7442 JL1746 Tridymite, Spring Hill, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Judy Rowe.
Australia
ncat JP1615 Bastnäsite-(Ce), Mimetite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
1045 Gold, Cracow, Queensland
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.
ncat JP3658 Bariopharmacosiderite, Mount Malvern Mine, Clarendon, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
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.
2484 Barbosalite, Wolfeite, Wilsons Pegmatite, near Broken Hill, New South Wales
Black to dark green barbosalite with brown wolfeite. Width of specimen 14mm.
7432 JL1659 Bannisterite, Rhodonite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Black bannisterite showing typical platy crystals, with small rhodonite crystals. Specimen measures 13mm high. Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
9112 JP2783 Bayldonite, Gartrellite, Chenevixite?, Adamite?, New Cobar Mine, Cobar, New South Wales
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...
0346 Bayldonite, Olivenite, Hidalgoite, Mimetite, Kintore Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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...
7414 JL3961 Chalcopyrite, Bayldonite, Quartz, Mount Malvern Mine, Chandlers Hill, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
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.
2578 Fluorite, Bavenite, Ferroan Magnesite, Slaughteryard Face, Mount Bischoff, Waratah, Tasmania
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...
2171 Barite, Opalton, Queensland
One large crystal with a cluster of smaller ones from a locality best known for its opal. Width of view 22mm.
ncat VHD4, Copper, Barite, Mount Isa, Queensland
Dendritic copper in yellow barite. Width of specimen 20mm. Ex George Stacey.
0491 Azurite, Malachite, Cerussite, Woodlawn, New South Wales
This specimen shows a couple of interesting properties of cerussite. The first is the unfortunate way that crystals can easily break (right hand end of main white cerussite crystal). The second is its habit of...
0756 Azurite, Calcite, Malachite after Azurite, Cobar, New South Wales
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.
1591 Azurite, Mineral Hill, near Condobolin, New South Wales
Stunning blue azurite. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4535 Axinite-(Fe), Lake Cooper Quarry, Corop, Victoria
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.
ncat M78 Azurite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Cute little thumbnail azurite. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Specimen is 12mm across. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD3, Volborthite on Chrysocolla after Atacamite, all on Quartz, Breaden Hill, Marree, South Australia
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 55 images.
ncat JP857 Trolleite, Augelite, Mount Perry, North Burnett Region, Queensland
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.
0819 Gahnite, Chrysocolla, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
0706 Thomsonite-Ca, Chabazite-Ca, Phillipsite, Natrolite, Cradle Mountain Link Road, Middlesex Plains, Tasmania
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...
0227 Libethenite, Azurite, Chrysocolla, Burra Burra Mine, Burra, South Australia
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.
0534 Azurite, Teutonic Bore, near Leonora, Western Australia
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.
2164 Azurite, No.27 Bench, Girilambone Copper Mine, Girilambone, New South Wales
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...
1489 Azurite, No.23 Bench, Girilambone Copper Mine, Girilambone, New South Wales
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.
0502 Azurite, Malachite, Triako Open Cut, Mineral Hill, near Condobolin, New South Wales
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.
0489 Malachite, Azurite, Anglesite, Triako Open Cut, Mineral Hill, near Condobolin, New South Wales
Lustrous azurite crystals reflecting nearby malachite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7014 JL2046 Schorl, Axinite-(Fe), Danburite, Vesuvianite, Gravel Hill quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
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...
1263 Axinite-(Fe), Arsenopyrite, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery, Tasmania
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...
0760 Eosphorite, Autunite, Wycheproof Quarry, Wycheproof, Victoria
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...
1726 Austinite, Hedyphane, EZ Mine, Puttapa, South Australia
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.
ncat OW105 M6 Aurichalcite, Hydrozincite, Rosasite, Billy Springs, South Australia
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.
4362 JL3630 Aurichalcite, Rosasite, Quartz, Muldiva near Chillagoe, Queensland
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...
ncat JP226 Smithsonite, Hemimorphite, Aurichalcite, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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...
ncat VHD4 MB Aurichalcite, Hydrozincite, Hemimorphite, Evelyn Mine, Northern Territory
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.
ncat VH93 Augite, Ilmenite, Portland Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Sir William Grant, Portland, Victoria
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.
ncat VH120 Wulfenite, Atacamite, Mount Gunson Copper mines, Pernatty Lagoon, South Australia
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...
1842 Atacamite, Mt Gunson Copper Mine, Mt Gunson, South Australia
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.
