known for its opal. Width of view 22mm.
Dendritic copper in yellow barite. Width of specimen 20mm. Ex George Stacey.
Width of view 5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Azurite with malachite partially pseudomorphing one crystal. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Stunning blue azurite. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale pink axinite-(Fe). Width of view 9mm. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cute little thumbnail azurite. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Specimen is 12mm across. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 55 images.
Pale blue trolleite inclusions in a colourless grain of augelite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A fairly sharp dark green gahnite crystal on chrysocolla. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous black crystals. Analysed by Peter Elliott. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
Bladed balls of thomsonite crystals with natrolite needles sticking out, well-formed phillipsite and phacolitic chabazite (the latter two not in photo). Collected by me. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the...
Bladed crystals of azurite with green crystals of libethenite on pale blue chrysocolla. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous blue azurite crystals on a goethite matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Superb sharp lustrous azurite crystals with minor malachite. Look closely, and you can see a phantom in the azurite crystal photographed. From the No. 27 Bench. This is the only azurite phantom that I have...
Thin platy azurite crystals. From the No. 23 Bench. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A sharp azurite crystal casting a blue hue on the malachite beneath. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous azurite crystals reflecting nearby malachite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Collected by Bill Birch and Dermot Henry in 1996. Pictured is purple axinite and colourless danburite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image...
A single brown-purple axinite crystal on arsenopyrite. The latter is highly reflective and you can see the reflection of the axinite. Ex Mark Hallam. Width of view 3.5. Stack of 60 images. Click on the...
Thin greenish-yellow plates of highly fluorescence autunite with orange-yellow rounded eosphorite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. UV photo: Width of view...
Golden crystals of austinite with creamy white hexagonal crystals of hedyphane. The hedyphane fluoresces strongly yellow. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenish-blue aurichalcite with very little definition or contrast on white hydrozincite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Quite a bit going on here. In the centre is light blue aurichalcite on a darker blue hemisphere of rosasite (there is a second hemisphere behind and to the left as well). In front to...
Sky blue thin crystals of aurichalcite. Also present but not in photo – colourless hemimorphite and pale green smithsonite. Multiple fluorescent colours under longwave – orange-red (appears to be the smithsonite), orange (tiny patch of...
Pale blue acicular aurichalcite on granular white hydrozincite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black prismatic augite crystals with brown coated ilmenite. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single orange wulfenite with tiny green atacamite on a coated earlier version of atacamite and quartz. There are other wulfenite crystals on the specimen. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of...
Parallel growth crystal aggregates, looking down the C axis. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1983 on a field trip that was part of the Adelaide Mineralogical Society Seminar. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Flat bladed green atacamite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic green crystals in a small vugh. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bright blue crystals of ashburtonite from the Type Locality. Width of view 2.33mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Rob Sielecki in 1998 for $15.00. Click on the...
A 5-rayed twin rather than the normal 6! Crystal group is 5mm across.
Spongy reddish gold that results possibly from the breakdown of aurostibite(?) with small areas of more yellow native gold, and silver stibnite. Collected by me in the early 1990s. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of...
Orange and red greenockite with galena, tennantite-tetrahedrite, pyrite and cerussite. The orange greenockite fluoresces red but the red crystals don’t. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 72 images (white light) and a stack of only...
Yellow crystals in a cavity in dolomite, Ex Albert Schrander-Hettinga, 2005. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A small terminated colourless aragonite crystal in amongst crystalline pink aragonite (coloured by strontium?). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White blocky crystals of fluorapophyllite-(K), some corroded, on a bed of phillipsite, with natrolite and calcite, some of which are perched on natrolite needles. Main image width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click...
Apophyllite crystals (probably fluorapophyllite-(K)) on brown bladed crystals of inesite. Ex Brian Shelton Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Flat-lying bladed colourless aragonite crystals on green serpentine with minor dark purple stichtite (not in photo). At one time, these were described as magnesite, but analysis showed them to be aragonite. Ex Jo Price Collection....
A spray of aragonite bladed crystals with unusual zig-zag markings on the faces. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ugly looking aragonite crystals that appear to have been partially etched giving them a greyish appearance, and then clear colourless tips have been added to the terminations. From an old locality. Ex Jo Price Collection....
A radiating spray of aragonite needles. Many of these sprays have seeded on an earlier larger aragonite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below...
A spray of tapered aragonite crystals, with this image showing some of the typical terminations (and a broken crystal – third from the left, demonstrating the fragile nature of such specimens). Ex Jo Price Collection....
