Colourless gypsum over dark green to almost black atacamite. Yellowish green volborthite on specimen but not in photos. Ex John and Betty Weir.
White sprays on quartz matrix. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 220 images. Ex Vince Peisley.
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.
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...
Green transparent sprays of ulrichite with a couple of turquoise balls. Height 7.5mm. Stack of 200 images. Type Locality.
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...
Small vugh full of silky white crystal sprays. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 200 images.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
White agate-patterned calcite filling small vesicles in basalt. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Collected 16/7/2020.
Brown-tinged cerussite crystals in argentiferous galena with pyrite and minor sphalerite and siderite. Width 11mm. Stack of 100 images.
0.2g of the Murchison meteorite (9 fragments). This meteorite which fell in 1969 is classed as a CM2 Carbonaceous Chondrite. 38 mineral species have been identified including 3 Type Locality minerals. Largest piece in photo...
Yellow butterfly of mimetite with goethite casts after cerussite. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
Intense blue linarite crystals. Width 8mm. Stack of 51 images.
Collected underground in 2004. Specimen width 11mm. Stack of 98 images (Helicon Focus).
Sharp native copper crystals. Specimen height 7mm. Stack of 100 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
Phacolite habit of chabazite. Brown ferroan calcite is fluorescent and phosphorescent. Width 11mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria.
Cluster of tiny gold crystals. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Obtained from Gordon Dicker in 1973.
Ex Museum of Victoria. Width 11mm. Stack of 70 images. Some of the smaller crystals are transparent.
Small amount of gold in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 70 images.
Deep red octahedral crystals when strongly lit. Width 11mm. Stack of 116 images. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection.
One of the rarer zeolites. Silky white sprays. Width 11mm. Stack of 140 images.
Light blue crust on matrix. Width 11mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Blocky brown rutile crystals with green-brown prismatic dravite. Height 5.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Gold (trying very hard to be an octahedral crystal) in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 58 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp platy crystals. Width 7mm, stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Very small patches of hackly gold embedded in quartz. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Silvery-white crystalline native bismuth. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Collected on the Pinnacles Dumps. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 54 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Lighter green libethenite with almost black bladed plimerite. Natrodufrenite listed on label but I am not able to pick it. There are also other minerals, including possible calcian pyromorphite as white prismatic crystals, hoppered green...
Small amount of gold with iridescent goethite in white quartz.
Bright gold patches with iridescent goethite in white quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 50 images.
Group of deep purple fluorite cubes with octahedral faces, with white calcite that fluoresces red. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Val Hannah Collection.
Greenish-brown short to long prismatic stolzite crystals with brown pyromorphite. Width 9mm. Stack of 100 images. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Pyromorphite is fluorescent pale orange, but also fluorescing are patches of sphalerite in the matrix...
Acicular needles of coronadite with a few hexagonal green pyromorphite crystals and white fibrous kaolinite(?). Width 9mm. Stack of 30, 42 and 62 photos. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp crystals of pale brass arsenopyrite and black sphalerite, and a tiny bit of chalcopyrite. Photo width 9mm. Stack of 50 images (arsenopyrite), and 60 images (sphalerite). Ex Jo Price specimen.
A single purple octahedral crystal of fluorite (fluorescent) with golden sprays of goethite on quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp brown jarosite crystals with rainbow goethite. Width 9mm. Stack of 34 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Although not that uncommon, zircon xenocrysts that have come up as part of the molten material are usually hard to spot. This zircon has only been affected a little. It also exhibits a nice rainbow...
Powellite is uncommon in Australia, particular as distinct crystals. Mindat has only one photo, a powellite with ulrichite and fluorapatite from Lake Boga. This specimen has excellent crystals. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 180 images. Ex...
