A couple of dark cuprite crystals with iridescent dendritic copper. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Purchased by Joan from Brian Beyer for $1 at the Australasian Mineral Societies Seminar in Melbourne in 1990. Width of view...
Blue bladed crystals of likasite on cuprite (top left). Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green pseudo-octahedral crystals with bluish-green pseudomalachite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark green pseudo-octahedral crystals on dark brown goethite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark green, almost black, libethenite crystals. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green libethenite crystals that have grown in a restricted width fracture resulting in some with a bladed habit. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Aggregates of pink and green bladed crystals of leucophosphite. The colours are probably being transmitted from the underlying material. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image...
Blocky reddish lepidocrocite crystals on a goethite matrix. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue crystals in a granite pegmatite matrix. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
Colourless fluorite that fluoresces zoned green under medium and shortwave, with minium under fluorite (not in photo). Hydrocerussite/laurionite occurs as a creamy aggregate, pink and purple fluorescence under mediumwave, duller under shortwave. Tiny acicular pyromorphite...
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Ian Hammond Collection. Tiny light blue crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Colourless crystals. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale greenish-yellow tufts of kidwellite with pale purple strengite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. White nodule 19mm wide. Ex John and Betty Weir.
Very pale tufts of kidwellite with greenish-yellow cyrilovite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny pale greenish-yellow crystal sprays. Ex Michael Hirst. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow bladed crystals. Ex Ian Everard. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale yellow sprays of flat bladed crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Golden fibrous crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Golden matted fibres, with some pseudomorphing to goethite. Ex Vince Peisley. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown crystals in a cavity. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 10 and 70 images. Matrix in one small area shows a dull green fluorescence under shortwave UV. Ex Jo Price Collection. Click on the...
Brown crystals in cavities in quartz. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow crystalline aggregates of jarosite with minor colourless gypsum crystals on a goethite matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality. Reddish brown aggregates. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange crystals of jahnsite with black natrodufrenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous jacobsite modified octahedrons. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Jacobsite crystals on typical hematite matrix. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black modified octahedral crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black opaque and brown resinous mineral with possible samarskite, and a small amount of fluorescent autunite? A titanite crystal is embedded in the matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the...
Small green titanite with darker green actinolite and black ilmenite of orange stilbite-Ca. Specimen measures 39x30x14mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thick platy crystals of ilmenite with interesting surface features, and a couple of quartz crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless rounded aggregate of hydroxylapatite with thin sword-shaped colourless scholzite crystals, and unidentified green mineral (plimerite?). Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Tiny colourless but mostly iron-stained crystals on a goethite matrix. Ex Vince Peisley. Identified for Vince by Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
White alteration coating of hydroglauberite on glauberite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark brown hemispheres of hollandite. In front of the hollandite are corroded hollowed out hedyphane crystals. Ex Jack and Dawn Leach Collection. Ex Gordon Jackson Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click...
Tiny pale hillite crystals on scholzite with purplish hemispheres of collinsite. Tiny green balls of plimerite are also present. Type Locality for hillite. Ex Joan Lamond specimen 3823. Joan acquired it from a Whyalla tailgater...
White hexagonal hedyphane crystals that fluoresces orange, with yellow-green prismatic austinite crystals. Minor calcite, more evident in the UV photo. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images (white light) and 16 images (UV). Click...
Pseudo-octahedral grey crystals of hausmannite. Ex Leon Schmidt. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bladed hausmannite looking like hematite with brown calcite. Ex Barry Schubert Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny white areas of halloysite on dark green atacamite. Ex Mal Annells Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A close up photo of the specimen Judy Rowe uploaded to Mindat in 2014 (https://www.mindat.org/photo-615149.html). The pink colour has disappeared. That is because it is caused by a bacteria, and that bacteria has gone on...
Better-known for its green gypsum, this locality also occasionally produces little surprises like this one. Halite cubes perched on the termination of a gypsum crystal. Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Height of view 9.7mm. Stack...
A cluster of colourless to white cubes. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless cubes with a slightly melted look. Width of view 14.4mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange grossular (hessonite) garnets. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fragments of nodules analysed as containing goyazite, hematite and apatite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 30 images.
Tiny transparent crystals. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin gold patches smeared on hematite matrix. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small patches of gold in ironstone matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1996 from John Toma. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Labelled “Nhillinghoo”. Should be spelled Nillinghoo. Probably from Kirkeeks. Gold in goethite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 53 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Box of “Devil’s Dice” of various sizes, most less than 1cm in size. The one in the photo is 45x45x25mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Box of “Devil’s Dice” of various sizes, most less than 1cm in size. Centre one is 14mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Trigonal hematite crystals that have been completely replaced by goethite, with minor colourless hyalite opal. Ex Barry Schubert Collection. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Colourless crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Massive white peisleyite finely intergrown on a μm scale with fluorwavellite. SEM shows that ‘massive peisleyite’ consists of zones of intergrown peisleyite crystals (<3 μm in size) forming mats intermixed with zones of massive ‘wavellite’...
