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 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.
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 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.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
10mm across and much more intense blue than you normally see.
Labelled as limonite after sphalerite, Barry Schubert
White quartz overgrown smoky quartz.
Weird ribcage growth of quartz.
Terminated schorl crystals in granite matrix
White quartz overgrown smoky quartz.
Beta style quartz crystals with a smoky tint, with hematite as inclusions, and larger hematite blades alongside. Ex Roger Colling Collection #58.
Cluster of gemmy colourless quartz crystals. Ex Roger Colling Collection #375. Probably collected down hill east of the Victoria Tower mine in the 1980s (Murray Thompson personal communication).
Thin lacy native copper. Ex Roger Colling Collection #217.
Type Locality. 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 John Toma. 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
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
ex Jack Leach Collection
ex Jack Leach Collection
Single terminated crystal, green with a black cap.
Single crystal, etched termination, very pale pink and green.
Crystal fragment of green elbaite, capped by schorl, then more green elbaite growing on an angle (broken and healed?).
Blue unterminated crystal with lepidolite crystal attached to termination.
Green crystal fragment with interesting growth faces.
Single terminated crystal, mostly green then a small blue section and a black cap.
Single unterminated brown crystal (dravite?).
Single terminated crystal, root-beer brown.
Single terminated black crystal.
Watermelon tourmaline, pink core, green rim. Not terminated.
Green elbaite rims over black schorl core.
Flattened pale smoky quartz.
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
Albert Schrander-Hettinga 2/2005
Albert Schrander-Hettinga 2/2005
Albert Schrander-Hettinga 2/2005
Albert Schrander-Hettinga 2/2005
Type Locality. Orange crystals.
Type locality. Gatehouseite was first found at Iron Monarch in 1987. It occurs as radiating clusters of pale yellow and yellow to pale brownish orange micro crystals with barite and hematite.
JL1374. Geoff Randall $5
JL1547. Barry Porter $2
A E Seaman Mineral Museum (Donor T Lipton Hancock)
JL1590. Peter Anderson $5
JL1379. Geoff Randall $5
JL1463. Brian Beyer $1
Pseudomorph. Margaret Brown Collection
Coloured green by copper chlorides
