Specular iridescent hematite with botryoidal prehnite and minor white albite. Some massive calcite present, some of which fluoresces red under longwave UV. Width of view 3mm, stack of 50 images (hematite). Width of view 6mm,...
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Brown grossular garnet crystals in vughs with trigonal hematite crystals. Acquired by Joan in 1994 from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Second photo 6mm...
Green epidote, white albite and colourless thomsonite? Light green balls may be chlorite or pumpellyite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Two generations of garnet, the first being darker orange-brown, the second being smaller very pale orange. Hematite in an adjacent vugh. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on...
Colourless calcite crystals with a ball of prehnite (not in photo) and a pinwheel prehnite (bottom right of photo). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image...
Pale bluish-green fibrous anthophyllite on green chlorite. Calcite crystals in some vughs. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Chlorite alone image 3mm and 80. Click on the images below for a higher resolution...
A white analcime crystal 20mm across, with orange to pink garnets on a green garnet matrix, colourless prismatic thomsonite(?) and black hematite.
White albite, green epidote, and colourless thomsonite, with tiny grey-green chlorite crystals. A vugh on the “bottom” of the specimen contains some nice calcite crystals that fluoresce red under shortwave UV. Width of view 6mm....
Pale coloured pyromorphite that has formed in fractures in galena. The galena has subsequently disappeared. The pyromorphite could be grading into phosphohedyphane. Look closely, and you can also see a blade or two of cerussite....
Thick white tabular hexagonal crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue needles are schmiederite, the tabular blue crystals are chenite. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless harmotome crystals with brown calcite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm.
Aggregate of white thin bladed crystals of thomsonite with thin plates of epidote. The garnet is labelled as grossular but is very dark, and could have a significant andradite component. First photo: Width of view...
Colourless aggregate of epistilbite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Harry Critchley. Width of view 21mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Chrysocolla after veszelyite. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998.
Prismatic colourless apophyllite crystals with pinkish chabazite and colourless bladed thomsonite. The latter fluoresces strong white. Width 18mm. Stack of 180 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
White hexagonal calcite crystals that fluoresce pink, green epidote and orange-brown grossular garnet. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 2001.
Labelled as Paratacamite, Richard Bell
Dark copper coloured micro scales of the rare carbonate mineral, pyroaurite on serpentine. Specimen 70x35x25mm.
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Harry Critchley.
Elongated crystals. Other species present.
Pale green creaseyite crystals.
Blocky pale blue crystals.
Green and yellow/orange pyromorphite.
Colourless/white micaceous crystals.
Albert & Marianne Schrander-Hettinga 1/06
Albert & Marianne Schrander-Hettinga 1/06
Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005
Bernie & Margaret Day Collection. Rock-site.co.uk, now Steetley Minerals – Peter Briscoe
Photo width about 2.5mm. Tiny andradite crystals around the base of a prehnite group.