7311 JL3095 Atacamite, Moonta, South Australia
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...
ncat VHD7, Atacamite, Endeavour 26 Pit, North Parkes Mine, Parkes, New South Wales
Flat bladed green atacamite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2047 Atacamite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland
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.
7358 JL3059 Ashburtonite, Mineral Claim 84 Cu deposit (Anticline prospect), Ashburton Downs Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia
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...
0791 Arsenopyrite Twin, Sunny Corner,near Bathurst, New South Wales
A 5-rayed twin rather than the normal 6! Crystal group is 5mm across.
0878 Gold, Stibnite, Heathcote, Victoria
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...
0186 Greenockite, Galena, Tennantite-Tetrahedrite, Pyrite, Cerussite, Woodlawn, New South Wales
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...
3949 Arsendescloizite, Beltana Deposit, Puttapa, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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.
2211 Aragonite, Bridgewater Quarry, Bridgewater, Tasmania
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.
0550 Fluorapophyllite-(K), Calcite, Natrolite, Phillipsite, Pioneer Quarry, Harkaway, Victoria
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...
ncat WD115 Fluorapophyllite-(K), Inesite, Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
ncat JP0763 Aragonite, Nevada Creek, North Dundas, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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....
ncat JP1240 Aragonite, Trentham Falls, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat JP3684 Aragonite, Nichterlein’s quarry, Lower Paper Mills Road, Fyansford, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
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....
ncat JP3664 Aragonite, Jackson’s Creek, Panorama Drive, Gisborne, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
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...
ncat JP485 Aragonite, Tylden quarry, Tylden, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
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....
ncat JP1429 Aragonite, Rosslynne Reservoir, Gisborne, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
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.
ncat JP3618 Fluorapatite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
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.
ncat JP2434 Fluorapatite, Albite, Pyramid Hill granite quarry (Mawson’s Quarry), Pyramid Hill, Loddon Shire, Victoria
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.
1559 Aragonite, Chabazite-Ca, Saponite, RTA Quarry, Ben Lomond, New South Wales
A nice spray of thin colourless aragonite blades. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Second photo shows complex twinned chabazite with the aragonite in the background. Dark green hemispheres are saponite. Width of...
1320 Archerite, Petrogale Cave, Madura Roadhouse, Dundas Shire, Western Australia
~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.
ncat BDMAR01 M1007 Fluorapatite, Lake Boga, Victoria
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.
1128 Pyromorphite, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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...
ncat VHD4, Tourmaline, Pyrite, Quartz, Fluorapatite, Pyramid Hill, Victoria
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...
0887 Fluorapophyllite-(K), Zinc Corp, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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.
ncat VHD10, Fluorapatite, Millisite, Wardite, Iron Monarch Mine, Iron Knob, South Australia
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...
1791 Chalcopyrite, Quartz, Ankerite, Henty Gold Mine, Queenstown, Tasmania
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.
ncat JP1045 Anglesite, Minium, Wirrealpa Mine (Flinders Range Silver Lead NL; Donkey Bore Prospect), Wirrealpa homestead area, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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.
3975 Anglesite, Zeehan Queen Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania
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.
ncat JP452 Anglesite, Cordillera Mine, Tuena, Georgiana Co., New South Wales
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.
2722 Anglesite, Cerussite, Oxide Dump, Woodlawn Mine, Tarago, New South Wales
Group of sharp anglesite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
9149 JP2511 Anglesite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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...
ncat ML Anglesite, Block 14 Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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...
0795 Andradite, Mary Kathleen, Queensland
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...
0826 Andradite, Clinozoisite, Actinolite, Ferro-axinite, Dookie Mineral Reserve, Dookie, Victoria
An orange andradite caterpillar. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 20 images. Clinozoisite photo width 11.5mm. Stack of 34 items. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version…
4300 Analcime, Fieldwicks Quarry, Lottah Road, Weldborough Pass, Tasmania
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...
4360 JL3352 Antlerite, Mount Oxide Mine, Mount Gordon, Queensland
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...
3877 Siderite, Dolomite, Pyrite, Great South Comet Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
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...
4366 JL3712 Antimony, Queen’s Birthday Mine, Goldsborough, near Dunolly, Victoria
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...
4277 Antimony, Lucknow, New South Wales
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...
5738 Stibnite, Costerfield, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
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…
5737 Sulphur, Costerfield, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
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...
5736 Alstonite, Harmotome, Rosebery Mine (EZ Mine), Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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...