A neat spray of bladed aragonite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A brown partially melted hexagonal apatite crystal with a hollow centre. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single hexagonal yellowish apatite crystal perched on albite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A nice spray of thin colourless aragonite blades. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
~1mm buff-coloured crystals. Type Locality. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A nice cluster of zoned tabular hexagonal fluorapatite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 22mm. Stack of 17 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A mass of lime green hexagonal pyromorphite crystals from the MMM South Mine operations. Width of view is 9.5mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. (Top photo...
A coated hexagonal prism of fluorapatite from the Pyramid Hill granite Quarry, Victoria. Not as pretty as the Lake Boga ones. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 10 images. Click on the image below for...
Fluorapophyllite (probably fluorapophyllite-(K)) crystal showing typical cleavage planes. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hair-like colourless crystals of fluorapatite. Also present, white millisite on blocky wardite crystals, and green kidwellite. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a...
Ankerite with colourless prismatic quartz and minor chalcopyrite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny anglesite crystals with even smaller orange minium. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky anglesite crystal. Acquired from Richard Wolfe 2/2005. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unusual hoppered(?) crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Group of sharp anglesite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Elongated colourless crystals of anglesite, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Collected on the dumps at the Pinnacles Mine. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below...
A lovely green anglesite from the 1998 discovery in the Block 14 open cut. Previously in the Milton Lavers Collection. Photo width 3.5mm. Stack of 33 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
At least three separate episodes of andradite garnet deposition on this specimen. First of all, orange garnet, then green, and finally, much smaller olive-green to black crystals. An interesting paragenesis. Width of view 3.5mm and...
An orange andradite caterpillar. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
An interesting specimen with an analcime crystal on blue-grey saponite. The dark areas appear to be whatever material is sitting underneath the saponite. There are two other similar size analcime crystals in this vugh and...
A skeletal group of bluish green antlerite. Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection, acquired by Joan from John Toma. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Pale tan ferroan dolomite crystals on dark brown siderite. There is also a tiny pyrite cube visible in the photo, slightly to the right and below centre. The dolomite could grade into ankerite. Width of...
Tin-white crystal aggregates of native antimony in a thin vein. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Roger Colling Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Tin-white patches, some crystalline, of native antimony. Acquired from Diederik Visser. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Antimony from Lucknow is recorded in a Mining article in the Sydney Mail newspaper of 31...
Interesting bent crystal. Found on the mullock heap area near the main shaft of the Costerfield mine. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Lustrous pale yellow crystal of sulphur in slag from the mullock heap area near the main shaft of the Costerfield mine. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for...
Double-terminated alstonite crystal group on a sulphide matrix (sphalerite, pyrite and galena). Also present but not in photo are twinned harmotome crystals. The sphalerite is providing the orange colour in the alstonite crystals. Width of...
It’s interesting to see a specimen with a paragenesis. In this instance, a double-terminated is surrounded by drill-bit twinned harmotome, but also has a harmotome perched on the alstonite crystal. The alstonite also has a...
Double-terminated alstonite crystal on a tiny bit of sulphide matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Double-terminated alstonite crystal on a tiny bit of sulphide matrix (sphalerite and galena). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Interesting arsenopyrite with siderite(?) on a quartz matrix. There are also prismatic bavenite crystals amongst the carbonate blades (not evident in photo). Specimen is 38mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Red gmelinite with colourless analcime crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single red crystal 7mm in the longest direction. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic arsenopyrite crystals, including a trilling (six-rayed star) twin, with tiny spear-shaped acanthite sprays. You can also see some light greenish yellow crystals of a possible beudantite group mineral. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of...
Pink almandine garnets in matrix. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on image below for a better resolution version.
Lustrous twinned phillipsite (Stemple twin?). The smaller crystals in the image looked like possible pseudohexagonal chabazite under the microscope, but in the photo, it is clear that they too, are phillipsites. Ex Dick Haslam Collection....
Blue to black spray of vivianite crystals in a vugh in basalt. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Brown pseudobrookite crystals with tiny yellow transparent aegirine-augite crystals. The larger pseudobrookite crystal has a “bend” in it, clearly an abrupt change of growth direction, not rare but also not common at this locality. The...
White hemispherical calcite that shows banding on broken surfaces. Collected at Bunjil’s Lookout, Maude, and most likely comes from the nearby Mountain View quarry. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the...
Iridescent ilmenite crystal with an interesting growth. The specimen needs an ultrasonic clean but wanted to take the photo first in case I lose the crystal! Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack...
An interesting grouping of andesine crystals. There is a couple of sharp ilmenite crystals in the background too. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the photo below...
From Joel Kirkman farm in Dreeite. Sharp green clinopyroxene crystals with white tabular andesine crystals. Also present is an ilmenite crystal to the right of the clinopyroxene (showing rainbow colouring), and tiny calcites(?) sprinkled over...
