Victoria
1840 Turquoise, Kidwellite, Lake Boga, Victoria
The “kidwellite” is likely meurigite.
1547 Gold, Fiery Creek, Beaufort, Pyrenees Shire, Victoria
Crystalline nugget 4.66g.
1517 Zircon, Point Leo, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria
Waterworn zircons half-filling a micro box. Colours range from pale yellow to dark reddish brown. Many fluoresce bright yellow under shortwave UV. Collected by Ron and Betty Wallace.
0843 Albite, Fluorapatite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria
Single iron-stained fluorapatite with three small albite crystals, sitting on orthoclase
0834 Bleasdaleite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria
Tiny clusters of olive crystals
0631 Ferrierite-(Mg), Chabazite, Redcliff Head, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Pearly white hemispheres of ferrierite-Mg, showing the radiating form on broken surfaces. Look closely and you can see orange chabazite beneath the clay layer, and a few tiny colourless chabazite crystals sprinkled on top of...
0633 Siderite, Vivianite, Wannon Falls, Wannon River, Wannon, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond 3575, acquired from Museum Victoria. Dark brown trigonal crystals. Minor vivianite on one edge.
0591 Thomsonite-Ca, Chabazite-Ca, Tylden quarry, Tylden, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond 3844, personally collected by Joan in 1992. Complex twinned chabazite.
0569 Plumbogummite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond 3947, received in a swap with Jo Price (Melbourne). As white crusts and tiny white balls.
