Yellow prismatic pyromorphite crystals with tiny reddish-brown stolzite (not in photo). Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 106 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale brown hexagonal crystals with complex terminations. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Originally labelled as gmelinite but it is clearly twinned chabazite. Colourless pseudohexagonal chabazite (phacolite) with rhombic chabazite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny sprays of ferrarisite on pink erythrite. Ex Jim Daly. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Click on the images below for a higher resolution version. Below: 1. Guérinite, Sainfeldite. Below: 2. Picropharmacolite. Below: 3. Rauenthalite, Picropharmacolite, Sainfeldite. Below: 4. Phaunouxite, Rauenthalite, Picropharmacolite, Haidingerite, Sainfeldite.
Type Locality for lauite which is in another vugh. Cacoxenite on probably metatorbernite. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A spherical colourless fluorite that fluoresces purple-blue under longwave UV. Orange fluorescence is likely sodalite. Ex Münchener Micromounters. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images (UV) and 60 images (white light). Click on the...
Greenish-grey zircons with black inclusions and tiny colourless crystals (sanidine?) sprinkled on terminations, and as most of the matrix. The sanidine fluoresces pink under shortwave UV. Associated with black “biotite” and orange fluorescing sodalite under...
Colourless monoclinic crystals of claudetite with pale yellow sulphur crystals in slag. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Radial aggregates of metallic grey arsenolamprite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Labelled as thomsonite, but clearly identical habit to offretite pictured on Mindat. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Purple cobaltkoritnigite, pink erythrite balls, thin bladed prismatic silky white hörnesite, pale pink sainfeldite, white weilite, and silky white sprays of picropharmacolite. Type Locality for picropharmacolite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 36 images. Click...
Prismatic wulfenite with smaller acicular mimetite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
Vughs with crocoite crystals in a massive piece of crocoite, with yellow powdery coatings and small crystals of bindheimite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 61 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Tiny blue jeremejevite with white sodalite, colourless prismatic topaz and colourless/grey sanidine. Hematite also on specimen. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale pink puffballs with darker pink surfaces. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White weilite with pink tufts of erythrite, and pale pink balls of sainfeldite(?) and deeper pink-purple prismatic crystals of sainfeldite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 37 images (weilite) and 63...
Octahedral crystals of faujasite with opal spheres and coating. Exact species of faujasite not known. Ca, Mg and Na recorded (the latter two being Type Locality species). Width of view 5mm. Stack of 51 images....
Pink puffballs of erythrite in a cavity that was originally likely filled with sulphides. Acquired from Helmut Braith. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Not a great specimen, but colourless crystals of phosphophyllite present, some showing indications of twinning, with brown sphalerite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from the Holland Micro Group.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from the Holland Micro Group.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1997 from a Swiss Collection for $2.00.
Ex Museum Victoria, acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Width of view 2.5mm.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 from the Holland Micro Group.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 2000.
Orange cubes. Type Locality. Width 6mm. Stack of 90 images.
Colourless prismatic natrolite with a stalactite of colourless phillipsite. Width 7.5mm. Stack of 200 images.
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.
Type Locality. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection No. 3252.
Orange fluorescence sphalerite? Mindat records tennantite not tetrahedrite
Thomsonite not in Mindat
Green fluorescence due to uranyl ions? But doesn’t fluoresce under SW!
Pale pink fluorescent matrix
Olive green cubes. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Type Locality.
Single bright white fluorescent unknown
Two bright white unknown fluorescent areas
Zeunerite not fluorescent. Maybe Novacekite-I as well?
Labelled as Dachsbusch, Huttenberg. Mindat lists sapphire in the latter, not the former., Excalibur Minerals
Safflorite pseudomorph after Silver and Proustite, Richard Bell
Other species present. Ex John Sobolewski, Matt Gibbs
Ex Erwin Schuhbauer Collection, Helmut Braith
Munchener Micromounter, Helmut Braith
Black augite crystals in embedded in a matrix of weathered olivine. Label says Lasbach, with the original handwritten label being misinterpreted. Identical material to Limberg Quarries ones listed in Mindat so undoubtedly the locality. ex...
Pinkish raspite (single crystal), cream chamosite balls, prismatic arsenopyrite, including some partial trillings, colourless fluorite, well-formed chalcopyrite crystals and colourless quartz crystals. Ex Wolfgang Henkel.
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Museum Victoria.
Type Locality. ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
From a rare species collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection.
ex Joan Lamond Collection. White crystals. Other species present but not identified (tridymite?, enstatite?, phlogopite?).
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Namuwite erroneously reported according to Mindat (Uwe Kolitsch, 2012). It is actually Unnamed (Gordaite-related Ca-Zn Sulphate Chloride Hydrate). ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Flat topped colourless prisms of calcite on matrix. The underside has acicular millerite (rare at this location) and hematite. Ex Aug Kranz hand-written label carbonate of lime. Ex A. Kranz in Bonn, Oct 23. Ex...
Reddish-brown loose crystals. Ex Dennis McMurdie, ex Minerals Unlimited. Originally called koppite.
Jim Daly 11/2007 (Roy I. Grim coll’n)
Jim Daly 11/2007 (Roy I. Grim coll’n)
Diederik Visser 3/2005
Diederik Visser 3/2005
Diederik Visser 3/2005
Diederik Visser 3/2005
Fluorvarulite not a species – unknown what this is.
Silver aggregate. Said to be from original material of 1881.
White aggregates on phillipsite with pale green prismatic crystals of aegirine-augite
Type locality for sailaufite. Reddish black crystals with black beraunite.
Type locality. Colourless crystals in viens
