1014 Löllingite, Dry Creek, Eldorado, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria
Patches of Löllingite in granite. Ex Don Billinghurst Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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7456 JL0793 Lithiophorite, Warburton, Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria
Black botryoidal lithiophorite in sandstone. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1989. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat BDMAR01 M3786 Turquoise, Fluorapatite, Libethenite, Albite, Orthoclase, Smoky Quartz, Muscovite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
A green spray of libethenite crystals with pale blue turquoise on albite, orthoclase and smoky quartz, with very pale pink fluorapatite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 150 images. Click on...
0251 Libethenite, Lake Boga, Victoria0251 Libethenite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria0251 Libethenite, Lake Boga, Victoria
Two genereations of spiky balls of green libethenite in a quartz cavity. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR12 Levyne-Ca, Erionite, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
Thin plates of levyne with silky overgrowth of erionite. Ex Judy Rowe. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0617 Chabazite, Levyne-Na, ‘Pyrolusite’, Erionite, Sunderland Bluff, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Orange rhombohedral chabazite on hexagonal crystals of levyne. Black “pyrolusite” balls are sprinkled around. Erionite is evident as a very thin coating of levyne, obvious when you look at the broken crystals. Width of view...
ncat JP892 Levyne, Erionite-Na, Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Silky fibrous erionite growing epitaxially on thin levyne crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR12 Levyne, Chabazite, Road metal quarry, Howitt Plains, Wellington Shire, Victoria
Unusually blocky levyne crystals with lustrous chabazite perched on them. Ex Roger Colling. Ex Judy Rowe. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0697 Levyne-Ca, Thomsonite-Ca, Erionite, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
Thin blades of levyne with a silky overgrowth of erionite. Thomsonite in nearby cavity. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RD Diopside, Fluorapatite, Nepheline, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Leucite, Sanidine, Biotite, Clinopyroxene, Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
(Photo) Leucite as grey-white material in groundmass (“leucitite”). Elsewhere on specimen: Green prismatic diopside. Brown-black prismatic clinopyroxene. Nepheline as hexagonal prisms. Nepheline with hollow cores have been altered to analcime. Colourless needles of fluorapatite. Grey...
9075 JP2812 Lepidocrocite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Bladed crystals with a reddish tinge. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD4, Calcite, Stilbite, Laumontite, Pyrite, Graham Quarry, Kellow Road, Cosgrove, Victoria
Photo shows a white crystal of laumontite on calcite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW102 Gmelinite-Na, Analcime, Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Closeup photo of a relatively thin platy etched/resorbed gmelinite crystals coloured red by iron oxides or hydroxides, with sharp crystals of analcime. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below...
ncat JR1 Kyanite, Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
Single crystal sorted by Judy Rowe from heavy mineral concentrates. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0835 Kunatite, Turquoise/Chalcosiderite, Torbernite, Albite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Greenish-yellow balls of kunatite (previously Unknown Cu Fe Phosphate), with blue-green balls of turquoise/chalcosiderite, a square-shaped torbernite crystal, and some unidentified darker green balls (pseudomalachite?), all on albite, orthoclase and smoky quartz. Collected by John...
9082 JP2789 Koechlinite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Very pale platy to fibrous crystals on gossan. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
9051 JP2199 Koechlinite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Pale yellow plates of koechlinite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD15 Gold, Galena, Wattle Gully Gold Mine, Chewton, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria
Crystalline gold with galena and possibly other sulphides on quartz. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW102 Analcime, Wattle Gully Gold Mine, Chewton, Victoria
Monchiquite – a rare basic rock that has analcime instead of feldspar. From No. 12 Level (1086 feet).
ncat OW203 Kaolinite, Imerys Australian Kaolin Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Cream to white kaolinite cementing broken quartz pieces and pearly mica flakes. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR2 Kaersutite, West Head, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Lustrous black kaersutite in a basaltic matrix. Ex Ruth Coulsell. Specimen measures 33mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR1 Kaersutite, Lake Bullen Merri (Bullenmerri), Camperdown, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
Many loose crystals and fragments. In photo largest is 18mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5143 Kaersutite, Lake Bullen Merri (Bullenmerri), Camperdown, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
A single loose crystal. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5084 Kaersutite, Brownes Road, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
A single crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5832 Gold, Sebastopol, City of Ballarat, Victoria
A hackly piece of gold in quartz. From the Yarrowee River. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW109 Chabazite-Na, Thomsonite-Ca, Phillipsite-Na, Ilmenite, Bundoora, Victoria
A lot going on with this specimen. Silver thin ilmenite plates formed first and were then coated with phillipsite-Na and chabazite-Na crystals. You can see the ilmenite where there are broken areas. Then later, a...
