Thin hexagonal plates of levyne. Nearby cavities have phillipsite or chabazite. Ex Mat Latham. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Reddish brown lepidocrocite on grey anglesite crystals. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Found in driveway gravel that was known to have come from the quarry. White flat-laying crystals of laumontite that fluoresces bluish-purple (best under medium wave) with small hematite crystals. Width of view 9mm and stack...
White (dehydrating) laumontite with colourless chabazite and stilbite. The laumontite is very unstable, and unfortunately not only breaks down itself, but also the matrix. Photo widths 6mm. Stack of 45 images (laumontite) and 65 images...
A mass of blue crystals on a small piece of matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cream kutnohorite with pyrite on a quartz matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink cobalt and nickel-bearing köttigite acicular crystals in a vein of sulphides – sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and arsenopyrite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Pink cobalt and nickel-bearing köttigite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown topaz crystals embedded in white kaolinite on the side of a quartz crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black phenocrysts embedded in matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow crystalline material from within a quartz vein. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Osmiridium grains. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded grains of osmiridium with sharp black crystals of chromite collected by Rusty Morley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A jumble of intense red mostly terminated crocoite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky colourless crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless to white hydromagnesite crystals on serpentine. Specimen measures 90x55x45mm. Close up photo width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
A ball of crystals of hydromagnesite with white pearly dypingite. Specimen Measures 60x40x15mm. Closeup photo width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A brown scheelite crystal with white calcite on silvery black hübnerite. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale greenish-yellow cerussite crystals showing signs of reticulated twinning. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous black horizontally striated crystals with steep terminations. Analysed by Peter Elliott. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark green to black hastingsite with purple fluorite and calcite that fluoresces orange. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Three pieces. Photo shows red-violet hardystonite(?), orange-red sphalerite, greenish-yellow smithsonite(?) and unknown bluish-white mineral. Longwave ultraviolet light. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 22 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
Twinned harmotome, including “drill bit” habit. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An efflorescence in a gel capsule. White halotrichite and pale yellow melanterite. Identified by Ralph Bottrill. Width of view 7.25mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Crude cubes of halite found on the protected underside of a piece of broken crockery at a location known as “Treasure Beach”. Here, broken crockery and glass had been dumped in the early days of...
A classic and really cute example of epitaxy. Chalcopyrite epitaxial on a sphalerite crystal. And to add to the cuteness, there are some tiny tetrahedrite crystals bottom left of photo. Width of view 6mm. Stack...
Tiny sprays of post-mining gypsum crystals collected on the dumps. Look closely and you can some fishtail twins (eg: near the centre of the photo). Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on...
Cream ball of gyrolite with white tacharanite on colourless phillipsite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny off-white scheelite crystals (not in photo) and pale green grossular garnets. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small grey-green grossular garnets with white wollastonite and yellow-orange vesuvianite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olivine-green crude crystals of grossular embedded in magnetite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A twinned yellow crystal on gossan. There looks to be a possible arsenopyrite crystal that perhaps the cerussite seeded on. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a...
Green partial coating on sphalerite crystals on dolomite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Off white fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet may be calcite partially coating dolomite. Click on the image below for a...
Purplish-grey grimaldiite in a crocoite vugh. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow exsolution of greenockite-hawleyite on sphalerite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenockite as a yellow coating/exsolution on sphalerite crystals. Some tiny orange crystals of greenockite evident particularly in the bottom left-hand quadrant (zoom in to explore). Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on...
From the mine best known for its crocoite comes a rarer occurrence, zoned mimetite crystals. There are interesting rounded surface features too. Probably where the mimetite was attached to ferro-manganese oxides. Hexagonal prisms of zoned...