Pale greenish rounded pseudohexagonal twins of tridymite with goethite(?). Oxidation due to the breakdown of either ilmenite or magnetite. You can see the hexagonal outline of the tridymite here and there.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Colourless gypsum crystals on green chrysocolla (labelled as pseudomalachite). Acquired by Joan in 1995 from John Toma while on a field trip to Lake Boga. Width 9mm. Stack of 30 images.
Sharp green crystals of molybdofornacite on tabular yellow wulfenite with cream zoned hexagonal pyromorphite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 37 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Stubby orange crystals with unknown powdery yellow material. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 71 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Black spheres of goethite on blue plumbogummite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Basketweave siderite with colourless drillbit twin phillipsite-Na crystals. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 38 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Pale creamy greenish-yellow tufts of kidwellite with glassy lilac strengite crystals. Width 3.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Colourless natrolite needles with a pink base, possibly caused by hematite, on phacolitic chabazite crystals (probably chabazite-Na). Width 9mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Small pyrite cubes with minor octahedral corners, colourless to orange stellerite crystals and white laumontite. Height 4.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Small flakes of gold on vein quartz and on galena. Also present in one cavity – malachite and cerussite. Possible acanthite on silver in another. Width 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Pale blue aurichalcite with white hydrozincite and pink calcite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 162 images. Ex Jo Price Collection. Below: Nodular white hydrozincite with blue aurichalcite and pale pink calcite. Width of view 6mm. Stack...
Many flakes of gold on matrix. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Green pyromorphite crystals with sharp orange-red crocoite crystals. Width 3.25mm, stack of 102 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Tiny crystals of calcite, phillipsite and chabazite on the sides of aragonite needles. Aragonite fluoresces white with a fading greenish afterglow. Photo width 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Agate-patterned calcite, commonly called eye agates, are generally found loose on the eastern side of the bay. Video best viewed full screen.
Labelled pseudomalachite and does look like it. But more likely cornwallite(?) given the occurrence of many arsenate minerals at Mt Bonnie. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width 9mm, stack of 70 images.
Single crystal with neat phantoms. Video best viewed full screen.
Terminated crystals of blue beryl with colourless crystals of sellaite and quartz. Fluorite was picked up by fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. A yellow-orange fluorescence may be non-crystalline sellaite. In the fluorescent photos, there are also...
White natrolite and red (hematite-stained) gmelinite in a vugh in basalt. Video best viewed full screen.
Many crystals not terminated. The largest terminated crystal has smaller parallel growth crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
Collected August 2010 by Dave Rosewall and Paul Melville. Video best viewed full screen.
Predominantly blue and green thin opal seams.
Ex Ron Galbraith Collection, Northern Districts. Video best viewed full screen.
Feathery apple-green sprays of the rare copper uranium phosphate, ulrichite. 5mm across.
A tiny calcite crystal is perched on hematite-coated gmelinite in a vugh of analcime. Collected when it was called Fieldwicks Quarry. Video best viewed full screen.
K & M Brown Collection Video best viewed full screen.
Blebs of purple stichtite enclosing relict chromite in serpentine. One face polished. Type Locality. Video best viewed full screen.
Mass of arborescent copper. Video best viewed full screen.
Pink rhodochrosite with small white crystals (kutnohorite?). These white crystals are also included in the quartz. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Yellow fluorescence under longwave (indicating the presence of molybdenum). Bluish-white under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Cave-formation white aragonite. Bright white fluorescence with pale blue crystal tips under longwave, pale pink under shortwave.
A rich specimen of apple-green micro crystals of ulrichite.
Blocky malachite crystals on cuprite and quartz.
Grey complex dolomite crystals with a single brownish cerussite crystal from the Kintore open cut, Broken Hill. In addition, there are tufts of an unknown white mineral. Candidates could be sepiolite (not recorded at Broken...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
Ex Ambros Kissling Collection
A single blocky hydroxyapophyllite-(K) crystal on a bed of prismatic colourless natrolite crystals. Width of view 10mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Mick Hately Collection. Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Roger Colling Collection