2777 Ilmenite, Lake Bullen Merri (Bullenmerri), Camperdown, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
Glossy black pieces of ilmenite collected by Judy Rowe from beach sands on the shore of Lake Bullenmerri. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat NOVM Calcite, Augite, Ilmenite, Apatite, Portland Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Sir William Grant, Portland, Glenelg Shire, Victoria
Partially clay encrusted ilmenite with augite and fluorescent calcite. There is a bunch of apatite needles on the top right corner of the ilmenite. Ex Margaret Brown. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images....
ncat AU001 Hyalite Opal, Ilmenite, Augite, Hedenbergite, Andesine, Alfredton, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Four pieces. Photo shows ilmenite on augite. Also present andesine and hedenbergite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images.
0131 Ilmenite, Sanidine, Spring Hill, Macedon Ranges, Victoria
A sharp ilmenite crystal in a cavity lined with sanidine crystals. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 14 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3098 Hydrokenoelsmoreite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Yellow crystals in a vugh in ferberite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2814 Calcite, Barite, Heulandite, Red Bluff, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Red-fluorescing calcite crystals with minor heulandite (pictured) and barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
nct JR4 Micrometeorites, Zircon, Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
A selection of some of a lot of 29 micrometeorites hand sorted by the late Judy Rowe from alluvial concentrates. Judy hand sorted anatase, zircon, maghemite, and other minerals. One of the micrometeorites (just above...
ncat JR2 Anatase, Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
A selection of dull greyish-blue anatase crystals from Carapooee, showing the common dipyramidal forms. There is some abrasion and iron-staining. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a...
ncat JP3178 Thomsonite-Ca, Natrolite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Natrolite prisms growing from the base of bladed thomsonite. At first, I thought that the natrolite terminations were coated in hyalite opal, with that typical blobby look. But when you look down on the terminations,...
1493 Hannayite, Skipton Caves, Mt. Widderin, Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
Tiny tan crystals from the Type Locality. Width of view 7.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3160 Halite, Eastern Beach, Lorne, Surf Coast Shire, Victoria
Colourless hoppered halite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU003 Halite, Pink Lake, Dimboola, Hindmarsh Shire, Victoria
White (was very pale pink) partially dissolved halite, highly fluorescent white. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
30019 WD215 Albite, Orthoclase, Smoky Quartz, Muscovite, Glenrowan, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria
White albite growing epitaxially on orange orthoclase with smoky quartz. Width of view 6mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1531 Grossular, Grahams Quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Olive-green crystal of grossular garnet. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7267 JL1445 Grossular, Chrysocolla, Wombat Hole prospect (Wombat Hole mine), Morass Creek gorge, Dartmouth, Towong Shire, Victoria
Brown grossular garnet with blue chrysocolla. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat MBBD Libethenite, Ulrichite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
A single sharp green libethenite crystal with a spray of lighter green ulrichite, on a bed of green chalcosiderite crystals. Height of view 2.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a...
ncat MBBD Variscite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Tiny colourless crystalline balls of variscite. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat MBBD Torbernite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Platy green crystals on smoky quartz. Most are much thinner than the one in the photo. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat BDAU M2253-1 Natrolite, Analcime, Gmelinite, Hematite, Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Natrolite perched on other natrolite crystals, on analcime. Red gmelinite coloured by hematite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
40030 DH2285 Pseudobrookite, Enstatite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
Lustrous red pseudobrookite crystals with yellow transparent enstatite crystals. The lustre is so good you can clearly see the reflections of other crystals. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 40 images....
40029 DH2285 Pseudobrookite, Enstatite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
Lustrous dark brown pseudobrookite crystals with yellow transparent enstatite crystals. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 6.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
40028 DH2285 Pseudobrookite, Enstatite, Fluorapatite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
Lustrous brown pseudobrookite crystals with yellow transparent enstatite crystals. One very thin apatite needle is also present. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for...
40027 DH2285 Pseudobrookite, Enstatite, Hematite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
Lustrous brown pseudobrookite crystals with tiny yellow transparent enstatite crystals. The larger pseudobrookite crystal has a slight “bend” in it. Hematite is out of view of this photo. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view...
7245 JL3033 Pyrite, Mount Tarrengower, Maldon, Victoria
A radial cluster of pyrite crystals that have grown in a tight area. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 8mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7262 JL3035 Siderite, Heulandite, Mount Tarrengower, Maldon, Victoria
Spherical brown siderite on heulandite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP838 Heulandite, Gypsum, Mt Tarrengower goldfield, Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria
Colourless to white tabular heulandite crystals with colourless sprays of gypsum. The heulandite crystals have dark blue cores giving the crystals a bluish hue. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the...
