Originally purchased from Marino Cristofli, a former miner from Dimbulah on 13th June 1996. Ex Martin Jensen Collection number MJ3254. 34x22x20mm. Pink-red fluorescence.
Golden barite crystals with goethite balls on the surface and native copper inclusions. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of pale yellow barite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 at the Hobart Joint Mineralogical Societies Seminar from Brian Beyer for $5.
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.
One large crystal with a cluster of smaller ones from a locality best known for its opal. Width of view 22mm.
Dendritic copper in yellow barite. Width of specimen 20mm. Ex George Stacey.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from June and Bob Gleeson at the Echuca Gemkana.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Brian Beyer for $6.00 at the New South Wales Mineralogical Societies Seminar.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Brian Beyer for $10.00 at the New South Wales Mineralogical Societies Seminar.
Acquired by Joan Lamond at Tamborine Mountain in 1990.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show in 1998. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Group of stacked azurite crystals. Ex George Reimherr Collection. 21mm wide.
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.
White pseudocubes with a slight pinkish tinge (altering to erythrite). Width 18.5mm. Stack of 109 images. Ex Diederik Visser.
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.
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 pink erythrite crystals and masses. Cobaltite as cubes mostly replaced by tan hörnesite. Black/purplish heterogenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width 4.5mm.
Mass of arborescent copper. Video best viewed full screen.
Yellow fluorescence under longwave (indicating the presence of molybdenum). Bluish-white under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
Blocky malachite crystals on cuprite and quartz.
Ex Mick Hately Collection. Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
Ex Jim Ferraiolo. Under magnification, you can see pink hemispheres of an unidentified mineral.
Drusy quartz over azurite. Width of view 2mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unusual azurite with the appearance of white edges. Width of view 2mm. Stack of 53 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee. Monochrome photo.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee. Monochrome photo.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Confirmed SEM/EDS, John Carey
Confirmed SEM/EDS, John Carey
ex Patrick C. Murphy, ex Darren Lucas
Single colourless crystal
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Curled crystals. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Jack and Dawn Leach Collection. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Specimen measures 28x23x16mm.
Tony Forsyth 9/05
Received R Wolfe 2/2005
Type Locality. Crystal inclusions in melt veins.
JL1176. Ex Museum Victoria
Judy Rowe’s daughter’s house
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Margaret Day.
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Copper pseudomorph after cuprite.
Cluster of calcite crystals from inside a geode
