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.
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.
9012 JP2963 Zircon, Middle Hill, Mount Anakie, Anakie, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
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...
20055 Tridymite, Spring Hill, Macedon Ranges, Victoria
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.
9122 JP2754 Plumbogummite, Goethite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Black spheres of goethite on blue plumbogummite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9114 JP2734 Phillipsite-Na, Siderite, Pioneer quarry, Narre Warren North, City of Casey, Victoria
Basketweave siderite with colourless drillbit twin phillipsite-Na crystals. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 38 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9097 JP2308 Laumontite, Pyrite, Stellerite, Graham Quarry, Ascot Hills, Dookie, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
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.
9076 JP2761 Gold, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Many flakes of gold on matrix. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9007 JP2350 Aragonite, Calcite, Phillipsite-K, Chabazite-Ca, Trentham Falls, Trentham, Hepburn Shire, Victoria
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.
30101 Calcite, Kitty Miller Bay, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Agate-patterned calcite, commonly called eye agates, are generally found loose on the eastern side of the bay. Video best viewed full screen.
30099 Natrolite, Gmelinite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
White natrolite and red (hematite-stained) gmelinite in a vugh in basalt. Video best viewed full screen.
2639 Ulrichite, Lake Boga, Victoria
Feathery apple-green sprays of the rare copper uranium phosphate, ulrichite. 5mm across.
30052 Pyromorphite, Limestone Creek, Benambra, Victoria, Australia
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30050 Ulrichite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia
A rich specimen of apple-green micro crystals of ulrichite.
ncat M2255 Rancieite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
ncat M2253 Natrolite, Analcime, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
ncat M997 Erionite-Na, Levyne, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
ncat M554 Gypsum, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
ncat M210 Cowlesite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
ncat M127 Thomsonite-Ca, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
ncat JL3322 Siderite, Glenmaggie Quarry, Seaton, Gippsland, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from the late Val Hannah.
ncat JL1740 Chabazite, Point Sambell, Phillip Island, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond from the late Frank Robinson in 1995.
ncat M509 Stilbite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Ex Bernie Day specimen. As labelled. Suspect that it is more likely a Phillip Island specimen.
ncat M129 Gmelinite, Natrolite, Analcime, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
ncat M123 Natrolite, Analcime, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
ncat M901 Calcite, Chabazite-Na, Bundoora, Victoria
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
30046 Gold, Glenluce, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria, Australia
Coarsely crystalline gold in white quartz. Chris Ah Yee.
4782 Gold, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Waverley Show 2017
4829 Portlandite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Ex Margaret Brown Collection,
4747 M2249 Betpakdalite-FeFe, Ferrimolybdite, Mount Moliagul, Moliagul, Central Goldfields Shire, Victoria
Type Locality for Betpakdalite-FeFe. Ex Bernie Day Collection M2249, Margaret Day
30019 Albite, Orthoclase, Smoky Quartz, Muscovite, Glenrowan, Victoria
White albite growing epitaxially on orange orthoclase.
20014 Vivianite, Wannon Falls, Wannon River, Wannon, Victoria
Bluish bladed crystal group. Ex Roger Colling Collection #260.
20008 Gold, Moonlight Mine, Berringa, Victoria
Coarse hackly gold on contact edge of quartz reef
20012 Barite, Old Quarry Road, Heathcote, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Cluster of pale blue barite crystals. Ex Roger Colling Collection #288.
10038 Portlandite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Dark grey massive portlandite with muscovite mica. Found in the northeast corner of the quarry. Ex Museum Victoria, ex Robin Sharp
10035 Quartz, Whroo State Forest, Rushwoth, Victoria
Matrix of quartz with individual colourless crystals to 13mm (largest doubly terminated). Specimen 53x40x20mm.
10008 Fluorapophyllite-(K), Calcite, Natrolite, Phillipsite, Harkaway quarry, Narre Warren, Victoria
Mostly white apophyllite with a small number of prismatic natrolite crystals, scalenohedral calcite crystals, and drusy phillipsite. 60x50x40mm. Ex Museum of Victoria.