0089 Gold, Andersons Creek, Warrandyte, City of Manningham, Victoria
My first ever mineral specimen. I found this panning Anderson’s Creek in 1980 and it is still in my collection. Although the ‘nugget’ is only 2.5mm on its longest dimension, it is cute and reminds...
ncat OW101 Cassiterite, Mount Alwa Tin Mine, Walwa, Towong Shire, Victoria
Cassiterite in greisen. Collected in 1971. Specimen measures 80x55x35mm.
5175 JL0416 Gold, Tarnagulla, Loddon Shire, Victoria
A small gold nugget. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan from Peter Cole for $6 in 1987. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat AU003 Gold, Black Horse Gully area, Whipstick Forest, Bendigo, Victoria
Two small rounded nuggets. Width of view 18mm. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat NOVM M3323 Gold, Bismuth, Namibite-Beyerite, Bismuthinite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Tiny grains of gold in quartz, associated with native bismuth, bismuthinite and greenish namibite-beyerite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 41 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat JLMAR02 JL616 Gold, Galena, Rotten Gully, Nerrina, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Small bits of gold on galena and quartz. It is possible that other sulphides/sulphosalts such as boulangerite(?) are also present. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 49 images....
ncat JLMAR02 JL2049 Gold, Maude and Yellow Girl Mine, Glen Wills goldfield, Mt Wills mining district, Omeo, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Tiny hackly gold. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Jo Price. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 37 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
30046 Gold, Glenluce, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria, Australia
Coarsely crystalline gold in white quartz. Chris Ah Yee. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0136 Goethite, Quartz, Mooralla, Victoria
Brown globular goethite completely covering quartz crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0644 Gmelinite, Analcime, Natrolite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Red gmelinite coloured by hematite, with colourless analcime and prismatic natrolite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0645 Gmelinite, Natrolite, Analcime, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Red gmelinite coloured by hematite, with colourless analcime and prismatic natrolite. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7060 JL2941 Foshagite, Vesuvianite, Chesney Vale, Rural City of Benalla, Victoria
White foshagite with yellow-green vesuvianite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Specimen measures 12x8x5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VH647 Fluorite, Womobi Mine, Thologolong, Towong Shire, Victoria
A vein of purple fluorite in matrix. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. Specimen measures 28x22x25mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7053 JL2618 Fluorite, Rockbridgeite, Gravel Hill quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Tiny purple crystals of fluorite embedded in matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1997. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat EA Goethite, Rochester Shire Quarry, Rochester, Campaspe Shire, Victoria
Iridescent botryoidal goethite on on face of the specimen. Specimen dimensions are 35x24x22mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU007 Fluorapatite, Saleeite, Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria
Tiny pale baby blue crystals of fluorapatite. Yellow plates of saleeite also present on the specimen. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP299 Axinite-(Fe), Ferro-actinolite, Ferro-tschermakite, Tremolite, Andradite, Dookie Mineralogical Reserve quarry, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Purple axinite crystals with green ferro-actinolite or actinolite(?), felted brown ferro-tschermakite, and pale tremolite(?). Also present, lemon-green andradite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat BE23 Ferrosilite, Ilmenite, Andesine, Fluorapatite, Rollinsons quarry, Malmsbury, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
Brown prismatic ferrosilite crystals with tan andesine, platy ilmenite, and acicular fluorapatite needles. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1436 Ferrimolybdite, Jarosite, Quartz, Mount Moliagul, Moliagul, Central Goldfields Shire, Victoria
Yellow-green ferrimolybdite with probable orange jarosite on quartz. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3529 Felsőbányaite, Coimadai Antimony Mine, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria
White crystalline groups on slate. Collected by me in 2003. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat EA2 Felsőbányaite, Coimadai Antimony Mine, Pyrites Creek, Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool Shire, Victoria
Globular creamy-white coating on slate. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AA O13 Erionite, Levyne-Ca, Thomsonite-Ca, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
Silky overgrowths of erionite (labelled as offretite) on levyne crystals. Ex Lesley and Doug Ball Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0920 Levyne-Na, Calcite, Erionite, Thomsonite-Ca, Chabazite, Sunderland Bluff, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Silky erionite overgrowths clearly showing on broken levyne crystal with grey calcite crystal (the calcite is 6mm tall). Adjacent vugh is lined with thomsonite and has tiny chabazite crystals sprinkled over it. Stack of 80...