5735 Alstonite, Harmotome, Rosebery Mine (EZ Mine), Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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...
5734 Alstonite, Rosebery Mine (EZ Mine), Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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…
5733 Alstonite, Rosebery Mine (EZ Mine), Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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…
20072 Arsenopyrite, Bavenite, Siderite, Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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...
ncat 442 VHD11, Analcime, Gmelinite-Na, Simmons Bay, Flinders, Victoria
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.
2743 Almandine, Mt Heemskirk, Tasmania
A single red crystal 7mm in the longest direction. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1428 Arsenopyrite Trilling, Acanthite, Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania
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...
9141 JP2798 Almandine, Gentle Annie mine, Sunnyside, Mt Wills mining district, Omeo, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Pink almandine garnets in matrix. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on image below for a better resolution version.
40026 RH1023 Phillipsite, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
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....
40025 RH1357 Vivianite, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
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…
40024 RH2302 Pseudobrookite, Magnetite, Enstatite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
Brown pseudobrookite crystals with tiny yellow transparent enstatite 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...
5732 Calcite, Maude, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
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...
40023 RH Ilmenite, Lethbridge quarry, Lethbridge, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
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...
40022 RH Andesine, Ilmenite, Lethbridge quarry, Lethbridge, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
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...
40021 RH2568 Clinopyroxene Subgroup, Andesine, Ilmenite, Calcite, Dreeite, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
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...
40020 RH Hyalite Opal, Miners Rest Quarry, Miners Rest, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Ex Dick Haslam Collection
40019 RH1154 Siderite, Armytage Quarry, Armytage, Surf Coast Shire, Victoria
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.
40018 RH Hyalite Opal, Miners Rest Quarry, Miners Rest, City of Ballarat, Victoria
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...
40017 RH1345 Pharmacosiderite, Dravite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
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...
40004 RH Ilmenite, Augite, Andesine, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
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...
40005 RH1029 Fayalite, Andesine, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
Brown fayalite(?) crystals with grey-green andesine. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.83mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
40003 RH Augite, Andesine, Hyalite Opal, Ilmenite, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
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...
40002 RH Hyalite Opal, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution one.
40001 RH Andesine, Augite, Apatite, Miners Rest Quarry, Miners Rest, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Ex R Haslam Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images.
ncat OW102 Barite,Rosebery Mine (EZ Mine), Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Small yellow barite crystals on matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click Image for High Resolution
5731 Pyrite, Eaglehawk Mine, Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria
Crystalline (but not crystals) of pyrite in quartz. Collected January 2021. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
7438 JL3591 Copper, Sliding Rock Mine, Warraweena, Beltana, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 at the Castlemaine Gemkana from a tailgater from Whyalla for $0.50.
7433 JL1802 Gold, Pyrite, Hill End, Wellington Co., New South Wales
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
7431 JL3164 Norrishite, Sugilite, Hoskins mine, Grenfell, Forbes Co., New South Wales
Type Locality for norrishite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
7429 JL0007 Gold, Kanowna Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992. Ex Museum Victoria. Collected in 1898.
7427 JL2071 Chalcocite, Moonta, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
7426 JL2319 Adamite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1997 from Jack Leach.
7422 JL0961 Turquoise, Site 3, Edi-Cheshunt turquoise field, Whitfield, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992 from Frank Robinson.
0881 Stibnite, Red Hill, Heathcote, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
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.
7415 JL3069 Magnetite, Fluorapatite, Diopside, Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show for $1.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
7413 JL2906 Pyrite, Gold, Galena, Hill End, Wellington Co., New South Wales
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 63 images.
7412 JL1467 Fluorapatite, Barite, Quartz, Cuprite, Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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.
7410 JL1834 Hinsdalite, Pyromorphite, Pyromorphite lode, Zeehan Queen mine (“Sylvester-Queen”), Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
7408 JL1830 Pyrophyllite, Gundagai, Clarendon Co., New South Wales
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $2.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
7405 JL3651 Anatase, Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Judy Rowe. Judy was involved in the hand-sorting of heavy minerals from the deposit.
7404 JL1655 Cinnabar, Mercury, Jamieson Mercury mine, Quicksilver creek, Jamieson, Mansfield Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995. Ex Museum Victoria. Ex Somerset Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7403 JL1741 Gmelinite-Chabazite, Analcime, Point Sambell, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Gmelinite-chabazite intergrowth. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 75 images.