Bright green crystalline aggregates of this rare selenium mineral. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow material labelled as francevillite or carnotite, on davidite-(La). It is most likely carnotite but would need analysis to confirm. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a...
Tiny colourless fluorite crystals with red minium in a void that would have originally been a galena crystal. Also present, colourless to white acicular (calcium-rich?) pyromorphite crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images....
A bit of layering here. The bottom layer is quartz crystals, and they are completely covered in goethite. Next is white dickite. On top of the dickite are colourless-grey fluorite cubes (not fluorescent). These in...
Light purple over some green fluorite octahedral crystals to 10mm with quartz. The green fluorite exhibits blue fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet, but not the purple fluorite. Specimen measures 59mm wide. Click on the image below...
Dark purple over green fluorite octahedral crystals to 8mm with quartz. The green fluorite exhibits blue fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet, but not the purple fluorite. Specimen measures 53mm wide. Click on the image below for...
A single colourless hexagonal prism of fluorapatite. The greenish yellow mineral is cyrilovite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 140 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pinkish-yellowish blocky fluellite crystals with sugary pale greenish turquoise. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky fluellite crystals looking brown due to transmitted matrix colour, white acicular wavellite and colourless flat-lying prismatic crystals of minyulite. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a...
Grey hexagonal tabular crystals of finnemanite with long prisms of willemite, and metallic chalcophanite. Ex Barry Shubert Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Pale blue botryoidal faustite with a few tiny glassy colourless wardite crystals, and metallic hematite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Pale sky blue hemispheres with white cores of copper-bearing faustite. The outer portions may grade to zinc-bearing turquoise. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Pink erythrite (look closely, some crystals are bent), blue lavendulan and olive-green cobaltaustinite. Cobaltite crystals are present, enbedded in the matrix, but not in this image. First photo: Width of view 7.66mm. Stack of 85...
Erythrite as deep pink crystals and pale pink botryoidal cobalt bloom with unidentified lilac patches. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown crystals identified as ernstite by the late Vince Peisley. There has been doubt cast on the validity of ernstite at this locality, as the original material can not be found, and subsequent pieces analysed...
Parallel aggregates of grey, partly tarnished crystals with white kaolinite. Ex Mal Annells Collection #1424. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 99 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green crystal fragment 19mm long with interesting parallel growth faces. The C axis runs from left to right. Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Gemmy blue terminated crystal 14mm long with lepidolite at the termination (crystal shown “upside down”). Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single terminated crystal 14.5mm long, green with a black cap. Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single 15mm long terminated crystal, mostly green then a small blue section and a black cap. Collected by Vince Peisley. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark greenish black dufrénite with almost colourless leucophosphite. Also on specimen but not in photo, morinite and cyrilovite. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 95 images. Click on the image below for...
Olive green crust of tiny crystals of dufrénite, with pinkish-white strengite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 2001. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a...
Dark greenish-blue dufrenite with greenish-yellow to brown cyrilovite. Ex Barry Schubert. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Very dark green crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 145 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny blue crystals of domerock (eg: centre of image) with green balls of conichalcite (eg two spheres top right of photo) and white kaolinite. Type Locality. Width of view 2.88mm. Stack of 26 images. Click...
Pale blue tiny crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 62 images.
A lot going on in a small space here. A layer of calcite is coated by quartz, then yellow spheres of dolomite. On top of this sits a malachite after cuprite crystal aggregate, and then...
White curved rhombs of dolomite on matrix. Labelled EZ Mine. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Multiple generations of dolomite. First chocolate-coloured rhombohedra, followed by a much paler (yellow-coated) layer over the same crystals (possibly just a change in chemical composition), with a final white opaque crust here and there. Also,...
Multiple generations of dolomite. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White rhombohedra. Specimen is 60mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rhombohedral dolomite with oxidised pyrite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1983 at the Adelaide Mineralogical Seminar. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Roxbyite inclusions in massive djurleite. 22x11x6mm. Type Locality for roxbyite. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1983 at the Adelaide Mineralogical Seminar. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Arborescent copper crystal group 16mm wide.
White dickite with dark green atacamite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 90 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Roger Colling Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1999. Click on the image below for a higher...
Four crude crystals, largest 16mm wide. Ex Trevor Dart. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Fairly sharp crystal 10mm across. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Purchased by Joan from Peter Anderson for $5 in 1995. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bright thin leaf gold sitting up from matrix.
Superb blue sprays of connellite in slag.
Fluorescent red calcite and a pyrite ring.
Stunning chalcopyrite crystals looking hoppered with balls of goethite needles on barite.
