5677 Gold, Sebastopol, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Small amount of gold in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 70 images.
Australia
8201 M3884 Cuprite, Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory
Deep red octahedral crystals when strongly lit. Width 11mm. Stack of 116 images. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection.
5675 Cowlesite, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
One of the rarer zeolites. Silky white sprays. Width 11mm. Stack of 140 images.
9045 JP2202 Lavendulan, Alice Mary Mine, Kundip, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia
Light blue crust on matrix. Width 11mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9043 JP2247 Rutile, Dravite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Blocky brown rutile crystals with green-brown prismatic dravite. Height 5.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9120 JP2802 Gold, Bendigo, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Gold (trying very hard to be an octahedral crystal) in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 58 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9060 JP2643 Chalcocite, Telfer Mine, Rudall River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia
Sharp platy crystals. Width 7mm, stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9037 JP2292 Gold, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Very small patches of hackly gold embedded in quartz. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9036 JP2344 Bismuth, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Silvery-white crystalline native bismuth. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9039 JP2278 Pyromorphite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Collected on the Pinnacles Dumps. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 54 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9026 JP2279 Libethenite, Plimerite, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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...
5672 Gold, Goethite, New Penrose Mine, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Small amount of gold with iridescent goethite in white quartz.
5671 Gold, Goethite, New Penrose Mine, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Bright gold patches with iridescent goethite in white quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 50 images.
28002 VH34 Fluorite, Calcite, North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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.
28001 VH230 Stolzite, Pyromorphite, Sphalerite, Anglesite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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...
9021 JP2347 Coronadite, Pyromorphite, Kaolinite?, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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.
9020 JP2381 Arsenopyrite, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
9089 JP2810 Fluorite, Goethite, Quartz, Blue Hills, Agate Creek, Etheridge Shire, Queensland
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.
9017 JP2203 Jarosite, Goethite, Wiperaminga Hill West Quarry (Wipperaminga Hill), Boolcoomatta Reserve (Boolcoomata Station; Boolcoomatta), Olary Province, South Australia
Sharp brown jarosite crystals with rainbow goethite. Width 9mm. Stack of 34 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9012 JP2963 Zircon, Middle Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
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...
9011 JP2991 Powellite, Dundee, Gough Co., New South Wales
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...
20055 Tridymite, Spring Hill, Macedon Ranges, Victoria
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.
7231 JL1610 Chrysocolla, Gypsum, Trafalgar Mine (Mount Oscar Mine), Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
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.
9135 JP2645 Molybdofornacite, Wulfenite, Pyromorphite, Whim Creek Copper Mine (Whim Creek Copper prospect; Whim Well Mine), Whim Creek, Roebourne Shire, Western Australia
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.
9132 JP2682 Crocoite, Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Stubby orange crystals with unknown powdery yellow material. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 71 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9122 JP2754 Plumbogummite, Goethite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Black spheres of goethite on blue plumbogummite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9114 JP2734 Phillipsite-Na, Siderite, Pioneer quarry, Narre Warren North, City of Casey, Victoria
Basketweave siderite with colourless drillbit twin phillipsite-Na crystals. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 38 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9107 JP2756 Kidwellite, Strengite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Pale creamy greenish-yellow tufts of kidwellite with glassy lilac strengite crystals. Width 3.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9009 JP2205 Natrolite, Chabazite-Na, Ardglen Quarry (State Rail Quarry), Ardglen, Buckland Co., New South Wales
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.
9097 JP2308 Laumontite, Pyrite, Stellerite, Graham Quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
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.
9008 JP2389 Gold, Galena, Wirrealpa Mine (Flinders Range Silver Lead NL; Donkey Bore Prospect), Wirrealpa homestead area, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
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.
9088 JP2652 Aurichalcite, Hydrozincite, Calcite, Narlarla Mine (Barker Gorge), Napier Downs Station, Derby-West Kimberley Shire, Western Australia
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...
