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
Zeunerite not fluorescent. Maybe Novacekite-I as well?
Single bright white fluorescent unknown
Two bright white unknown fluorescent areas
Labelled as Dachsbusch, Huttenberg. Mindat lists sapphire in the latter, not the former., Excalibur Minerals
Other species present. Ex John Sobolewski, Matt Gibbs
Safflorite pseudomorph after Silver and Proustite, Richard Bell
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. Labelled as thomsonite, but clearly identical habit to offretite pictured on Mindat.
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
White picromerite crystals (dehydrated to white, opaque leonite) with colourless halite.
Brown micro veins. Probably from the same stock as is being sold by David Garske (1/2014) which is from Tony Jones, 2013, ex David Shannon, ex Mikon.
