Australasia
0871 Malachite, Pyromorphite, Brown’s Prospect, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Northern Territory
Pyromorphite on malachite from The Golden Pocket, collected December 2012 by Dave Rosewall and Paul Melville. Specimen measures 80x+60x45mm.
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
0787 Seamanite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Very pale pink prismatic crystals
0783 Calcite, Agate Creek, Etheridge Shire, Queensland
Cluster of calcite crystals from inside a geode
0775 Calcite, 6 Level, CSA Mine, Cobar, New South Wales
Small cluster of calcite crystals, no matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0753 Barite, Moralana, South Australia
This site is apparently extinct. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
0607 Azurite, Quartz, Malachite, Burra Burra Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Ex Joan Lamond 3156, received as a gift from Frank Robinson in 1986. Drusy quartz coats azurite crystals. One or two are pseudomorphs of malachite after azurite.
0591 Thomsonite-Ca, Chabazite-Ca, Tylden quarry, Tylden, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond 3844, personally collected by Joan in 1992. Complex twinned chabazite.