9076 JP2761 Gold, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Many flakes of gold on matrix. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9072 JP2642 Crocoite, Pyromorphite, Platt Prospect, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Green pyromorphite crystals with sharp orange-red crocoite crystals. Width 3.25mm, stack of 102 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9007 JP2350 Aragonite, Calcite, Phillipsite-K, Chabazite-Ca, Trentham Falls, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
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.
30101 Calcite, Kitty Miller Bay, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Agate-patterned calcite, commonly called eye agates, are generally found loose on the eastern side of the bay. Video best viewed full screen.
9001 JP2561 Duftite, Cornwallite, Mt Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory
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.
30100 Smoky Quartz, Silent Grove, Clive Co., New South Wales
Single crystal with neat phantoms. Video best viewed full screen.
2191 Beryl, Sellaite, Quartz, Fluorite, Mt Bischoff, Waratah, Tasmania
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...
30099 Natrolite, Gmelinite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
White natrolite and red (hematite-stained) gmelinite in a vugh in basalt. Video best viewed full screen.
30094 Crocoite, Gibbsite, 2010 Pocket, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Many crystals not terminated. The largest terminated crystal has smaller parallel growth crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
30093 Pyromorphite, Malachite, Emerald Pocket, Brown’s Prospect, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory
Collected August 2010 by Dave Rosewall and Paul Melville. Video best viewed full screen.
5666 Opal, Lightning Ridge, Finch Co., New South Wales
Predominantly blue and green thin opal seams.
30086 Azurite, Burra Mine, Burra, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Ex Ron Galbraith Collection, Northern Districts. Video best viewed full screen.
2639 Ulrichite, Lake Boga, Victoria
Feathery apple-green sprays of the rare copper uranium phosphate, ulrichite. 5mm across.
30079 Gmelinite, Calcite, Analcime, Hematite, Little Plains Quarry (Fieldwicks Quarry), Blue Tier district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania
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.
4375 Prehnite, Gunnedah, New South Wales
K & M Brown Collection Video best viewed full screen.
30074 Stichtite, Chromite, Stichtite Hill, Dundas, Tasmania
Blebs of purple stichtite enclosing relict chromite in serpentine. One face polished. Type Locality. Video best viewed full screen.
Deaccessioned 30071 Copper, Ankerite, Cloncurry District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Mass of arborescent copper. Video best viewed full screen.
30062 Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Kutnohorite, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
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.
30059 Libethenite, Burra Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30055 Scheelite, Wolfram Camp, Dimbulah, Queensland, Australia
Yellow fluorescence under longwave (indicating the presence of molybdenum). Bluish-white under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
30052 Pyromorphite, Limestone Creek, Benambra, Victoria, Australia
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30051 Aragonite, Penrice marble quarry, Angaston, Barossa Valley, North Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Cave-formation white aragonite. Bright white fluorescence with pale blue crystal tips under longwave, pale pink under shortwave.
30050 Ulrichite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia
A rich specimen of apple-green micro crystals of ulrichite.
0506 Malachite, Cuprite, Quartz, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland
Blocky malachite crystals on cuprite and quartz.
0503 Dolomite, Cerussite, Unknown White, Kintore Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South WalesÂ
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...
7406 JL0615 Gold, Ballarat, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
ncat VHD15, Galena, Siderite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
Ex Ambros Kissling Collection
ncat VHD15 Natrolite, Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Ardglen, New South Wales
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.
ncat VHD15, Molybdenite, Kitchener Mine, Almaden, Mareeba Shire, Queensland
Ex Mick Hately Collection. Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
ncat VHD10, Vivianite, Wannon Falls, Victoria
Ex Roger Colling Collection
ncat VHD10, Quartz, Wadnaminga, South Australia
Ex Roger Colling Collection
ncat VHD10, Copper, Wallaroo, South Australia
Ex Roger Colling Collection
ncat VHD10, Hematite, Quartz, Iron Monarch Mine, Iron Knob, South Australia
Ex Roger Colling Collection