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...
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...
Ex Dick Haslam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution one.
Ex R Haslam Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images.
Crystalline (but not crystals) of pyrite in quartz. Collected January 2021. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992 from Frank Robinson.
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.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show for $1.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Judy Rowe. Judy was involved in the hand-sorting of heavy minerals from the deposit.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995. Ex Museum Victoria. Ex Somerset Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images.
Gmelinite-chabazite intergrowth. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 75 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Ruth Coulsell (fluornatrocoulsellite). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 34 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 64 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991. Ex Museum 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...
Basketweave siderite. Collected by Joan Lamond in 1982. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 150 images.
Mindat only lists richterite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Don Billinghurst.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Jack Leach. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 80 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Michael Hirst.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 from Robyn Sharp.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from the Bendigo Show club stall for $0.50.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Judy Rowe in 2000.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jack Leach at the Nunawading Show in 1998 for $1.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
Labelled as Briagolong. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Doug Gaw at the 1999 Waverley Show. Width of View 5mm.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Jo Price in 2003.
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 90 images.
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.
A large number of mostly bluish anatase crystals from an alluvial deposit. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 75 images.
A single cube of pyrite altering to goethite in a sandstone matrix. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 100 images.
Tin white antimony on matrix. Specimen width 25mm.
Intense blue thin bladed crystals, including one that has a distinct bend. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 100 images. Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
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...
Unusually narrow-bladed sampleite crystals. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 45 images.
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.
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).
Single zircon crystal occurs as a xenolith in basalt. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 150 images.
Colourless crystal, main one being 35mm long.
Green transparent sprays of ulrichite with a couple of turquoise balls. Height 7.5mm. Stack of 200 images. Type Locality.
Small vugh full of silky white crystal sprays. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 200 images.
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...
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.
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.
White agate-patterned calcite filling small vesicles in basalt. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Collected 16/7/2020.
Brown-tinged cerussite crystals in argentiferous galena with pyrite and minor sphalerite and siderite. Width 11mm. Stack of 100 images.
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...
Phacolite habit of chabazite. Brown ferroan calcite is fluorescent and phosphorescent. Width 11mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria.
Cluster of tiny gold crystals. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Obtained from Gordon Dicker in 1973.
Ex Museum of Victoria. Width 11mm. Stack of 70 images. Some of the smaller crystals are transparent.
Small amount of gold in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 70 images.
One of the rarer zeolites. Silky white sprays. Width 11mm. Stack of 140 images.
Blocky brown rutile crystals with green-brown prismatic dravite. Height 5.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Gold (trying very hard to be an octahedral crystal) in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 58 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Very small patches of hackly gold embedded in quartz. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Silvery-white crystalline native bismuth. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Small amount of gold with iridescent goethite in white quartz.
Bright gold patches with iridescent goethite in white quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 50 images.
Although not that uncommon, zircon xenocrysts that have come up as part of the molten material are usually hard to spot. This zircon has only been affected a little. It also exhibits a nice rainbow...
Pale greenish rounded pseudohexagonal twins of tridymite with goethite(?). Oxidation due to the breakdown of either ilmenite or magnetite. You can see the hexagonal outline of the tridymite here and there.
Black spheres of goethite on blue plumbogummite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Basketweave siderite with colourless drillbit twin phillipsite-Na crystals. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 38 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Small pyrite cubes with minor octahedral corners, colourless to orange stellerite crystals and white laumontite. Height 4.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Many flakes of gold on matrix. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Tiny crystals of calcite, phillipsite and chabazite on the sides of aragonite needles. Aragonite fluoresces white with a fading greenish afterglow. Photo width 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Agate-patterned calcite, commonly called eye agates, are generally found loose on the eastern side of the bay. Video best viewed full screen.
White natrolite and red (hematite-stained) gmelinite in a vugh in basalt. Video best viewed full screen.
Feathery apple-green sprays of the rare copper uranium phosphate, ulrichite. 5mm across.
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
A rich specimen of apple-green micro crystals of ulrichite.
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from the late Val Hannah.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from the late Frank Robinson in 1995.
Ex Bernie Day specimen. As labelled. Suspect that it is more likely a Phillip Island specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Coarsely crystalline gold in white quartz. Chris Ah Yee.
Ex Margaret Brown Collection,
Waverley Show 2017
Type Locality for Betpakdalite-FeFe. Ex Bernie Day Collection M2249, Margaret Day
White albite growing epitaxially on orange orthoclase.
Bluish bladed crystal group. Ex Roger Colling Collection #260.
Coarse hackly gold on contact edge of quartz reef
Cluster of pale blue barite crystals. Ex Roger Colling Collection #288.
Matrix of quartz with individual colourless crystals to 13mm (largest doubly terminated). Specimen 53x40x20mm.
Dark grey massive portlandite with muscovite mica. Found in the northeast corner of the quarry. Ex Museum Victoria, ex Robin Sharp
Mostly white apophyllite with a small number of prismatic natrolite crystals, scalenohedral calcite crystals, and drusy phillipsite. 60x50x40mm. Ex Museum of Victoria.
Collected 26/8/1990. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Type Locality. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Type Locality. ex Steve Taylor. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Unknown White. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Bismuthinite? ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Hyalite? Sulphates? ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Hyalite? Sulphates? ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Purple octahedral fluorite. Tan coloured pancaked” feldspar?”