Greenish-yellow cyrilovite on goethite and kapundaite. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue crust. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue-black covellite in massive quartz. Also present but not in photo, sulphur and jarosite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 24 items. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue-black crystals of covellite on iridescent chalcopyrite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Acquired by Margaret in 1994 from Trevor Dart. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 66 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Light green spheres of conichalcite with pale blue agardite and chrysocolla. Tiny spheres of hyalite opal on some of the agardite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click...
Green spheres in a gossanous matrix. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Botryoidal green conichalcite replacing olivenite(?). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green spheres of conichalcite with pale needles of agardite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small clusters of colourless quartz on a bed of conichalcite. Quartz crystals are uncommon. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-grey rounded aggregates of collinsite (possibly coloured by underlying cryptomelane) with prismatic scholzite crystals and tiny colourless rhombohedral-looking hillite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the...
Superb blue sprays of connellite with prismatic green brochantite and a couple of green malachite hemispheres, in slag. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Acquired from Greg Vort-Ronald at the 2022 Palmer Show,...
Olive-green cobaltaustinite replacing cubes of cobaltite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark olive-green coating of cobaltaustinite with lustrous purple-pink erythrite crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Dome Rock is the Type Locality for cobaltaustinite. Click on the image below...
Pale blue chrysocolla replacing azurite crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black crystals of chloritoid. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny green chlorargyrite crystal embedded in matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green crusty-looking material. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hematite crystals on a hollowed out chalcopyrite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Silver chalcophanite with colourless thin prismatic scholzite crystals and white hemimorphite after smithsonite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Quite blocky green malachite crystals. Acquired by me at the 2022 Gemkana from the Waverley Gem Club stall. Ex John Wren Collection. Acquired by John in 1986 for $4 from the Waverley Gem Club stall....
Pseudohexagonal crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green afterglow. Ex Barry Schubert. Width of view 28mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Chrysocolla as blue patches and as green coatings and/or replacement of malachite. Green unaltered malachite also present. Some malachite altered to goethite, and goethite also present as the coating of vughs possibly coating or replacing...
A light blue crust, probably post-mining. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A twinned cassiterite crystal with a small smoky quartz crystal at the centre, no matrix. A gift from, and collected by, the late Albert Chapman. Width of view 14mm. Stack of 66 images. Click on...
Type Locality for davidite-(La). Old German label. Yellow carnotite on massive davidite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Curved white crystals. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded scalenohedral crystals. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Labelled simply Lyndhurst, but likely the Avondale Mine. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Transparent colourless prismatic calcite crystals with photo showing termination. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 20 images. Labelled as Moonta, but more likely Wallaroo. Click on the image below for a...
Transparent colourless prismatic calcite crystals with chlorite(?) inclusion. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rosettes of pale greenish-yellow platy crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1984. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images.
A tiny needle of greenish rutile on an orange brookite on a larger dark anatase crystal. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single crystal of bornite pseudomorphing pyrite. Width of crystal 15mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red carminite with green beudantite-segnitite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 45 images (first photo). Width of view 5mm. Stack of 80 images (second photo). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Wavellite bow-ties. Ex John Lewis Collection.
Blocky colourless barite crystals with sharp blue azurite. Acquired from John Haupt 4/06. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree in 1994. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Complex yellow crystals of barite on goethite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1980.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 2000 on a Victorian Mineralogical Society field trip.
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.
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.
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 55 images.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 at the Castlemaine Gemkana from a tailgater from Whyalla for $0.50.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
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.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2001 from a Tailgater at the Wagga Gemboree.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2001 from a Tailgater at the Wagga Gemboree.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995. Ex Museum Victoria.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1993 on a Mineralogical Society field trip.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002. Ex Ralph Segnit Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Judy Rowe in 1998. Labelled as “Mannum”.
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.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from George Williams in 1999 at the Castlemaine Gemkana for $1.50.
Dark green crystals in a small vugh. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Obtained from Albert Schrander-Hettinga 2/2005.
Crystal fragment of green elbaite, capped by schorl, then more green elbaite growing on an angle (broken and healed?).
Single crystal, etched termination, very pale pink and green.
Single unterminated brown crystal (dravite?).
Single terminated crystal, root-beer brown.
Watermelon tourmaline, pink core, green rim. Not terminated.
Single terminated black crystal.
Green elbaite rims over black schorl core.
Green hexagonal prisms of pyromorphite with off-white cerussite (orange fluorescence) and white calcite (white fluorescence). Specimen measures 60x50x32mm.
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.
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...
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...
Sharp brown jarosite crystals with rainbow goethite. Width 9mm. Stack of 34 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.
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.
Ex Ron Galbraith Collection, Northern Districts. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Cave-formation white aragonite. Bright white fluorescence with pale blue crystal tips under longwave, pale pink under shortwave.
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond at the 2001 Wagga Gemboree from a tailgater.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 from the late Frank Robinson.
Ferrian variscite from the Ashley Watt Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree in 1994.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 7mm. Stack 0f 11 images.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
