Yellow crystals of sulphur on carbonised wood. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1990 from Arthur Roffey. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Mindat lists erionite-K and erionite-Ca, with the latter the only one tested (Rruff). Isolated prisms and small groups of colourless erionite in a vugh. Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand)....
An aesthetic spray of hexagonal erionite prisms. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 95 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Twinned phillipsite crystals. These clearly show the twinning planes. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Twinned phillipsite crystals on and with calcite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
From the Moeraki Point quarry. Small colourless quartz on white calcite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 120 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Akatoreite locality. Ex Geoff Thomas Collection. Specimen is 70x57x28mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Museum Victoria, collected by Neville Cook in 1983. 18mm wide. Labelled as Mount Titiroa but there is doubt about the locality, especially with brown akatoreite present. More likely Akatore Creek....
Slab 116mm wide. Shown in normal light and backlit. Unidentified black manganese mineral, possibly pyrolusite. Backlit photo shows a band of translucent cherty material. Click on the images below for higher resolution versions.
Blue ball of cavansite with white balls of okenite on colourless chabazite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990 from Stan Rowe.
Elongated pyrite crystals, one as a “flag”, with a pyrite cube at the tip, on colourless to white chabazite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Judy Rowe.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Judy Rowe.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Tiny fragment in a capsule. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2001 from Jocelyn Thornton at the Mineralogical Societies Seminar in Hobart.
Type Locality. Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
Labelled as ferrosilite, but Mindat says “erroneously reported” so likely enstatite. Obtained by Joan Lamond from Judy Rowe in 2003.
A very fine and rare group of native silver crystals from Waihi, an area known for its gold. It measures 20mm across.
Small cavities containing white bladed barite, colourless pseudo-hexagonal chabazite, colourless prismatic apatite and brown siderite. Width of view 3.75mm. Stack of 80 images.
Sharp and very thin crystals of biotite with white concertina zircon crystal (indicated by red arrow). Width 5.5mm. Stack of 100 images.
Black manganese oxides on curved white calcite crystals and colourless pseudocubic chabazite crystals. Width 11mm. Stack of 100 images.
Colourless to white bladed crystals of hydromagnesite. There is also an unknown green tabular crystal towards the top left of the specimen, maybe apophyllite (see closeup). Width 18mm. Stack of 180 images. Ex Bernie and...
Pale blue tufts of cavansite with green crystal of waipouaite(?) on chabazite pseudocubes. Aranga is the Type Locality for waipouaite. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 110 images. Most crystals of waipouaite are almost black, but many...
Typical coffin-shaped crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Shantytown. Jack Nelson Collection
Ex Jack Nelson Collection
Flattened alluvial gold. John Betts.
Collected in 1999, Rod Martin
Collected in 1999, Rod Martin
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Judy Rowe. Sulphur not on sinter matrix.
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
Rutheniridosmine and Iridosmine (iridium) crystalline silvery grey granules, with native gold
Labelled as Black Agate Stain Vegetation
Margaret Brown Collection
Ex Joan Lamond 3636, acquired as a swap with Jocelyn Thornton. Patch of gold in quartz with minor sulphide mineralisation, possibly arsenopyrite.
Phillipsite-K? Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand).
Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand).
Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand).
Typical blue patches in matrix. Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand).
As green octahedral crystals. Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand).
Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand).
Mossburn serpentine quarry. Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand).
Orange crystals. Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand).
Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand).
Massive scheelite in quartz. Typical bright bluish-white fluorescence under shortwave UV. Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand).
1501 Hypersthene (probably enstatite), and magnetite, from Mount Tarawera, Okataina, Rotorua District, Bay of Plenty Region (Te Moana-a-Toi), North Island, New Zealand. Photo width is 3.33mm and a 46 photo stack. Mount Tarawera last erupted...
5613 Cristobalite and sanidine in obsidian, Roadcut Section, Poihipi Road, Taupo District, Waikato Region, North Island, New Zealand. Photo width 5mm. Stack of 80 shots.
Hendersons Quarry, Mount Ngongotaha, Rotorua District, Bay of Plenty Region (Te Moana-a-Toi), North Island, New Zealand Photo width 11mm View Larger Map | Get Directions
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