A group of cube-octahedral galena crystals with hoppered faces. Width of view 8mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Olive green cubes partially coated by goethite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A mass of acicular metallic wires on quartz. Ex John Haupt. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Iridescent stannite, no crystals. Ex David J. Eicher Collection, Wisconsin. Ex John H. Eicher Collection. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Transparent green hexagonal prisms, some zoned. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acicular intergrowth of white gonnardite-natrolite on grey botryoidal thomsonite-Ca. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale fluorite over earlier darker fluorite with iron stained quartz crystals. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 92 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hexagonal crystal of molybdenite. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A waterworn bluish topaz 24mm wide.
Hexagonal crystal with a white core and a lustrous colourless outer layer. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
This crystal is coloured by hematite. On colourless analcime. A nearby cavity has a colourless calcite crystal. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic gmelinite crystals. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Highly lustrous colourless gmelinite crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A mass of silver needles of franckeite with black sphalerite, purple fluorite, tan magnesite, and not in photo, pyrite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A mass of silver needles of franckeite with a little purple fluorite and tan magnesite. Specimen measures 55x40x20mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brown to black tourmaline crystals, probably schorl or fluor-schorl, but could also be foitite based on recent analyses of tourmalines from this area. Specimen measures 22x18x17mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Silver metallic bismuthinite on green fluorite that fluoresces under longwave UV. Specimen measures 13x15x7mm. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Dark purple, almost black botryoidal fluorite. Specimen measures 20x18x8mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hackly silver-rich gold in fluorite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hackly silver-rich gold in mostly grey fluorite with a hint of purple. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless fluorite cubes that fluoresce blue under longwave ultraviolet, partially coated with siderite. Tiny pyrite crystals also present. Width of view 11.5mm. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Given the name “Lost City of Bischoff” when I first found it, this is one side of a ferroan magnesite crystal that had grown up against stepped fluorite that is no longer there. The core...
A lot happening on this specimen. In the white light photo, you can see tabular pale blue hexagonal fluorapatite crystals with muscovite mica, and brown areas appear to be goethite coating cassiterite. In the longwave...
Small speck of gold in iron ore. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Slightly yellowish tabular crystals of hydroxyapophyllite-(K) on colourless phillipsite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous cassiterite crystals and luinaite on and in quartz. Tiny rosettes of tan siderite on the cassiterite. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for...
Creamy white pearly ferroaluminoceladonite with blue beryl and grey sellaite on a skeletal quartz matrix. Width of view 32mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny prismatic sprays of dark green-black crystals. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink grains of eudialyte or manganoeudialyte with/in andradite, and phenocrysts of sanidine in a green groundmass. Other species likely present but would need analysis to confirm. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75. Click on...
Hexagonal silver crystals with other manganese phases. 2022 mining. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2022 production. Crystals 22mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2022 production. Longest crystal is 30mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Non-descript looking material. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A green epidote crystal impaled on pyrite, all on dark brown andradite garnet. Presumably, the epidote interrupted the growth of the pyrite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below...
White botryoidal spheres, some coloured green by nickel. Ex Joan Lamond Collection, Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1989 from John Haupt. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for...
White acicular clusters of dundasite with minor red crocoite. This photo clearly shows the challenge of getting clean specimens from the gossans of the mines in the area! Type Locality for dundasite. Width of view...
Clusters of snow-white crystals on prismatic orange crocoite. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale green to white balls of dypingite in serpentine. Ex Jack Leach Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Creamy balls of dundasite with bright white tips to the crystals, and a few tiny crocoite crystals. Labelled as Red Lead Mine, this is clearly a Kapi Mine specimen. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of...
Collected 2/2005. Brown prismatic tourmaline crystals, visually identified by Ralph Bottrill as dravite at the time of collecting, but not analysed to my knowledge. Probably better described as dravite-schorl series. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack...
Colourless quartz with yellow dolomite and minor pyrite. Specimen measures 28x33x10mm.
Dickite as tiny white tabular crystals on boulangerite and coating fluorite, with tan magnesite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
White dickite (analysed) with tan siderite and colourless quartz. Specimen is 56mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky zoned crystals from the original find of stolzite at Kara. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images.