8195 Anatase, Pyramid Hill granite quarry (Mawson’s Quarry), Pyramid Hill, Loddon Shire, Victoria
Collected 26/8/1990. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8182 Selwynite, Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Buloke Shire, Victoria
Type Locality. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8183 Pittongite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
Type Locality. ex Steve Taylor. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8132 Pseudobrookite, Hematite, Calcite, Mount Shadwell, Mortlake, Moyne Shire, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8090 Pittongite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8075 Unidentified Species, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
Unknown White. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8076 Bismuthinite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
Bismuthinite? ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8077 Molybdenite, Arsenopyrite, Dravite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8078 Pharmacosiderite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8079 Unidentified Species, Goethite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8080 Dravite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8068 Opal, Pyrite, Unidentified Species, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
Hyalite? Sulphates? ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8069 Opal, Pyrite, Unidentified Species, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
Hyalite? Sulphates? ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8070 Baryte, Pyrite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8063 Covellite, Dravite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8067 Plumbogummite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8047 Unidentified Species, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8051 Unidentified Species, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8053 Unidentified Species, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8061 Goethite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8041 Unidentified Species, Pyrite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8044 Unidentified Species, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8045 Unidentified Species, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
4612 Fluorite, Smoky Quartz, Unidentified Species, Glenrowan, Victoria
Purple octahedral fluorite. Tan coloured pancaked” feldspar?”
4379 Sertularia astuces (Graptolite), Spring Gully, Bendigo, Victoria
K & M Brown Collection
4374 Calcite, Barite, Bundoora Quarry, Victoria
K & M Brown Collection
4366 Antimony, Queen’s Birthday Mine, Goldsborough, near Dunolly, Victoria
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
4367 Planerite, Road Cutting, Cheshunt, Victoria
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
4365 Bismuth, Bismuthinite, Pittong, near Linton, Victoria
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
4346 Phlogopite, Greenvale Reservoir, 25k north of Melbourne, Victoria
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
4336 Maghemite, Amphitheatre, Pyrenees Highway, Victoria
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
3747 Selwynite, Coppermine Lane, Heathcote, Victoria
Rock made up of chromite, augite, mica and another Cr mineral
2937 Quartz, Andersons Creek, Warrandyte, Victoria
One of the very first mineral specimens that I collected.
6102 Allanite-(Ce), Titanite, Raglan-Mount Cole road cuts, Raglan, Beaufort, Pyrenees Shire, Victoria
Prismatic allanite-(Ce) crystal broken along C axis with small brown titanite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection.
6089 Gold, Castlemaine, Victoria
Small nugget, about 8mm tall, very coarse with minor quartz
6078 Barite, Heathcote, Victoria
Gemmy blue crystals of barite on an off white chalky matrix from Heathcote. Collected by Jon Mommers on a Minsoc Vic field trip in the 1980s, probably 1982
6080 Gold, Moonlight Mine, Berringa, Victoria
Two small coarse gold in white quartz specimens
6077 Beryl (Aquamarine), Mount Bolton, Learmonth, Victoria
A single terminated beryl variety aquamarine crystal, which was recovered from a pegmatite. The crystal has a bluish green colour and some iron staining. Described as coming from near Lake Wendouree, Ballarat during Parks works,...
6065 Gold, Maryborough, Victoria
Alluvial or deep lead nugget with minor quartz, 0.38g.
6061 Fluorapatite, Schorl, Pyramid Hill granite quarry (Mawson’s Quarry), Pyramid Hill, Victoria
Schorl inclusion in apatite, no matrix. Collected by Margaret Brown 19/3/1996
5377 Struvite, Newberyite, Skipton Caves, Ballarat, Victoria
JL1332 Struvite altering to newberyite. Ex Museum Victoria
5370 Eosphorite, Wycheproof Quarry, Wycheproof, Victoria
JL1172. Ex Museum Victoria
5361 Siderite, Pioneer Quarry, Narre Warren, Victoria
JL0685 Basket Weave
5359 Siderite, Chabazite, Pioneer Quarry, Narre Warren, Victoria
JL0878 Basket Weave
5358 Pyrite, Barite, West Head, Flinders, Victoria
JL0942. Frank Robinson
5288 Gonnardite, Analcime, Dunnstown, near Ballarat, Victoria
Minsoc Xmas Auction
5183 Anatase, Silver Creek, Beechworth, Victoria
JL0249. Ex Museum Vic
5182 Pyrite, Montmorillonite, West Head, Flinders, Victoria
JL0728. Frank Robinson
5166 Dolomite, Little Bird Rock, Flinders, Victoria
JL1526 Dendrites. Joan Taylor
5168 Chabazite, Calcite, Old Melbourne Quarries, Victoria
JL1506 Phacolite. Ex Museum Vic
5158 Saleeite, Muscovite, Wycheproof Quarry, Wycheproof, Victoria
JL1541. Richard Bacon $1
5157 Chabazite, Calcite, Old Melbourne Quarries, Victoria
JL1508 Phacolite. Ex Museum Vic
5107 Aragonite, Merri Creek, Broadmeadows, Victoria
Agate-patterned calcite