7402 JL3695 Quartz, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2001 from a Tailgater at the Wagga Gemboree.
7401 JL1724 Stibiconite, Stibnite, Ringwood Gold and Antimony Mine (Antimony Mine), Ringwood, City of Maroondah, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Ruth Coulsell (fluornatrocoulsellite). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 34 images.
7400 JL1740 Chabazite, Calcite, Point Sambell, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 64 images.
7399 JL1820 Calcite, Korumburra, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson.
7398 JL3692 Calcite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2001 from a Tailgater at the Wagga Gemboree.
7397 JL1770 Gypsum, Chlorite, Olympic Dam Mine, Roxby Downs, Stuart Shelf, South Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995. Ex Museum Victoria.
7393 JL1798 Mordenite, Mount Hay, Wycarbah, Rockhampton Region, Queensland
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from June and Bob Gleeson at the Echuca Gemkana.
7389 JL1821 Clinozoisite, Mokoan quarry, Goorambat, Rural City of Benalla, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991. Ex Museum Victoria.
7388 JL3708 Chabazite, Thomsonite-Ca, Organ Pipes National Park, City of Hume/Brimbank, 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...
7386 JL1972 Connellite, Cuprite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Brian Beyer for $6.00 at the New South Wales Mineralogical Societies Seminar.
7384 JL1973 Gerhardtite, Cuprite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Brian Beyer for $10.00 at the New South Wales Mineralogical Societies Seminar.
7380 JL3766 Siderite, Montmorillonite, Pioneer quarry, Narre Warren North, City of Casey, Victoria
Basketweave siderite. Collected by Joan Lamond in 1982. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 150 images.
7379 JL1822 Ferro-richterite, Camels Hump, Mount Macedon, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
Mindat only lists richterite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Don Billinghurst.
7377 JL1875 Cerussite, Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Acquired by Joan Lamond at the 1996 Prahran Show from Martin Rosser for $6.00.
7376 JL1947 Wulfenite, Pyromorphite, Avondale Mine, Mount Lyndhurst station, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1993 on a Mineralogical Society field trip.
7371 JL3673 Phillipsite-Na, Siderite, Pioneer quarry, Narre Warren North, City of Casey, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Jack Leach. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 80 images.
7370 JL1736 Barite, Chabazite, Redcliff Head (Red Cliff Head), Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
7369 JL1705 Hyalite Opal, Trentham Falls, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Michael Hirst.
7365 JL3927 Lavendulan, Erythrite, Dome Rock Copper Mine, Boolcoomatta Reserve (Boolcoomata Station), Olary Province, South Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002. Ex Ralph Segnit Collection.
7364 JL3382 Sasaite, Turquoise, Site 3, Edi-Cheshunt turquoise field, Whitfield, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 from Robyn Sharp.
7359 JL3034 Pyrite, Mount Tarrengower, Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from the Bendigo Show club stall for $0.50.
7356 JL3132 Quartz, Gosse Bluff, Tnorala Conservation Reserve, MacDonnell Region, Northern Territory
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Judy Rowe. Collected by Judy and Stan Rowe in May, 1985.
7352 JL3683 Olivine, Andesine, CSR Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Judy Rowe in 2000.
7350 JL3181 Thomsonite, Phillipsite, Chabazite, West Head, Flinders, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Frank Robinson.
7349 JL3200 Dumontite, Saléeite, Ranger Mine (Ranger Uranium Mine), Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
7344 JL3134 Beryl, Titanite, Biotite, Monazite, Magnetite, Tungkillo area, Palmer, South Mt Lofty Ranges (Adelaide Hills), Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Judy Rowe in 1998. Labelled as “Mannum”.
7339 JL3068 Diopside, Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show in 1998 for $1.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
7347 JL3208 Azurite, Sir Dominic Mine, Yudnamutana District, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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.
7337 JL3207 Azurite, Sir Dominic Mine, Yudnamutana District, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond from George Williams in 1999 at the Castlemaine Gemkana for $1.50.
7336 JL3162 Saléeite, Quartz, Ranger Mine (Ranger Uranium Mine), Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
7335 JL3816 Prehnite, Pioneer Quarry, Shellharbour, New South Wales
Probably (but to be confirmed) now the Hanson Quarry, Shell Cove, Shellharbour, New South Wales. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Noel Kennon in 2002.
7319 JL3066 Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Proustite, Siderite, Browne’s shaft, Block 39, North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show in 1998. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
7317 JL3486 Calcite, Mount Tamborine, Darlington Range, Scenic Rim Region, Queensland
Acquired by Joan Lamond at Tamborine Mountain in 1990.
