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....
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...
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.