ncat ANK T8 Topaz, Wombat Creek, Strathbogie Ranges, Strathbogie Shire, Victoria
Single pale blue crystal 9mm tall. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon #T8. Acquired by them from “Glad” (Rangott?, Jackson?). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7320 JL3151 Epidote, Stockdale Quarry, Maffra, Wellington Shire, Victoria
Labelled as Briagolong. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Doug Gaw at the 1999 Waverley Show. Width of View 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0761 Eosphorite, Meurigite, Cyrilovite, Wycheproof Quarry, Wycheproof, Victoria
Dark brown prismatic crystals with pale yellow fibrous meurigite-K, and tiny bright yellow cyrilovite. Width of view 2.88mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5370 JL1172 Eosphorite, Wycheproof Quarry, Wycheproof, Victoria
Brown prismatic crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection #1172. Ex Museum Victoria. Specimen is 10mm wide. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3418 Pseudobrookite, Enstatite, Middle Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
Transparent thin bladed tan crystals of enstatite with pseudobrookite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 220 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3371 Enstatite, Hematite, Pseudobrookite, Middle Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
Brown crystals of enstatite with minor pseudobrookite and hematite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat TF Eosphorite, Saléeite, Dufrénite, Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria
Bluish-green dufrénite with brown eosphorite and highly fluorescent saléeite. Ex Pat Sutton. Dufrénite not listed in Mindat, but I assume Pat analysed. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 76 images. Click on the image below...
8080 Dravite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
Brown prismatic crystals. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat XA Dravite, Henry’s Hill Wolfram Mine, near Percydale, Victoria
Prismatic translucent brown tourmaline crystal (dravite?) showing termination (right hand side), embedded in massive vein quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3546 Dolomite, Pseudobrookite, Mount Shadwell, Mortlake, Moyne Shire, Victoria
A tiny dolomite crystal perched on the end of a pseudobrookite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3002 “Selwynite”, Chromian Muscovite, Diaspore, Coppermine Lane, Heathcote, Victoria
Green “Selwynite”, a rock. Chromian muscovite (fuchsite) mixed with diaspore with muscovite veins. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7056 JL2616 Clinozoisite, Danburite, Fluorite, Gravel Hill quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Colourless radiating prismatic crystals of danburite with green clinozoisite. Minor purple fluorite visible too. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1997. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image...
ncat JP3367 Vesuvianite, Danburite, Actinolite, Gravel Hill quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Opaque white radiating crystals with dark green prismatic actinolite and light green vesuvianite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2040 Danburite, Gravel Hill quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Tiny prismatic grey crystals (arrowed) in a small vugh. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP287 Cowlesite, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
Lustrous white crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 88 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0722 Cowlesite, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 94 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3390 Cristobalite, Pseudobrookite, Phlogopite, Middle Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
Tiny white crystals with pseudobrookite and phlogopite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
8063 Covellite, Dravite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
A tiny ball of dark blue covellite crystals, probably covering a chalcopyrite crystal, with prismatic brown dravite, and a vein of pyrite and chalcopyrite in quartz. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view...
ncat WD112 Copper, Wilsons Reef Mine, Saint Arnaud, Victoria
Native copper from a rare locality. Measures 25x22mm. Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Ex Brian Shelton Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4611 Chlorite Group, Smoky Quartz, Albite, Orthoclase, Glenrowan, Victoria
Black chlorite (chamosite?) with small smoky quartz crystals, colourless albite and white orthoclase. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
8204 M1183 Chlorargyrite, Lake Boga, Victoria
A single green crystal of chlorargyrite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW110 Gold, Costerfield, Victoria
Bright gold richly embedded throughout matrix. Ex Margaret Brown. Ex Castlemaine School of Mines. Ex CLC Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0615 Chabazite, Sunderland Bluff, Victoria
Pseudocubic orange chabazite crystals sprinkled with goethite. Top photo: Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0609 Chabazite-Na, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Pseudohexagonal chabazite-Na. Width of view 7.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3065 Chabazite, Natrolite, Thomsonite-Ca, Dolomite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Tiny pseudocubic chabazite impaled on natrolite with bladed thomsonite-Ca and a ball of white dolomite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3972 Chabazite-Na, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Pseudohexagonal phacolite chabazite. Width of view 5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5359 Siderite, Chabazite-Na, Pioneer Quarry, Narre Warren, Victoria
Basket Weave siderite with pseudocubic chabazite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1982. Width of view 10.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VH3590 Cervantite, Stibnite, Steels Creek, Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria
Yellow cervantite in fractures and on surfaces of massive stibnite. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. Acquired by Val from Ruth in 1993. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on...
