Sharp prismatic green crystals with quartz, dark green chlorite, and unknown pink balls. Height of view 5mm. Stack of 60 images. Locality not specifically in Mindat. Maltatal is a river north of Malta.
Type Locality. Orange fibrous laths frozen in matrix. Width of view 18mm. Stack of 120 images.
Lustrous black rounded wires of tenorite. Width 7.5mm. Stack of 90 images.
Orange cubes. Type Locality. Width 6mm. Stack of 90 images.
Orange to red hessonite garnet showing a combination of dodecahedron and hexoctahedron forms with green curving worms of clinochlore. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 300 images.
Colourless prismatic natrolite with a stalactite of colourless phillipsite. Width 7.5mm. Stack of 200 images.
Rounded crystals are veatchite, prismatic crystals are colemanite. Specimen is 19mm wide. Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
Type Locality. Polished section & analysis of this very rare lead-iron analogue of pentlandite, from the type locality, present as typical submicroscopic grains embedded in massive sulphides. Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (4272) obtained in 2007....
Zoned white to brown barite with tiny colourless mimetite crystals and white “smithsonite”. The latter is not listed in Mindat. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 200 images. Ex Ted Johnson.
A small number of dark green uvarovite garnets with a single bronze pyrrhotite. Width 8mm. Stack of 150 images.
Colourless crystals. Width 11mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Green brochantite and pale blue devilline. Width 9mm. Stack of 44 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Fiery brown axinite associated with and included by pale needles of actinolite. Width 18mm. Stack of 100 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Shiny black crystals. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Closeup photo width 2.25mm and stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Olive green beudantite crystals, and some as an epimorph after a cubic mineral (pyrite?). Width 11mm. Stack of 80 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Euhedral oxidised pyrite crystals with small rutile needles. Width 11mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Dark bluish anatase crystals. Width 7mm. Stack of 50 (dark one) and 70 (one with reflected face) images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Tiny orange-brown raspite crystals and yellow stolzite crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp colourless crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
In slag. Colourless octahedral crystals of senarmontite, and yellow sulphur(?) crystals in other cavities. Maybe rosickýite? Senarmontite: Width 9mm. Stack of 54 images. “Sulphur”: Width 1.55. Stack of 16 images. I had to overexpose the...
Colourless tabular anorthite (not shown in photo), black esseneite, colourless thin prismatic wollastonite and colourless euhedral leucite. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Green acicular camérolaite with light blue fibrous cyanotrichite. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Greyish-yellow monazite with yellow-orange anatase, colourless quartz and white apatite. The apatite fluoresces a pinkish white. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp bluish crystals of anatase on quartz. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Hexagonal pale-coloured prism of synchisite (label says Ce, but Mindat shows this as questionable), with silver hexagonal plates of hematite. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 56 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Cluster of pink octahedral crystals, pale blue fluorescence. Ex Roger Colling Collection.
A single pale yellow crystal. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Rich hackly gold in quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Tarnished silver tetrahedral crystals. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 24 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Brown puffballs of kidwellite in a cavity. Width 9mm. Stack of 42 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Brown equant crystals of andradite garnet. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 89 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp black prismatic pseudobrookite, colourless hexagonal nepheline, white fluorapatite, brownish biotite, single reddish rhonite. Width 2.77mm. Stack of 16 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Colourless blocky crystals fluoresce orange under longwave UV. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 64 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp orange-red doubly-terminated anatase crystals with platey brookite, on quartz with minor hematite. The specimen was only labelled as anatase, but the brookite, although small, is very nice. Header photo (anatase) width 9mm, stack of...
Single yellow transparent scheelite crystal. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Flat bladed bright blue crystals. Width 4.5mm. Ex Jo Price Collection.
A lot going on here. Orange phantoms in quartz crystals. These are coated in white drusy quartz. Then there are colourless quartz scepters. But not just at the tips. There are tiny little sceptres ALONG...
Lots of orange-brown hexagonal crystals, some with prism faces. Matrix exhibits a bright creamy fluorescence.
Complex black sphalerite with orange coated quartz crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
Fracture runs right through specimen. No sign of any repairs. Video best viewed full screen.
Hematite inclusions in amethyst. Video best viewed full screen.
Tiny white calcite on yellowish calcite, chalcopyrite partially covered by sphalerite, and quartz and colourless fluorite. Video best viewed full screen.
Cream bertrandite with small pyrite cubes, black ferberite, and orange-brown rhodochrosite. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Labelled as clinozoisite but according to Mindat, all analysed specimens are epidote.
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Some orange fluorescence – cerussite maybe. Video best viewed full screen.
Fluorapatite crystals to 14mm across, pale pink fluorescence under longwave with blue rims. No response under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
Two small anatase crystals and albite on matrix. Video best viewed full screen.
Group of platy hematite crystals. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
Cluster of lustrous sharp crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Type Locality. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection No. 3252.
Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection No. 4132. A sulphate that has a bad effect of paper labels, as can be seen! The label no longer is in contact with the specimen. Labelled as simply Teruel, but...
Type Locality. Tiny white fibres in a vial. Ex R. C. Erd, 1961.
Brown ball on quartz matrix. Minor pyrite present. Ex Elena van Schriver.
Cream flattened calcite crystals on tapering quartz crystals.
Cluster of colorless-white quartz crystals. Collected by Tim Greenland in Spring, 1968.
Cluster of smoky quartz crystals on a feldspar base. Labelled as Santa lucia de Tallano.
Stalactite of black crystals of sphalerite with a quartz crystal and minor pyrite on a few sphalerite crystal terminations, 58mm wide.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Pat Sutton at the Bendigo Show.
Ex Museum Victoria, acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999.
White fibrous fluorescent
Carolinos Mine, Jack Nelson Collection
Carolinos Mine, Jack Nelson Collection
Ex Jack Nelson Collection
Unlikely locality based on Mindat
“Antozonite” – Anzeme Mine, Gueret, Creuse, France. Advice on locality from Jean-francois Brochard
Sulphur(?) fluorescing
