5832 Gold, Sebastopol, City of Ballarat, Victoria
A hackly piece of gold in quartz. From the Yarrowee River. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 26 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW202 Junoite, 700 Level, Juno Mine, Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory
From the 700 Level. Type Locality. Metallic light grey patches of junoite in bismuthinite(?) matrix. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
4053 Joséite, Whipstick Mine, Wyndham, Auckland Co., New South Wales
Silver lamellar mass without matrix. Ex Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3015 Johannsenite, Spessartine, Galena, North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Dark crystals on galena with a couple of spessartine garnets. Measures 21mm wide. Ex Jo Price Collection.
0820 Hedenbergite, Bustamite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Probably Mn-rich hedenbergite. Green crystals with pink to brown bustamite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1052 Priderite, Jeppeite, Walgidee Hills, Noonkanbah Station, Derby-West Kimberley Shire, Western Australia
Black jeppeite with brown resinous priderite in a matrix containing celadonite. Type Locality for both jeppeite and priderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below...
2210 Jarosite, King Hill gold mine, Cygnet district, Huon-Channel region, Huon Valley municipality, Tasmania
Yellow crystalline material from within a quartz vein. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP449 Jarosite, Old Boolcoomata Station, Olary Province, South Australia
Brown crystals in a cavity. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 10 and 70 images. Matrix in one small area shows a dull green fluorescence under shortwave UV. Ex Jo Price Collection. Click on the...
ncat WD201 Jarosite, Quartz, New Luxemburg Mine, Radium Hill area, Olary Province, South Australia
Brown crystals in cavities in quartz. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat MAR03 493 Jarosite, Gypsum, Goethite, Arno Bay Mine (Windittie Mine), Cleve, District Council of Cleve, South Australia
Yellow crystalline aggregates of jarosite with minor colourless gypsum crystals on a goethite matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2000 Jarosite, Mount Brockman, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia
Yellow, orange and brown jarosite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0452 Muscovite, Cordierite, Indialite, Daimonjiyama, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu Island, Japan
Acquired by Jake Slago from Alfredo Petrov at the 2013 Tucson Show. Rocks and Minerals magazine Jul-Aug 2006: The third sentence in this nine page article reads: As with the real blossoms, these stones, known...
4470 Jarosite, Goethite, Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Tiny orange-brown jarosite crystals on botryoidal iridescent goethite. Ex John Carey. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1993 Jarosite, Gahnite, Southern Cross Mine, Northern Broken Hill Block, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Tiny brown crystals of jarosite with bluish-green gahnite, and unknown pale yellow, in quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat WD203 Jahnsite-(CaFeMg), Tom’s Quarry, Koonunga, Light Regional Council, South Australia 3mm 30 2k
Type Locality. Reddish brown aggregates. Ex Vince Peisley. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3632 Jahnsite-(CaFeMg), Natrodufrénite, Tom’s Phosphate quarry, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Orange crystals of jahnsite with black natrodufrenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2042 Jacobsite, Iron Monarch, Iron Knob, South Australia
Lustrous jacobsite modified octahedrons. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VH365 Jacobsite, Iron Monarch Mine, Iron Knob, South Australia
Jacobsite crystals on typical hematite matrix. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VH364 Jacobsite, Iron Monarch Mine, Iron Knob, South Australia
Black modified octahedral crystals. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3042 RI Jacobsite, Zinc Corp Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Jacobsite grains with mixed sulphides. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection. 45mm wide.
ncat JP3052 Ixiolite, Londonderry Li deposit (Londonderry Feldspar Quarry; Fraser’s Find; Frazer’s Find; Scahill’s Quarry), Nepean, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
Black massive ixiolite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5239 Isoclasite, Fluorapatite, South Point, Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island
Isoclasite intermixed with fluorapatite. Ex Gunnar Farber. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Christmas Island phosphate minerals reference.
ncat JP2-24-2 Ishikawaite, Titanite, Mount Painter No. 2 workings, Mt Painter area, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Black opaque and brown resinous mineral with possible samarskite, and a small amount of fluorescent autunite? A titanite crystal is embedded in the matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the...