Topaz, Quartz Creek, Gentle Annie, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
A waterworn blue topaz, 43x25x23mm. Ex Peter Mostert. Click on the link below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP321 Barite, Phillipsite, Goethite, West Head, Flinders, Victoria
Off-white barite aggregates on iron-stained phillipsite with tiny black goethite balls. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP304 Dolomite, Analcime, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Globular dolomite on analcime crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VH99 Calcite, Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Grant, Portland, Victoria
A scalenohedral crystal group without matrix. Bluish-white fluorescence under longwave UV. Specimen is 20mm high. Ex Val Hannah Collection.
ncat VH108 Calcite Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Grant, Portland, Victoria
Colourless scalenohedral crystals, some with a white coating. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3876 Hematite, Siderite, Lake Cooper Quarry, Corop, Victoria
Unusual rhombohedral hematite showing some rainbow colouration, with orange-brown siderite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat NOVM JL3513 Strengite, Cacoxenite, Wavellite, Lavers Hill, Fish Creek, Hoddle Range, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Cacoxenite as yellow-orange to brown hemispheres of radiating crystals, some as bow-ties. Very pale purple strengite. Colourless prisms of wavellite. Obtained by Joan in 1999 from Robyn Sharp. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 56...
4268 Cacoxenite, Gravel Hill Quarry, Dookie, Victoria
Translucent-looking orange-brown hemispheres isolated from the more common yellow-orange acicular to fibrous ones. Acquired from John Haupt 4/06. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat JP1391 Cacoxenite, Gravel Hill quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Orange hemispheres on an iridescent goethite background. They are zoned with a darker core. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images.
5746 Heulandite, Pyramid Rock, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Ex John Lewis collection.
ncat WD109 Stibnite, Berthierite, United Brothers Mine, Mount Wills, Victoria
Silver crystals in cavities in quartz. Ex Jack and Dawn Leach Collection. Ex Gordon Jackson Collection. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7473 JL1517 Gonnardite-Natrolite, Calcite, Old Melbourne Quarries, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991 from Melbourne Museum.
7472 JL0546 Gold, Heathcote, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1988 from Tony Fraser at the Canberra Gemboree for $1.
7469 JL0066 Zircon, Trentham Falls, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
A single orange zircon crystal mounted on a bristle(?). Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1983 from Hamish Pearson.
30129 Calcite, Stilbite, Giblin Street Quarry, Lenah Valley, Hobart City, Tasmania
Pale orange calcite crystals partially coated by tiny colourless stilbite crystals. Specimen size 85x75x40mm. White fluorescence under longwave UV (Convoy) with a green afterglow. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Ex Roseann Scotti Collection. Click on the...
7468 JL1151 Anglesite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992 at the Horsham Gemkhana from Barry Porter for $4.
7465 JL1479 Calcite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
The “Lighthouse”, sceptered calcite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
7462 JL1651 Pucherite, Morass Creek, Benambra, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
7461 JL1200 Vashegyite, Mount Avis, Edi-Cheshunt, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993. Ex Museum Victoria.
7459 JL1159 Zircon, Aragonite, Daylesford, Victoria
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1991 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip.
7455 JL0075 Chabazite, Calcite, Portland Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Sir William Grant, Portland, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1982 from Frank Robinson.
7453 JL0920 Dolomite, Flinders, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991 from Frank Robinson.
7450 JL1107 Zircon, Lake Bullenmerri, Victoria
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1982 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip.
7448 JL3945 Vivianite, Demon’s Bluff, Anglesea, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Dick Haslam.
7445 JL0846 Chabazite, Gonnardite-Natrolite, Boral Quarry, Bundoora, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
7442 JL1746 Tridymite, Spring Hill, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Judy Rowe.
4535 Axinite-(Fe), Lake Cooper Quarry, Corop, Victoria
Pale pink axinite-(Fe). Width of view 9mm. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7014 JL2046 Schorl, Axinite-(Fe), Danburite, Vesuvianite, Gravel Hill quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Collected by Bill Birch and Dermot Henry in 1996. Pictured is purple axinite and colourless danburite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image...
0760 Eosphorite, Autunite, Wycheproof Quarry, Wycheproof, Victoria
Thin greenish-yellow plates of highly fluorescence autunite with orange-yellow rounded eosphorite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. UV photo: Width of view...
ncat VH93 Augite, Ilmenite, Portland Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Sir William Grant, Portland, Victoria
Black prismatic augite crystals with brown coated ilmenite. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0878 Gold, Stibnite, Heathcote, Victoria
Spongy reddish gold that results possibly from the breakdown of aurostibite(?) with small areas of more yellow native gold, and silver stibnite. Collected by me in the early 1990s. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of...
