0074 Gold, Fluorite, Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
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0073 Gold, Fluorite, Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
0053 Fluorite, Pyrite, Siderite, Renison Bell Mine, North Dundas, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
ncat EA6 Magnesite, Fluorite, Slaughteryard face, Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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...
ncat EA6 Fluorapatite, Muscovite, Fluorite, Aberfoyle Mine, Rossarden mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania
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...
20120 Gold, Savage River Mines, Corinna-Savage River district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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.
3241 OW206 Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Phillipsite, West Ridgley Quarry, Ridgley, Burnie city, Tasmania
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.
1382 Cassiterite, Luinaite, Quartz, Siderite, Actinolite, Fluorite, Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania
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...
ncat RC Ferroaluminoceladonite, Sellaite, Beryl, Slaughteryard face, Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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.
2457 Ferro-actinolite, Martins Point, Cygnet district, Huon-Channel region, Huon Valley municipality, Tasmania
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.
1735 Eudialyte Group, Sanidine, and Andradite, Syenite Dyke, Langdons point, Cygnet, Huon Valley Municipality, Tasmania
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...
ncat Chalcophanite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
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.
ncat Crocoite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
2022 production. Crystals 22mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat Crocoite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
2022 production. Longest crystal is 30mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2320 Epistilbite, Tabors Road, Margate, Tasmania
Non-descript looking material. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1507 Pyrite, Epidote, Andradite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
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...
7332 JL3714 Dypingite, Zaratite, Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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...
ncat VHD4 Dundasite, Crocoite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
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...
ncat WD216 Dundasite, Crocoite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
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.
4199 Dypingite, Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania
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.
ncat JP456 Dundasite, Crocoite, Kapi Mine, North Dundas, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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...
4002 Ferrimolybdite, Quartz, Dravite, Bischoff Extended (West Bischoff; Wheal Bischoff), Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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...
ncat WD106 Pyrite, Quartz, Dolomite, Mount Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania
Colourless quartz with yellow dolomite and minor pyrite. Specimen measures 28x33x10mm.
ncat RD Boulangerite, Fluorite, Magnesite, Dickite, Slaughteryard Face, Mount Bischoff, Waratah, Tasmania
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...
3016 Dickite, Quartz, Siderite, Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania
White dickite (analysed) with tan siderite and colourless quartz. Specimen is 56mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2822 Stolzite, Epidote, Andradite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
Blocky zoned crystals from the original find of stolzite at Kara. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images.
ncat TC Danalite, Magnetite, Fluorite, Kara Mines, Hampshire district, Burnie City, Tasmania
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.
2452 Cuprite, Mt Lyell Mine, Queenstown, Tasmania
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...
0006 Crocoite, Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
Single red crystal 27mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD3 Chrysotile, Tunnel Hill Quarry, Serpentine Hill, Tasmania
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.
ncat SM Chrysoberyl, Weld River, Tasmania
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.
ncat MMM Chromite, Roaring Mag Creek, Heazlewood, Tasmania
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...
5764 Smithsonite, Slag dumps, Tasmanian Smelting Company site, Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Rice grain smithsonite crystal group. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5757 Linarite, Serpierite, Slag dumps, Tasmanian Smelting Company site, Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
5774 Anglesite, Slag dumps, Tasmanian Smelting Company site, Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Sharp prismatic anglesite crystals. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images.
5775 Anglesite, Slag dumps, Tasmanian Smelting Company site, Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Colourless bladed crystals of anglesite with acicular crystal (also anglesite?). Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 55 images.
5777 Unknown White, Slag dumps, Tasmanian Smelting Company site, Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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...
2447 Chlorite Group, Axinite-(Fe), Arsenopyrite, Colebrook Hill Mine, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
1578 Chlorite in Quartz, Philosopher’s Ridge, Gormanston, Tasmania
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.
2362 Chlorargyrite, Crocoite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
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.
1508 Chlorargyrite, Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania
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...
2266 Chalcopyrite, Hellyer Mine, Tasmania
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.
1855 Chalcopyrite, Quartz, Ankerite, Henty Gold Mine, Queenstown, Tasmania
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.
9136 JP2680 Chalcophanite, Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Hexagonal crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2145 Chalcophanite, 4 Level Open Cut, Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Tasmania
Tiny hexagonal crystals. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
10087 Levyne, Analcime, Mt Stormont, Moina – Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania
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.
2525 Chalcanthite, Central Balfour Mine, Balfour, Tasmania
Deep blue curved crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1736 Chalcanthite, Argent Flats, Zeehan, Tasmania
Pale blue post-mining efflorescence. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2464 Chalcoalumite, Beaverite-(Cu), Brochantite, Cuprite, Orieco Mine, Scamander, Tasmania
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)...
0966 Cerussite, Goethite, Anglesite, Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania
Goethite coating cerussite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0453 Cerussite Twin, Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania
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.