Ex Dick Haslam Collection
Zoned hemispheres of siderite possibly grading into ferroan calcite. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on image below for a higher resolution version.
An unusual shape! Reminiscent of a pipe, or a rugose coral, this hyalite opal has seeded on a prismatic augite crystal. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on...
Green cubic pharmacosiderite crystals on brown dravite. The paragenesis is very clear here. Both ends of the dravite crystal are embedded in quartz. The pharmacosiderite is only on the dravite outside the quartz. Ex Dick...
A hexagonal-shaped ilmenite crystal sitting on a black prismatic augite crystal. The white tabular crystals are andesine. Needle-like crystals are probably apatite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Click...
A fairly rough-looking white andesine crystal is perched on the end of a prismatic dark brown, almost black augite crystal. But wait there’s more. The top third of the augite crystal is coated by a...
Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution one.
Ex R Haslam Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images.
Small yellow barite crystals on matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click Image for High Resolution
Crystalline (but not crystals) of pyrite in quartz. Collected January 2021. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 at the Castlemaine Gemkana from a tailgater from Whyalla for $0.50.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Type Locality for norrishite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992. Ex Museum Victoria. Collected in 1898.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1997 from Jack Leach.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $2.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992 from Frank Robinson.
This stibnite specimen was collected from the open cut area before it was open cut. Some superb curving stibnite crystals! Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show for $1.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 63 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Brian Beyer at the Adelaide Mineralogical Society Seminar for $1.00. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 60 images.
Labelled as hinsdalite but likely plumbogummite, and as “Sylvester Mine”. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $4.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $2.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Judy Rowe. Judy was involved in the hand-sorting of heavy minerals from the deposit.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995. Ex Museum Victoria. Ex Somerset Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images.
Gmelinite-chabazite intergrowth. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 75 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2001 from a Tailgater at the Wagga Gemboree.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Ruth Coulsell (fluornatrocoulsellite). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 34 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 64 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2001 from a Tailgater at the Wagga Gemboree.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from June and Bob Gleeson at the Echuca Gemkana.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991. Ex Museum Victoria.
The Organ Pipes National Park is enclosed in two Cities: Hume to the north of Jacksons Creek, and Brimbank to the south. It is not known which side of the creek this specimen was collected...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Brian Beyer for $6.00 at the New South Wales Mineralogical Societies Seminar.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Brian Beyer for $10.00 at the New South Wales Mineralogical Societies Seminar.
Basketweave siderite. Collected by Joan Lamond in 1982. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 150 images.
Mindat only lists richterite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Don Billinghurst.
Acquired by Joan Lamond at the 1996 Prahran Show from Martin Rosser for $6.00.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1993 on a Mineralogical Society field trip.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Jack Leach. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 80 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Michael Hirst.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002. Ex Ralph Segnit Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 from Robyn Sharp.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Ann and Noel Kennon.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from the Bendigo Show club stall for $0.50.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Judy Rowe. Collected by Judy and Stan Rowe in May, 1985.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Judy Rowe in 2000.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
Cuprian tarbuttite. Collected by Joan Lamond in 1999 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Judy Rowe in 1998. Labelled as “Mannum”.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show in 1998 for $1.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
10mm across and much more intense blue than you normally see. Acquired by Joan Lamond from George Williams in 1999 at the Castlemaine Gemkana for $1.50.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from George Williams in 1999 at the Castlemaine Gemkana for $1.50.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
Probably (but to be confirmed) now the Hanson Quarry, Shell Cove, Shellharbour, New South Wales. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Noel Kennon in 2002.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1989 from John Haupt.
Labelled as Briagolong. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Doug Gaw at the 1999 Waverley Show. Width of View 5mm.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show in 1998. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond at Tamborine Mountain in 1990.
Five single crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Doedens via Audrey Tuck.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jo Price in 2003.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show in 1998. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Green crystal fragment with interesting growth faces.
Dark green crystals in a small vugh. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Obtained from Albert Schrander-Hettinga 2/2005.
Blue unterminated crystal with lepidolite crystal attached to “termination”.
Crystal fragment of green elbaite, capped by schorl, then more green elbaite growing on an angle (broken and healed?).
Single crystal, etched termination, very pale pink and green.
Single terminated crystal, green with a black cap.
Single unterminated brown crystal (dravite?).
Single terminated crystal, mostly green then a small blue section and a black cap.
Single terminated crystal, root-beer brown.
Watermelon tourmaline, pink core, green rim. Not terminated.
Single terminated black crystal.
Green elbaite rims over black schorl core.
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 90 images.