0550 Fluorapophyllite-(K), Calcite, Natrolite, Phillipsite, Pioneer Quarry, Harkaway, Victoria
White blocky crystals of fluorapophyllite-(K), some corroded, on a bed of phillipsite, with natrolite and calcite, some of which are perched on natrolite needles. Main image width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click...
ncat JP1240 Aragonite, Trentham Falls, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
A spray of aragonite bladed crystals with unusual zig-zag markings on the faces. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3684 Aragonite, Nichterlein’s quarry, Lower Paper Mills Road, Fyansford, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
Ugly looking aragonite crystals that appear to have been partially etched giving them a greyish appearance, and then clear colourless tips have been added to the terminations. From an old locality. Ex Jo Price Collection....
ncat JP3664 Aragonite, Jackson’s Creek, Panorama Drive, Gisborne, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
A radiating spray of aragonite needles. Many of these sprays have seeded on an earlier larger aragonite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below...
ncat JP485 Aragonite, Tylden quarry, Tylden, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
A spray of tapered aragonite crystals, with this image showing some of the typical terminations (and a broken crystal – third from the left, demonstrating the fragile nature of such specimens). Ex Jo Price Collection....
ncat JP1429 Aragonite, Rosslynne Reservoir, Gisborne, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
A neat spray of bladed aragonite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3618 Fluorapatite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
A brown partially melted hexagonal apatite crystal with a hollow centre. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2434 Fluorapatite, Albite, Pyramid Hill granite quarry (Mawson’s Quarry), Pyramid Hill, Loddon Shire, Victoria
A single hexagonal yellowish apatite crystal perched on albite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat BDMAR01 M1007 Fluorapatite, Lake Boga, Victoria
A nice cluster of zoned tabular hexagonal fluorapatite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 22mm. Stack of 17 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD4, Tourmaline, Pyrite, Quartz, Fluorapatite, Pyramid Hill, Victoria
A coated hexagonal prism of fluorapatite from the Pyramid Hill granite Quarry, Victoria. Not as pretty as the Lake Boga ones. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 10 images. Click on the image below for...
0826 Andradite, Clinozoisite, Actinolite, Ferro-axinite, Dookie Mineral Reserve, Dookie, Victoria
An orange andradite caterpillar. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 20 images. Clinozoisite photo width 11.5mm. Stack of 34 items. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version…
4366 JL3712 Antimony, Queen’s Birthday Mine, Goldsborough, near Dunolly, Victoria
Tin-white crystal aggregates of native antimony in a thin vein. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Roger Colling Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
5738 Stibnite, Costerfield, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Interesting bent crystal. Found on the mullock heap area near the main shaft of the Costerfield mine. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
5737 Sulphur, Costerfield, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Lustrous pale yellow crystal of sulphur in slag from the mullock heap area near the main shaft of the Costerfield mine. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for...
ncat 442 VHD11, Analcime, Gmelinite-Na, Simmons Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Red gmelinite with colourless analcime crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
9141 JP2798 Almandine, Gentle Annie mine, Sunnyside, Mt Wills mining district, Omeo, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Pink almandine garnets in matrix. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on image below for a better resolution version.
40026 RH1023 Phillipsite, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
Lustrous twinned phillipsite (Stemple twin?). The smaller crystals in the image looked like possible pseudohexagonal chabazite under the microscope, but in the photo, it is clear that they too, are phillipsites. Ex Dick Haslam Collection....
40025 RH1357 Vivianite, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
Blue to black spray of vivianite crystals in a vugh in basalt. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version…
40024 RH2302 Pseudobrookite, Magnetite, Enstatite, Eastern Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
Brown pseudobrookite crystals with tiny yellow transparent enstatite crystals. The larger pseudobrookite crystal has a “bend” in it, clearly an abrupt change of growth direction, not rare but also not common at this locality. The...
5732 Calcite, Maude, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
White hemispherical calcite that shows banding on broken surfaces. Collected at Bunjil’s Lookout, Maude, and most likely comes from the nearby Mountain View quarry. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the...
40023 RH Ilmenite, Lethbridge quarry, Lethbridge, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Iridescent ilmenite crystal with an interesting growth. The specimen needs an ultrasonic clean but wanted to take the photo first in case I lose the crystal! Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack...
40022 RH Andesine, Ilmenite, Lethbridge quarry, Lethbridge, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
An interesting grouping of andesine crystals. There is a couple of sharp ilmenite crystals in the background too. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the photo below...
40021 RH2568 Clinopyroxene Subgroup, Andesine, Ilmenite, Calcite, Dreeite, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
From Joel Kirkman farm in Dreeite. Sharp green clinopyroxene crystals with white tabular andesine crystals. Also present is an ilmenite crystal to the right of the clinopyroxene (showing rainbow colouring), and tiny calcites(?) sprinkled over...
40020 RH Hyalite Opal, Miners Rest Quarry, Miners Rest, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Ex Dick Haslam Collection
40019 RH1154 Siderite, Armytage Quarry, Armytage, Surf Coast Shire, Victoria
Zoned hemispheres of siderite possibly grading into ferroan calcite. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on image below for a higher resolution version.
40018 RH Hyalite Opal, Miners Rest Quarry, Miners Rest, City of Ballarat, Victoria
An unusual shape! Reminiscent of a pipe, or a rugose coral, this hyalite opal has seeded on a prismatic augite crystal. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on...