0427 Cerussite, Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania
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.
2730 Cassiterite, Zircon, Spinel, Sapphire (Alluvial), Derby, Tasmania
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...
1937 Cassiterite, Topaz, Torbernite, Royal George Mine, Avoca-Royal George mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania
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...
1807 Cassiterite, Rex Hill Mine, Rossarden mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania
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.
1732 Cassiterite, Topaz, Royal George Mine, Avoca-Royal George mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania
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.
1911 Cassiterite, Anchor Mine, Lottah, Blue Tier district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania
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.
1354 Cassiterite, Quartz, Chlorite, Actinolite, Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania
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.
1256 Cassiterite, Quartz, Arsenopyrite, Actinolite, Dolomite, Actinolite, Renison Bell Mine, North Dundas, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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....
1157 Cassiterite, Mount Bischoff mine, Waratah, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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.
0109 Cassiterite, Mt Lindsay mine (Parsons Hood), Mt Lindsay mineral field, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Aggregate of cassiterite crystals. Width of view 9.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4193 VHD5 Cerussite, Massicot, Dundas, Tasmania
ex Jack Leach Collection. Specimen is 25x18x14mm.
2333 Calcite, Thomsonite-Ca, Addisons Creek, Gads Hill, Upper Mersey Valley, Meander Valley municipality, Tasmania
Golden, almost fibrous, calcite on thomsonite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1816 Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Henty Gold Mine, Queenstown, Tasmania
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.
1882 Calcite, Stellerite, Pyrite, Longley Quarry, Longley, Tasmania
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.
1846 Calcite, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery, Tasmania
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...
4025 Siderite, Calcite, Hematite, South Pit, Savage River Mine, Tasmania
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.
0002 Crocoite, Pyromorphite, Platt Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
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.
ncat RW177 Calcite, Liawenee Canal, Liawenee, Central Highlands, Tasmania
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.
1844 Chabazite, Hellyer River, Tasmania
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.
4026 Bismuth, Andradite, Actinolite, Stormont Mine, Moina, Tasmania
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.
1783 Bornite, Betekhtinite, Mawsonite, Mt Lyell Mine, Queenstown, Tasmania
Specimen is 24mm wide. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3958 Hematite in Quartz, Mt Read, Tasmania
Hematite in quartz giving it the lovely red colour. Specimen is 25mm tall.
2834 Bavenite, Fluorite, Magnesite, Slaughteryard Face, Mount Bischoff, Waratah, Tasmania
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.
ncat JL3631 Bavenite, Slaughteryard Face, Mount Bischoff, Waratah, Tasmania
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.
2578 Fluorite, Bavenite, Ferroan Magnesite, Slaughteryard Face, Mount Bischoff, Waratah, Tasmania
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...
5122 Hetaerolite, Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania
Lustrous black crystals. Analysed by Peter Elliott. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
0706 Thomsonite-Ca, Chabazite-Ca, Phillipsite, Natrolite, Cradle Mountain Link Road, Middlesex Plains, Tasmania
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...
1263 Axinite-(Fe), Arsenopyrite, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery, Tasmania
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...
2211 Aragonite, Bridgewater Quarry, Bridgewater, Tasmania
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.
ncat JP0763 Aragonite, Nevada Creek, North Dundas, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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....
1791 Chalcopyrite, Quartz, Ankerite, Henty Gold Mine, Queenstown, Tasmania
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.
3975 Anglesite, Zeehan Queen Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania
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.
4300 Analcime, Fieldwicks Quarry, Lottah Road, Weldborough Pass, Tasmania
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...
3877 Siderite, Dolomite, Pyrite, Great South Comet Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
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...
5736 Alstonite, Harmotome, Rosebery Mine (EZ Mine), Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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...
5735 Alstonite, Harmotome, Rosebery Mine (EZ Mine), Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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...
5734 Alstonite, Rosebery Mine (EZ Mine), Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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…
5733 Alstonite, Rosebery Mine (EZ Mine), Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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…
20072 Arsenopyrite, Bavenite, Siderite, Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
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...
2743 Almandine, Mt Heemskirk, Tasmania
A single red crystal 7mm in the longest direction. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1428 Arsenopyrite Trilling, Acanthite, Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania
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...
ncat OW102 Barite,Rosebery Mine (EZ Mine), Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Small yellow barite crystals on matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click Image for High Resolution
7410 JL1834 Hinsdalite, Pyromorphite, Pyromorphite lode, Zeehan Queen mine (“Sylvester-Queen”), Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
7377 JL1875 Cerussite, Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Acquired by Joan Lamond at the 1996 Prahran Show from Martin Rosser for $6.00.
0589 Datolite, Chlorite, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery, Tasmania
Chlorite “worms” included in colourless datolite crystals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 120 images.
