Australia
2937 Quartz, Andersons Creek, Warrandyte, Victoria
One of the very first mineral specimens that I collected.
2893 Chalconatronite, Carr Boyd Rocks Ni mine (Carr Boyd Ni mine), Menangina Station, Menzies Shire, Western Australia
Measuring 2×1.9x1cm and with its red arrow pointing to the chalconatronite, this specimen would seem like a micromount. The red arrow, however, is unnecessary, as the rare carbonate chalconatronite covers a sizeable portion of the...
2888 Bridgmanite, Tenham meteorite, Tenham Station, South Gregory, Charters Towers Region, Queensland
Type Locality. Crystal inclusions in melt veins.
2873 Crocoite, Adelaide Mine (Adelaide Pty Mine; Adelaide Proprietary Mine), Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, Tasmania
Nice group of terminated crystals.
2855 Cerussite, Comet Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
ex Museum of Victoria Specimen #M26334
2752 Waterhouseite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Type Locality. Orange crystals.
6102 Allanite-(Ce), Titanite, Raglan-Mount Cole road cuts, Raglan, Beaufort, Pyrenees Shire, Victoria
Prismatic allanite-(Ce) crystal broken along C axis with small brown titanite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection.
6100 Metatorbernite, South Alligator Valley Mineral Field (South Alligator Gorge), Northern Territory
Ex-John O. Griesbach well-known and oft published geologist with his personal hand-written label and ex Scott J. Williams with his dealer label. Specimen measures 4 cm. x 3.3 cm. x 2.9 cm.
6089 Gold, Castlemaine, Victoria
Small nugget, about 8mm tall, very coarse with minor quartz
6078 Barite, Heathcote, Victoria
Gemmy blue crystals of barite on an off white chalky matrix from Heathcote. Collected by Jon Mommers on a Minsoc Vic field trip in the 1980s, probably 1982
6080 Gold, Moonlight Mine, Berringa, Victoria
Two small coarse gold in white quartz specimens
6077 Beryl (Aquamarine), Mount Bolton, Learmonth, Victoria
A single terminated beryl variety aquamarine crystal, which was recovered from a pegmatite. The crystal has a bluish green colour and some iron staining. Described as coming from near Lake Wendouree, Ballarat during Parks works,...
6065 Gold, Maryborough, Victoria
Alluvial or deep lead nugget with minor quartz, 0.38g.
6061 Fluorapatite, Schorl, Pyramid Hill granite quarry (Mawson’s Quarry), Pyramid Hill, Victoria
Schorl inclusion in apatite, no matrix. Collected by Margaret Brown 19/3/1996
6062 Gatehouseite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Type locality. Gatehouseite was first found at Iron Monarch in 1987. It occurs as radiating clusters of pale yellow and yellow to pale brownish orange micro crystals with barite and hematite.
6042 Sphalerite, Quartz, Siderite, Gypsum, Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Tasmania
Collected. Gypsum post-mining?
6012 Vandendriesscheite, Palette Mine, South Alligator Valley Mineral Field, Northern Territory
Bright yellow crystals mounted on cork pedestal.
5377 Struvite, Newberyite, Skipton Caves, Ballarat, Victoria
JL1332 Struvite altering to newberyite. Ex Museum Victoria
5371 Gold, Fluorite, Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Tasmania
JL1376. Geoff Randall $5
5372 Gold, Barossa Goldfields, South Australia
JL1374. Geoff Randall $5
5373 Malachite, Calcite, Breadon Hill, Marree, South Australia
JL1547. Barry Porter $2
5367 Pyromorphite, Black Star Open Cut, Mt Isa, Queensland
JL1176. Ex Museum Victoria
5361 Siderite, Pioneer Quarry, Narre Warren, Victoria
JL0685 Basket Weave
5365 Hedenbergite, Bustamite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
JL0808. Milton Lavers
5360 Vesuvianite, Inverell, New South Wales
JL1071 Barraba? Karl Schultz
5358 Pyrite, Barite, West Head, Flinders, Victoria
JL0942. Frank Robinson
5357 Coronadite, Anglesite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
JL1142. Barry Porter 50c
5339 Hematite, Pyrite, Moonta Mines, South Australia
A E Seaman Mineral Museum (Donor T Lipton Hancock)
5340 Tennantite, Mt Lyell Mine, Queenstown, Tasmania
A E Seaman Mineral Museum
5288 Gonnardite, Analcime, Dunnstown, near Ballarat, Victoria
Minsoc Xmas Auction
5191 Cerussite, Crocoite, Dundasite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
JL0537. Rodger Colling $1
5183 Anatase, Silver Creek, Beechworth, Victoria
JL0249. Ex Museum Vic
5182 Pyrite, Montmorillonite, West Head, Flinders, Victoria
JL0728. Frank Robinson
5173 Marcasite, Dolomite, Great Cobar Mine, Cobar, New South Wales
JL0650. Frank Robinson
5165 Barite, Barite Mine, Bunbinyunna, South Australia
JL1379. Geoff Randall $5