40017 RH1345 Pharmacosiderite, Dravite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Green cubic pharmacosiderite crystals on brown dravite. The paragenesis is very clear here. Both ends of the dravite crystal are embedded in quartz. The pharmacosiderite is only on the dravite outside the quartz. Ex Dick...
40004 RH Ilmenite, Augite, Andesine, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
A hexagonal-shaped ilmenite crystal sitting on a black prismatic augite crystal. The white tabular crystals are andesine. Needle-like crystals are probably apatite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Click...
40005 RH1029 Fayalite, Andesine, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
Brown fayalite(?) crystals with grey-green andesine. Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.83mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
40003 RH Augite, Andesine, Hyalite Opal, Ilmenite, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
A fairly rough-looking white andesine crystal is perched on the end of a prismatic dark brown, almost black augite crystal. But wait there’s more. The top third of the augite crystal is coated by a...
40002 RH Hyalite Opal, Colac Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution one.
40001 RH Andesine, Augite, Apatite, Miners Rest Quarry, Miners Rest, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Ex R Haslam Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images.
5731 Pyrite, Eaglehawk Mine, Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria
Crystalline (but not crystals) of pyrite in quartz. Collected January 2021. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
7422 JL0961 Turquoise, Site 3, Edi-Cheshunt turquoise field, Whitfield, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992 from Frank Robinson.
0881 Stibnite, Red Hill, Heathcote, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
This stibnite specimen was collected from the open cut area before it was open cut. Some superb curving stibnite crystals! Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images.
7415 JL3069 Magnetite, Fluorapatite, Diopside, Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show for $1.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
7405 JL3651 Anatase, Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Judy Rowe. Judy was involved in the hand-sorting of heavy minerals from the deposit.
7404 JL1655 Cinnabar, Mercury, Jamieson Mercury mine, Quicksilver creek, Jamieson, Mansfield Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995. Ex Museum Victoria. Ex Somerset Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7403 JL1741 Gmelinite-Chabazite, Analcime, Point Sambell, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Gmelinite-chabazite intergrowth. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 75 images.
7401 JL1724 Stibiconite, Stibnite, Ringwood Gold and Antimony Mine (Antimony Mine), Ringwood, City of Maroondah, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Ruth Coulsell (fluornatrocoulsellite). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 34 images.
7400 JL1740 Chabazite, Calcite, Point Sambell, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 64 images.
7399 JL1820 Calcite, Korumburra, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson.
7389 JL1821 Clinozoisite, Mokoan quarry, Goorambat, Rural City of Benalla, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991. Ex Museum Victoria.
7388 JL3708 Chabazite, Thomsonite-Ca, Organ Pipes National Park, City of Hume/Brimbank, Victoria
The Organ Pipes National Park is enclosed in two Cities: Hume to the north of Jacksons Creek, and Brimbank to the south. It is not known which side of the creek this specimen was collected...
7380 JL3766 Siderite, Montmorillonite, Pioneer quarry, Narre Warren North, City of Casey, Victoria
Basketweave siderite. Collected by Joan Lamond in 1982. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 150 images.
7379 JL1822 Ferro-richterite, Camels Hump, Mount Macedon, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria
Mindat only lists richterite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Don Billinghurst.
7371 JL3673 Phillipsite-Na, Siderite, Pioneer quarry, Narre Warren North, City of Casey, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Jack Leach. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 80 images.
7370 JL1736 Barite, Chabazite, Redcliff Head (Red Cliff Head), Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
7369 JL1705 Hyalite Opal, Trentham Falls, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Michael Hirst.
7364 JL3382 Sasaite, Turquoise, Site 3, Edi-Cheshunt turquoise field, Whitfield, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 from Robyn Sharp.
7359 JL3034 Pyrite, Mount Tarrengower, Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from the Bendigo Show club stall for $0.50.
7352 JL3683 Olivine, Andesine, CSR Quarry, Ondit, Colac Otway Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Judy Rowe in 2000.
7350 JL3181 Thomsonite, Phillipsite, Chabazite, West Head, Flinders, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Frank Robinson.
7339 JL3068 Diopside, Cosgrove quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show in 1998 for $1.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
7303 JL3973 Pharmacosiderite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jo Price in 2003.
ncat JP194 Stibnite, Quartz, Yarra Glen, Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 90 images.
5719 Goethite replacing Pyrite, Stellerite, Calcite, Lake Cooper quarry, Corop, Campaspe Shire, Victoria
Interpenetrant slightly rounded pyrite cubes, some with truncated corners, altering to brown goethite with prismatic colourless striated prismatic stellerite crystals and minor white calcite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
ncat JP3161 Anatase, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
A large number of mostly bluish anatase crystals from an alluvial deposit. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 75 images.