0174 Boulangerite, Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Chlorite, Rosebery Mine, Tasmania
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.
30108 Topaz, Bischoff Extended (West Bischoff; Wheal Bischoff), Waratah, Waratah-Wynyard Municipality, Tasmania
Slightly iron-stained topaz crystals in vugh in a vein. Width 50mm. Closeup photo width of view 5mm. Stack of 60 images.
3966 Quartz, Hematite, Iron Blow, Gormanston, Tasmania
Collected… Also ended up having minor surgery after this collecting trip. A piece of chisel ended up embedded in my wrist!
5678 Crocoite, Pyromorphite, Platt Prospect, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Collected underground in 2004. Specimen width 11mm. Stack of 98 images (Helicon Focus).
9020 JP2381 Arsenopyrite, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
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.
9132 JP2682 Crocoite, Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Stubby orange crystals with unknown powdery yellow material. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 71 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9072 JP2642 Crocoite, Pyromorphite, Platt Prospect, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Green pyromorphite crystals with sharp orange-red crocoite crystals. Width 3.25mm, stack of 102 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
2191 Beryl, Sellaite, Quartz, Fluorite, Mt Bischoff, Waratah, Tasmania
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...
30094 Crocoite, Gibbsite, 2010 Pocket, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Many crystals not terminated. The largest terminated crystal has smaller parallel growth crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
30079 Gmelinite, Calcite, Analcime, Hematite, Little Plains Quarry (Fieldwicks Quarry), Blue Tier district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania
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.
30074 Stichtite, Chromite, Stichtite Hill, Dundas, Tasmania
Blebs of purple stichtite enclosing relict chromite in serpentine. One face polished. Type Locality. Video best viewed full screen.
ncat VHD15, Galena, Siderite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
Ex Ambros Kissling Collection
20035 Stilbite, Bitumen, Apophyllite, Laumontite, Calcite, Unknown, Russell Hard Quarry (8646), Russell River, Lonnavale, Tasmania
Colourless stilbite crystals on black bitumen. Laumontite intermingled with bitumen. Apophyllite (in second photo) and unknown hexagonal or pseudohexagonal (in main photo) crystals in another cavity. Maybe just apophyllite? Photo width 3.25mm. The calcite is...
20027 Quartz, Mt Read, Williamsford, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Cluster of colourless quartz crystals.
20026 Gold Mathinna district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania
Small amount of gold in quartz. See arrow.
20023 Plumbogummite after Pyromorphite, Pyromorphite lode, Zeehan Queen mine (“Sylvester-Queen”), Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection #1219, labelled as Sylvester Mine. As per Mindat, relabelled from hinsdalite to plumbogummite.
3313 Anatase, Philosophers Ridge, Mt Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania
Tiny anatase crystals (arrowed) on quartz with hematite inclusions.
ncat M3850 Cassiterite, Summit Face, Mt Bischoff, Waratah, Tasmania
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
ncat M2802 Dundasite, Cerussite, Crocoite, Kapi Mine, North Dundas, Tasmania
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
30047 Pyrrhotite, Andradite-Uvarovite, Calcite, Diopside, Avebury Nickel Deposit (Avebury mine), Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Brassy crystal of pyrrhotite, with tiny bright green andradite-uvarovite series garnet crystals, pale diopside, and flattened calcite.
5558 Calcite, Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Kara Mine, Hampshire district, Burnie City, Tasmania
Mn-calcite/Ca-rhodochrosite pseudomorphing kutnohorite, Self-collected
5559 Calcite, Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Andradite, Kara Mine, Hampshire district, Burnie City, Tasmania
Mn-calcite/Ca-rhodochrosite pseudomorphing kutnohorite, Self-collected
4882 Topaz, Frome River, Moorina, Blue Tier district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection, Peter Beckwith, Crystal Habit
10067 Fluorapophyllite-(K), Hedenbergite, Avebury Nickel Deposits, Zeehan district, Tasmania
Blocky transparent apophyllite crystals with pale green hedenbergite.
4582 Hematite, Laumontite, HBMI Quarry, Leslie Vale, Tasmania
Found in driveway gravel
4341 Hemimorphite, Quartz, Calcite Quarry, near Beaconsfield, Tasmania
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
4317 Quartz after Fluorite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
Collected by Andrew Tuma 2006
4318 Calcite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
Collected by Andrew Tuma 2006
4319 Calcite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
Collected by Andrew Tuma 2006
4316 Fluorite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
Collected by Andrew Tuma 2006
4256 Vivianite, Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania
ex Jack Leach Collection
4197 Calcite, Chabazite, Fluorapophyllite, Liawenee Canal, Liawenee, Tasmania
ex Jack Leach Collection
4192 Fluorite, Bavenite(?), Siderite(?), Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania
ex Jack Leach Collection