Red danalite with some crystal faces, frozen in matrix with magnetite and fluorite. Specimen measures 62x46x40mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Although Mount Lyell is a copper mine, cuprite is not that common. This specimen has black slightly rounded crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Single red crystal 27mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White to green fibres in a vein in serpentine. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 29 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A waterworn green chrysoberyl crystal. It is weak red under longwave UV. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brian Smith from the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania, identified the specimens below as belonging to a member of the Helicopsychidae family, a species of caddis fly larvae. Instead of the tube shaped homes that...
Rice grain smithsonite crystal group. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic blue crystals of linarite with pale blue serpierite(?). Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharp prismatic anglesite crystals. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images.
Colourless bladed crystals of anglesite with acicular crystal (also anglesite?). Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 55 images.
Unidentified white hemispheres that have grown in a thin space in slag. They look zoned, with the outermost part having a silky lustre. Note also some complete balls in gas cavity upper left. Width of...
Dark green hexagonal worms of chlorite (chamosite?) with purple axinite-(Fe) and arsenopyrite. Width of view XX. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Vermicular chlorite (probably chamosite) in quartz. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greyish-green chlorargyrite crystals with minor prismatic orange crocoite crystals. Ex Frank Mihajlowits. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A specimen collected by me. I remember seeing the bright green crystals when I broke open the gossan. They darkened rapidly before my eyes! Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the...
Interesting twinned chalcopyrite crystals without matrix. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of iridescent chalcopyrite crystals on ankerite/dolomite with quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hexagonal crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny hexagonal crystals. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Plates of levyne with tiny analcime crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Deep blue curved crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue post-mining efflorescence. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale pink to pale blue crust of chalcoalumite with green brochantite and yellow crusty beaverite-(Cu). Visual ID by Ralph Bottrill in about 2007. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images (first photo – chalcoalumite)...
Goethite coating cerussite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single prisms and knee-shaped twins of grey to pale green cerussite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of yellow-green so-called “chrome” cerussite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A sample of alluvial heavy concentrate in a vial from the Ringarooma River, Derby, containing mostly brown to black cassiterite, with minor orange zircons, and occasional sapphires and black spinel. Width of view 14.25mm. Stack...
Sharp crystals of cassiterite ranging in colour from yellow through grey and brown to black, some zoned, with white topaz (to the right and slightly below the main cassiterite crystal) and green torbernite (not in...
Brown to black euhedral cassiterite crystals with zoned divergent sprays of prismatic crystals in the matrix. Width of view 16mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark brown cassiterite crystals and an iron-stained topaz crystal (centre top) embedded in a corroded greisen matrix. Width of view 9.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Three loose complex crystals without any matrix. Collected underground. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous black cassiterite crystals with chlorite-coated quartz and dark olive-green prismatic actinolite. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 85 images. (Top image). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharp cassiterite crystals on one edge of a specimen containing well-formed arsenopyrite crystals, quartz crystals, and botryoidal orange dolomite. Width of view 14.25, Stack of 80 images (cassiterite photo). Second photo width of view 8mm....
Lustrous dark cassiterite crystals with white quartz crystals, from the edge of a porphyry dyke. Width of view 9.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Aggregate of cassiterite crystals. Width of view 9.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ex Jack Leach Collection. Specimen is 25x18x14mm.
Golden, almost fibrous, calcite on thomsonite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny sharp calcite crystals that look like they may have replaced something else, something vaguely cubic. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pyrite on and in calcite on a bed of stellerite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Normally, the only calcite that you find at this locality is stuff that needs to be removed with acid to expose the crystals of other species. This is the only piece that I collected that...
Collected 5/2005. A single calcite crystal on lustrous siderite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange-red prismatic crocoite crystals on zoned green pyromorphite hexagonal prisms. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Slender white crystal group. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A twinned chabazite crystal about 0.6mm across. Single shot photo through my microscope at 20x magnification and cropped. Testing out this item. A cheap way of getting relatively good photos through a microscope.
