20027 Quartz, Mt Read, Williamsford, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Cluster of colourless quartz crystals.
Cluster of colourless quartz crystals.
Small amount of gold in quartz. See arrow.
Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection #1219, labelled as Sylvester Mine. As per Mindat, relabelled from hinsdalite to plumbogummite.
Tiny anatase crystals (arrowed) on quartz with hematite inclusions.
Two greenish opaque quartz crystals joined together. Not smooth faces.
Brown ball on quartz matrix. Minor pyrite present. Ex Elena van Schriver.
Blue and green sapphires, some with good crystal form.
Two specimens of pale blue barite. Interestingly, almost all of the photos on Mindat are yellowish crystals. Fluorescent white.
Greenish-black fragment of a crystal 5mm wide. Acquired from CK Minerals at the 2019 Nunawading Show.
20g L5 chondrite meteorite. Found in 2000 but not from an observed fall. From the Meteoritical Society: Date: 16 Mar 2000 Latitude: 20°31.0’N Longitude: 56°40.0’E Mass (g): 408 kg Pieces: 1000’s Class: L4/5 Shock stage:...
Ex Milton Lavers collection. Exhibited at the Munich Show in 2008. Measures 65x65x35mm.
Cream flattened calcite crystals on tapering quartz crystals.
Cluster of colorless-white quartz crystals. Collected by Tim Greenland in Spring, 1968.
Herkimer-like quartz crystals on matrix. Ex Milton Lavers Collection No. C38.
Cluster of smoky quartz crystals on a feldspar base. Labelled as Santa lucia de Tallano.
Fibrous to prismatic purple crystals. 65x40x20mm. Closeup photo is 6.5mm wide.
Lustrous deep red crystals on one face. Specimen measures 87x40x23mm. Closeup photo is 14mm across.
Gemmy rich emerald-green fluorite octahedrons, to 15mm on edge, cover the matrix plate 75x70x25mm. This colourful two-generation fluorite is from a small 2016 find near Yiwu City, a very obscure locality in Zhejiang Province, China....
Lustrous purple “Grape Agate” with colourless-white calcite crystals, 60mm wide. From Joe George, aka The Scepter Guy, cascadescepters.com.
Interesting cluster of amethyst crystals, 35mm tall.
Stalactite of black crystals of sphalerite with a quartz crystal and minor pyrite on a few sphalerite crystal terminations, 58mm wide.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Pale green octahedral fluorite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Drusy quartz over azurite. Width of view 2mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unusual azurite with the appearance of white edges. Width of view 2mm. Stack of 53 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Pat Sutton at the Bendigo Show.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from John Haupt who collected it in 1971.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Harry Critchley. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 6 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond at the 2001 Wagga Gemboree from a tailgater.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Graham Lee.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from the late Val Hannah.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Type Locality. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $3.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 14 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from the late Frank Robinson in 1995.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 from the late Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 from Nick Carruth. Photo width 11mm.
Ferrian variscite from the Ashley Watt Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree in 1994.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from H. Allen Mitchell of Iowa.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee. Monochrome photo.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee. Monochrome photo.
Ex Bernie Day specimen. As labelled. Suspect that it is more likely a Phillip Island specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 7mm. Stack 0f 11 images.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired in 2001 by Joan Lamond from George Lysiuk (collected in 1986).
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 2001.
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