7307 JL3176 Calcite, Jenolan Caves, Westmoreland Co., New South Wales
Five single crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria.
7303 JL3973 Pharmacosiderite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jo Price in 2003.
7300 JL3070 Cordierite, Mount Isa area, Queensland
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show in 1998. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
3951 Clinoatacamite, Wallace Gully, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Dark green crystals in a small vugh. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Obtained from Albert Schrander-Hettinga 2/2005.
4622 Elbaite, Schorl, Dudley pegmatite, Penneshaw, Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Crystal fragment of green elbaite, capped by schorl, then more green elbaite growing on an angle (broken and healed?).
4621 Elbaite, Dudley pegmatite, Penneshaw, Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Single crystal, etched termination, very pale pink and green.
4619 Tourmaline, Dudley pegmatite, Penneshaw, Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Single unterminated brown crystal (dravite?).
4617 Elbaite, Dudley pegmatite, Penneshaw, Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Single terminated crystal, root-beer brown.
4616 Elbaite, Dudley pegmatite, Penneshaw, Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Watermelon tourmaline, pink core, green rim. Not terminated.
4615 Schorl, Dudley pegmatite, Penneshaw, Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Single terminated black crystal.
4613 Elbaite, Schorl, Dudley pegmatite, Penneshaw, Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Green elbaite rims over black schorl core.
ncat JP194 Stibnite, Quartz, Yarra Glen, Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 90 images.
5729 Hoganite, Cerussite, Malachite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Sharp blue-green micro crystals of hoganite on cerussite and malachite. Colour is more green than shown in the photos. Width of view 3.5mm. Exact source of specimen is not known. The original occurrence was only...
5722 Ruby Corundum, Mount Brady, Ambalindum Station, Harts Range, Northern Territory
Single red crystal (17mm longest direction) with very minor matrix. Fluoresces bright red (right hand image).
5719 Goethite replacing Pyrite, Stellerite, Calcite, Lake Cooper quarry, Corop, Campaspe Shire, Victoria
Interpenetrant slightly rounded pyrite cubes, some with truncated corners, altering to brown goethite with prismatic colourless striated prismatic stellerite crystals and minor white calcite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
0248 Pyromorphite, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Green prismatic crystals. Width of specimen 11mm.
ncat JP3161 Anatase, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
A large number of mostly bluish anatase crystals from an alluvial deposit. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 75 images.
5718 Goethite replacing Pyrite, North Moonlight Mine, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
A single cube of pyrite altering to goethite in a sandstone matrix. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 100 images.
2142 Antimony, Inglewood, Loddon Shire, Victoria
Tin white antimony on matrix. Specimen width 25mm.
5717 Sampleite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Intense blue thin bladed crystals, including one that has a distinct bend. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 100 images. Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
ncat WD102 Phillipsite, Calcite, Sunbury, Victoria
An unusual specimen. I am unaware of other zeolite specimens from Sunbury, although the basalt quarries do produce calcite and aragonite. This specimen also has what looks like calcite-coated prismatic augite crystals, unlike any other...
0436 Smithsonite, Coronadite, Kintore Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
One of my favourite Broken Hill smithsonite specimens. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 100 images.
0589 Datolite, Chlorite, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery, Tasmania
Chlorite “worms” included in colourless datolite crystals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 120 images.
3875 Sampleite, Lake Boga, Victoria
Unusually narrow-bladed sampleite crystals. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 45 images.
30110 Pyromorphite, Cerussite, Calcite, Avondale Mine, Mount Lyndhurst station, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Green hexagonal prisms of pyromorphite with off-white cerussite (orange fluorescence) and white calcite (white fluorescence). Specimen measures 60x50x32mm.
20068 Azurite, Boomerang Mine (Matlock Mine; Mount Maggie Mine), Gunpowder District, City of Mount Isa, Queensland
Group of stacked azurite crystals. Ex George Reimherr Collection. 21mm wide.
ncat MB Axinite-(Fe), Actinolite, Andradite, Tremolite, Dookie Mineralogical Reserve quarry, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Lilac group of axinite crystals with green actinolite, orange andradite and white fibrous tremolite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 180 images. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Ex Gerry Morvell. Click on the image below for...
0174 Boulangerite, Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Chlorite, Rosebery Mine, Tasmania
Rings and curved crystals of boulangerite on pink rhodochrosite. Header image width of view is 5mm. Stack of 110 images. Second image is an old one, width of view 2.5mm and stack of 12.