5718 Goethite replacing Pyrite, North Moonlight Mine, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
A single cube of pyrite altering to goethite in a sandstone matrix. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 100 images.
2142 Antimony, Inglewood, Loddon Shire, Victoria
Tin white antimony on matrix. Specimen width 25mm.
5717 Sampleite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Intense blue thin bladed crystals, including one that has a distinct bend. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 100 images. Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
ncat WD102 Phillipsite, Calcite, Sunbury, Victoria
An unusual specimen. I am unaware of other zeolite specimens from Sunbury, although the basalt quarries do produce calcite and aragonite. This specimen also has what looks like calcite-coated prismatic augite crystals, unlike any other...
3875 Sampleite, Lake Boga, Victoria
Unusually narrow-bladed sampleite crystals. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 45 images.
ncat MB Axinite-(Fe), Actinolite, Andradite, Tremolite, Dookie Mineralogical Reserve quarry, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Lilac group of axinite crystals with green actinolite, orange andradite and white fibrous tremolite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 180 images. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Ex Gerry Morvell. Click on the image below for...
ncat M3018 Saléeite, Lake Boga, Victoria
Thin elongated saléeite crystals, extremely responsive to ultraviolet. Ex Bernie Day collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images (white light) and 14 images (UV image).
0596 Zircon, Ridge Road quarry, Daylesford, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
Single zircon crystal occurs as a xenolith in basalt. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 150 images.
30106 Quartz, Meredith, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Colourless crystal, main one being 35mm long.
0298 Ulrichite, Turquoise, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Green transparent sprays of ulrichite with a couple of turquoise balls. Height 7.5mm. Stack of 200 images. Type Locality.
0639 Gonnardite, Boral Bluestone quarry (Dunnstown quarry), Dunnstown, Moorabool Shire, Victoria
Small vugh full of silky white crystal sprays. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 200 images.
5703 Pyrite, Goethite, New Australasian Mine, Creswick, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
Pyrite cube partially altered to goethite. Collected on the dumps 31 July 2020. Crystal width 4mm. Stack of 80 images. Scene of Australia’s worst mining disaster in 1882 when 26 men perished. Water from the...
4547 Saleeite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Greenish yellow platy crystals that react strongly to Convoy longwave ultraviolet light. Width 9.25mm. Stack of 120 images (white light). Stack of 15 images (UV). Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
5693 Beudantite Group, Gold Mine, Central Goldfields, Victoria
Glassy brown bipyramidal crystals of a probable beudantite group mineral, with nearby yellowish-green material probably also the same species. Width 2.25mm. Collected underground. Stack of 90 images.
5691 Calcite, Mount Franklin, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
White agate-patterned calcite filling small vesicles in basalt. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Collected 16/7/2020.
30104 Cerussite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Siderite, Central Goldfields, Victoria
Brown-tinged cerussite crystals in argentiferous galena with pyrite and minor sphalerite and siderite. Width 11mm. Stack of 100 images.
30103 Murchison meteorite, Murchison, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
0.2g of the Murchison meteorite (9 fragments). This meteorite which fell in 1969 is classed as a CM2 Carbonaceous Chondrite. 38 mineral species have been identified including 3 Type Locality minerals. Largest piece in photo...
5169 JL1507 Chabazite, Phillipsite, Calcite, Old Melbourne Quarries, Victoria
Phacolite habit of chabazite. Brown ferroan calcite is fluorescent and phosphorescent. Width 11mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria.
5174 JL0004 Gold, Moliagul, Victoria
Cluster of tiny gold crystals. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Obtained from Gordon Dicker in 1973.
5192 JL1451 Newberyite, Skipton Caves, Mt. Widderin (Anderson’s Hill), Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
Ex Museum of Victoria. Width 11mm. Stack of 70 images. Some of the smaller crystals are transparent.
5677 Gold, Sebastopol, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Small amount of gold in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 70 images.
5675 Cowlesite, Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria
One of the rarer zeolites. Silky white sprays. Width 11mm. Stack of 140 images.
9043 JP2247 Rutile, Dravite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Blocky brown rutile crystals with green-brown prismatic dravite. Height 5.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9120 JP2802 Gold, Bendigo, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Gold (trying very hard to be an octahedral crystal) in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 58 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9037 JP2292 Gold, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Very small patches of hackly gold embedded in quartz. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9036 JP2344 Bismuth, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Silvery-white crystalline native bismuth. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
5672 Gold, Goethite, New Penrose Mine, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Small amount of gold with iridescent goethite in white quartz.
5671 Gold, Goethite, New Penrose Mine, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Bright gold patches with iridescent goethite in white quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 50 images.