Acquired from Mathew Latham. What looks like bismuth crystals bottom left is the imprint of andradite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 18 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Specimen is 24mm wide. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hematite in quartz giving it the lovely red colour. Specimen is 25mm tall.
Thin colourless blades of bavenite with colourless fluorite on ferroan magnesite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 45 images. VHD12. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from John Haupt. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny thin colourless blades of bavenite with colourless fluorite on oxidised Fe bearing magnesite. Width of view 1.75mm, stack of 40 images (first photo) and width of view 3.5mm and stack of 70 images (second...
Bladed balls of thomsonite crystals with natrolite needles sticking out, well-formed phillipsite and phacolitic chabazite (the latter two not in photo). Collected by me. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the...
A single brown-purple axinite crystal on arsenopyrite. The latter is highly reflective and you can see the reflection of the axinite. Ex Mark Hallam. Width of view 3.5. Stack of 60 images. Click on the...
A small terminated colourless aragonite crystal in amongst crystalline pink aragonite (coloured by strontium?). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Flat-lying bladed colourless aragonite crystals on green serpentine with minor dark purple stichtite (not in photo). At one time, these were described as magnesite, but analysis showed them to be aragonite. Ex Jo Price Collection....
Ankerite with colourless prismatic quartz and minor chalcopyrite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky anglesite crystal. Acquired from Richard Wolfe 2/2005. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An interesting specimen with an analcime crystal on blue-grey saponite. The dark areas appear to be whatever material is sitting underneath the saponite. There are two other similar size analcime crystals in this vugh and...
Pale tan ferroan dolomite crystals on dark brown siderite. There is also a tiny pyrite cube visible in the photo, slightly to the right and below centre. The dolomite could grade into ankerite. Width of...
Double-terminated alstonite crystal group on a sulphide matrix (sphalerite, pyrite and galena). Also present but not in photo are twinned harmotome crystals. The sphalerite is providing the orange colour in the alstonite crystals. Width of...
It’s interesting to see a specimen with a paragenesis. In this instance, a double-terminated is surrounded by drill-bit twinned harmotome, but also has a harmotome perched on the alstonite crystal. The alstonite also has a...
Double-terminated alstonite crystal on a tiny bit of sulphide matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Double-terminated alstonite crystal on a tiny bit of sulphide matrix (sphalerite and galena). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
Interesting arsenopyrite with siderite(?) on a quartz matrix. There are also prismatic bavenite crystals amongst the carbonate blades (not evident in photo). Specimen is 38mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
A single red crystal 7mm in the longest direction. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic arsenopyrite crystals, including a trilling (six-rayed star) twin, with tiny spear-shaped acanthite sprays. You can also see some light greenish yellow crystals of a possible beudantite group mineral. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of...
Small yellow barite crystals on matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click Image for High Resolution
Labelled as hinsdalite but likely plumbogummite, and as “Sylvester Mine”. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $4.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond at the 1996 Prahran Show from Martin Rosser for $6.00.
Chlorite “worms” included in colourless datolite crystals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 120 images.
Rings and curved crystals of boulangerite on pink rhodochrosite. Header image width of view is 5mm. Stack of 110 images. Second image is an old one, width of view 2.5mm and stack of 12.
Slightly iron-stained topaz crystals in vugh in a vein. Width 50mm. Closeup photo width of view 5mm. Stack of 60 images.
Collected… Also ended up having minor surgery after this collecting trip. A piece of chisel ended up embedded in my wrist!
Collected underground in 2004. Specimen width 11mm. Stack of 98 images (Helicon Focus).
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.
Stubby orange crystals with unknown powdery yellow material. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 71 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Green pyromorphite crystals with sharp orange-red crocoite crystals. Width 3.25mm, stack of 102 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
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...
Many crystals not terminated. The largest terminated crystal has smaller parallel growth crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
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.
Blebs of purple stichtite enclosing relict chromite in serpentine. One face polished. Type Locality. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Ambros Kissling Collection
