4170 Zircon, Cassidy Creek, Boat Harbour, Tasmania
Single terminated crystal, green with a black cap.
Australia
4168 Natrolite, Kindred Quarry, Kindred, Tasmania
Single terminated crystal, mostly green then a small blue section and a black cap.
4169 Arsenopyrite, Pyrite, Quartz, Beaconsfield Gold Mine, Beaconsfield, Tasmania
Single unterminated brown crystal (dravite?).
4165 Opal, Calcite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
Single terminated black crystal.
4166 Elbaite, Dudley pegmatite, Penneshaw, Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Watermelon tourmaline, pink core, green rim. Not terminated.
4163 Chabazite, Calcite, Stilbite, Lonnavale, Tasmania
Green elbaite rims over black schorl core.
4164 Calcite, Actinolite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
Flattened pale smoky quartz.
4092 Stilbite(?), Proctors Road Quarry, Mt Nelson, Tasmania
Self Collected 2005
4090 Siderite, Quartz, Aberfoyle Mine Dumps, Rossarden, Tasmania
Self Collected 2005
4091 Muscovite, Aberfoyle Mine Dumps, Rossarden, Tasmania
Self Collected 2005
4086 Pyrite, North Pit, Savage River Mine, Tasmania
Self Collected 2005
4084 Stilbite, Proctors Road Quarry, Mt Nelson, Tasmania
Self Collected 2005
4079 Wagnerite, McMahons Quarry, Olary, South Australia
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
4075 Simpsonite, Tabba Tabba Pegmatite, Western Australia
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
4072 Rutherfordine, El Sharana Mine, Northern Territory
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
4049 Huntite, Pitts Quarry, Tea Tree Gully, South Australia
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
3977 Anatase, Philosophers Ridge, Mt Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania
Steeply pyramidal anatase crystals on hematite-included quartz. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Collected on one of my many trips to the location. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3967 Stolzite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
Shane Dohnt via Mark Hallam
3957 Quartz (Japan Law Twin), Slaughteryard Face, Mt Bischoff, Tasmania
Collected by Ray Grant 2001
3950 Hillite, Scholzite, Reaphook Hill, South Australia
Albert Schrander-Hettinga 2/2005
Deaccessioned 3943 Quartz (Smoky), Mooralla, Victoria
Dehne McLaughlin 2/2005
3946 Cerussite, Hydrocerussite(?), Black Star Open Cut, Mt Isa, Queensland
Received R Wolfe 2/2005
3948 Perhamite, Tom’s Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia
Albert Schrander-Hettinga 2/2005
3933 Calcite after Ikaite (Glendonite), New South Wales
Hetty’s Rockshop 9/2004
3931 Quartz (Smoky), Heemskirk Range, near Zeehan, Tasmania
Noel Curtis 11/2004
3747 Selwynite, Coppermine Lane, Heathcote, Victoria
Rock made up of chromite, augite, mica and another Cr mineral
3419 Pyrargyrite, Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania
Not analysed. Could be pyrargyrite or proustite.