30108 Topaz, Bischoff Extended (West Bischoff; Wheal Bischoff), Waratah, Waratah-Wynyard Municipality, Tasmania
Slightly iron-stained topaz crystals in vugh in a vein. Width 50mm. Closeup photo width of view 5mm. Stack of 60 images.
3966 Quartz, Hematite, Iron Blow, Gormanston, Tasmania
Collected… Also ended up having minor surgery after this collecting trip. A piece of chisel ended up embedded in my wrist!
ncat M3018 Saléeite, Lake Boga, Victoria
Thin elongated saléeite crystals, extremely responsive to ultraviolet. Ex Bernie Day collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images (white light) and 14 images (UV image).
5713 Mcguinnessite, Copper, Dolomite, DeGrussa Copper Mine (DeGrussa Gold-Copper Mine; DeGrussa Mine), Doolgunna Station, Peak Hill Goldfield, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia
Genie of the lamp. Colourless bladed dolomite crystals over pale blue mcguinnessite on native copper. Height of view 11mm. Stack of 160 images.
0596 Zircon, Ridge Road quarry, Daylesford, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
Single zircon crystal occurs as a xenolith in basalt. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 150 images.
30106 Quartz, Meredith, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Colourless crystal, main one being 35mm long.
5712 Atacamite, Gypsum, Volborthite, Sweet Nell (Ironstone Lagoon), Ironstone Lagoon, Stuart Shelf, South Australia
Colourless gypsum over dark green to almost black atacamite. Yellowish green volborthite on specimen but not in photos. Ex John and Betty Weir.
20065 Ferrierite-Mg, Burra Burra Copper Mine (Burra Mine; Monster Mine), Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
White sprays on quartz matrix. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 220 images. Ex Vince Peisley.
4910 Torbernite, Pseudomalachite, Mottramite, Libethenite, Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Green platy torbernite, bluish green hemispheres of pseudomalachite, tiny green crystals of libethenite and tiny yellow-green crystals of mottramite. Width of view 7.5mm. Stack of 120 images. Ex Barry Schubert Collection.
ncat JL376 Linarite, Cerussite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Featured on the cover of the Australian Journal of Mineralogy Volume 21 Number 1, 2020. If you were to ask my granddaughter Gracie what my favourite colour is, she would tell you blue! And what...
0298 Ulrichite, Turquoise, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Green transparent sprays of ulrichite with a couple of turquoise balls. Height 7.5mm. Stack of 200 images. Type Locality.
20063 M446 Marshite, Cuprite, Dolomite, Mutooroo Mine, Pine Creek – Mutooroo area, Mingary, Olary Province, South Australia
Pale greenish marshite(!) crystal with dark cuprite crystals and white dolomite. The marshite fluoresces strongly red with Convoy UV torch. There are three other areas of the specimen that also fluoresce bright red, but individual...
0639 Gonnardite, Boral Bluestone quarry (Dunnstown quarry), Dunnstown, Moorabool Shire, Victoria
Small vugh full of silky white crystal sprays. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 200 images.
5703 Pyrite, Goethite, New Australasian Mine, Creswick, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
Pyrite cube partially altered to goethite. Collected on the dumps 31 July 2020. Crystal width 4mm. Stack of 80 images. Scene of Australia’s worst mining disaster in 1882 when 26 men perished. Water from the...
4547 Saleeite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Greenish yellow platy crystals that react strongly to Convoy longwave ultraviolet light. Width 9.25mm. Stack of 120 images (white light). Stack of 15 images (UV). Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
5694 Bastnäsite-(Ce), Coronadite, Mimetite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Tiny triangular orange bastnäsite-(Ce) crystals on black coronadite. There are three vughs with at least a dozen bastnäsite-(Ce) crystals in each. Mimetite is mostly yellow prismatic crystals with one grey crystal. Width 3mm. Stack of...
5693 Beudantite Group, Gold Mine, Central Goldfields, Victoria
Glassy brown bipyramidal crystals of a probable beudantite group mineral, with nearby yellowish-green material probably also the same species. Width 2.25mm. Collected underground. Stack of 90 images.
5692 Fluellite, Wavellite, Fairview Quarry, Robertstown, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Grey blocky fluellite crystals with tiny white wavellite crystals. Fluoresces under longwave UV. Width 18.5mm (except for cropped UV image). White light: stack of 130 images. UV: stack of 18 images. Ex John Weir. The...