Pale yellow clay(?) coating on analcime. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ragged white calcite on red-white analcime crystals. The calcite fluoresces bright white. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale yellow-green autunite crystals (that fluoresce strongly) with cores of blue-green torbernite. The autunite has probably grown epitaxially on the torbernite. Ex Rod Martin. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the...
Colourless hexagonal tabular plates of levyne on rounded crystalline aggregates of thomsonite (eg: bottom of photo) and chabazite (eg: top of photo). Also present is what looks like a tiny analcime crystal on one of...
A red prismatic pseudobrookite embedded in chabazite. Ex Margaret Graham. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black magnetite octahedra, some with traces of chlorite on their faces. Some magnetite crystals are completely encased in chlorite. Blocky orthoclase crystals form part of the cavity lining. Brown sheaf or club-shaped siderite, yellow hexagonal...
Two pieces. Colourless twinned phillipsite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rhombohedral siderite (after calcite?), chabazite-Na (herschelite), and a needle of apatite with orange chlorite grown on it (in front of siderite). Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for...
Octahedral magnetite crystals with yellowish chabazite and dark brown siderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White zoned barite with dark brown siderite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 31 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin white bladed stacked crystals. Ex Trevor Hosking, collected in 1995. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Chabazite-Na and an apatite needle in a vugh in andesite. An opalescent effect is produced by the larger crystal lying flat in the vugh with only one face exposed. The surface has a slightly matt...
Dark brown spherical siderite with colourless orthoclase lining the vugh. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as apatite but I think the long prismatic crystal is gypsum. The termination is wrong for apatite. There is greenish-brown chlorite and a brown siderite with a hollow core, left hand side of the...
Pale yellow hexagonal chabazite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. The second photo was taken by Judy Rowe and uploaded to Mindat in 2009. It would have been a single shot, not...
Yellow and colourless hexagonal chabazite crystals with minor colourless orthoclase and brown siderite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Three colourless analcime crystals isolated the rest, with smaller rounded brown siderites, and one chabazite crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A colourless gypsum crystal with white hexagonal chabazite. Unsure what the hollowed out crystal is/was (bottom left of photo). The yellow needles are possibly iron-stained or replaced apatite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50...
Unidentified white mineral (possibly thomsonite?) in analcime. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pink fluorescing scalenohedral calcite crystals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A bed of natrolite needles on phillipsite with a few small calcite crystals. There are a couple of even smaller highly lustrous chabazite crystals perched on natrolite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 135 images....
Prismatic natrolite on analcime crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Crystal clear twinned phillipsite showing the interesting nontronite background. A couple of long thin erionite crystals also present. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
An arch comprised of mostly chabazite crystals with a small amount of bladed thomsonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White “snowflakes” with grey centres. Ex Dick Dufton. Width of view 8mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Red parallel growth realgar with tiny orange orpiment patches. Ex Trevor Hocking. Width of view 6.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Iridescent siderite with hexagonal chabazite-Na crystals. Also present very thin long apatite needles. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of sulphur crystals with globular hyalite opal. Width of view 7.75mm wide. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated hoppered crystal of sulphur 14.5mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharply-terminated crystal of sulphur with interesting growth patterns 11.5mm tall, no matrix. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated “herringbone” crystal of sulphur 16.5mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated hoppered group of crystals of sulphur 17.25mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated hoppered crystal of sulphur 22mm wide, no matrix. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny group of sulphur crystals on sinter. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orthorhombic crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Beads of hyalite on sinter. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny group of sulphur crystals on sinter. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Filiform pyrite with a few right angle bends. Also present is a brown chlorite(?). Both sit on two generations of calcite crystals, the first colourless, the second golden. Ex Brent Torrens. Width of view 3mm....
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).
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).
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.
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