3385 Kamacite (in meteorite), Taenite, Troilite, Lawrencite, Henbury, Northern Territory
A piece of the Henbury meteorite measuring 28x25x18mm.
ncat MARXX Iriginite, Ben Lomond Mine, Charters Towers Region, Queensland
Fibrous yellow sprays. Also present is a bright yellow fluorescent mineral, possibly autunite. Ex Frank Radke. Ex Sue Koepke collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a...
ncat OW403 Osmiridium, Iridium, Osmium, Bald Hill osmiridium field, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Osmiridium grains. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD105 “Osmiridium”, Osmium, Iridium, Chromite, Adamsfield, Derwent Valley municipality, Tasmania
Rounded grains of osmiridium with sharp black crystals of chromite collected by Rusty Morley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
6087 Osmium, Iridium, Fifield, Kennedy Co., New South Wales
Labelled as osmiridium (now determined to be iridium, as silver grains with hexagonal plates (which are most likely osmium)). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Width of view 6mm. Stack of...
ncat FEB01 Iowaite, Pentlandite, Woodallite, Stage D Pit, Mount Keith Mine, Western Australia
Lamellar vein in lizardite with metallic pentlandite and purple woodallite blebs. Ex Ben Grguric. Specimen measures 55x47x30mm.
ncat VHD11 Woodallite, Iowaite, Pyroaurite, Mount Keith Open Cut, Mount Keith, Western Australia
Purple woodallite. A vein of iowaite altering to pale pyroaurite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images.
ncat AU006 Iodargyrite, Chlorargyrite, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Yellow-green bromium chlorargyrite (“embolite”) on white “snail trail” iodargyrite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0060 Iodargyrite, Kintore Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Pale-coloured crystals, some clearly showing hexagonal habit. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2174 Inesite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
A single 6mm long pinkish-brown transparent crystal without matrix. Interesting “inclusions”. Towards the bottom are things that look a bit like hexagonal wire fencing that we have used in the past around vegetable gardens an...
ncat 2RG Autunite, Torbernite, Hawks Crag, Westport, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand
Pale yellow-green autunite crystals (that fluoresce strongly) with cores of blue-green torbernite. The autunite has probably grown epitaxially on the torbernite. Ex Rod Martin. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the...
ncat JR1 Metatorbernite, Lauite, Cacoxenite, Strengite, Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Neustadt an der Waldnaab District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
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.
ncat N23-1 Metatorbernite, Meta-Autunite, Chaméane Uranium Deposit, Le Vernet-Chaméane, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Opaque pale green metatorbernite with tiny yellow meta-autunite crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW106 M3670 Metatorbernite, Wheal Basset, Basset Mines, Carnkie, Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK
Opaque dull light green crystals, undoubtedly metatorbernite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OS009 Torbernite, Old Gunnislake Mine, Clitters United Mines, Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
Green platy crystals, no matrix. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
15038 D23-1 Hokkaidoite, Opal, Shikaribetsu Lake, Shikaoi (Shikaoi-Chō), Kato District, Tokachi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan
Highly fluoresent yellow inclusions of hokkaidoite in opal that fluoresces pink and and purplish blue. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki Collection. Type Locality. Specimen measures 17mm. Photo under longwave UV.
15014 D23-1 Itoigawaite, Jadeite, Oyashirazu Beach, Ōmi, Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Sliced, polished sample, showing pale blue vein of itoigawaite in jadeite matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Type Locality. Width of specimen 40mm.
15057 D23-1 Lanthanite-(Nd), Niikoba, Hizen-cho, Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture, Japan
Pale crystalline mass in matrix. Ex Chet Lemanski Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 25 images.
15020 D23-1 Hydrobiotite, Vermiculite mine, Ono-machi, Tamura District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Small, crude, subhedral crystal aggregate of hydrobiotite without matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Older material, purchased by Andrew from Excalibur Mineral Company in 1986. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the...
ncat WD217 Wairakite after Laumontite, Kurumazawa gabbro quarry, Katashina, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Wairakite is one of the rarer zeolite species. It’s typically found around hot springs and forms white dodecahedral crystals similar to analcime. In this case, the white wairakite is completely replacing the elongated, stick-like crystals...
ncat GLEE Phurcalite, Meta-torbernite, Quartz, Unknown, San Miguel prospect, Los Azules mine, Quebrada San Miguel, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
Green platy crystals of metatorbernite, yellow phurcalite (fluorescent), colourless crystals (some as sceptres), and a colourless platy crystal (left side of photo and in closeup). The latter is a similar habit to torbernite, but there...
ncat SMLN Celestite, Clay Center, Allen Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, USA
Three colours of celestite. Blue-grey main crystals with white fibrous-like outer surface, and small colourless crystals attached. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1035 Celestite, White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Allen Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, USA
Colourless crystals of celestite. Predates Stoneco (1995) so just “White Rock Quarry”. Acquired from Ian Graham in 1993. Collected by an unknown person some time before that. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 65 images....
ncat VHD4 Kernite, Western Borax Mine, Boron, Kern Co., California, USA
Probably a cleavage piece of kernite. The specimen measures 44x18x5mm.
7281 JL3356 Kurnakovite, Boron, Kern Co., California, USA
A pale brownish transparent crystal of kurnakovite with a white surface alteration to tincalconite? Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1999 from Peter Elliott. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click...
ncat JDBD JL3867 Hemimorphite, Smithsonite, Craig Rhiwarth Mine (Ochrycraig; North Llangynog), Llangynog, Powys, Wales, UK
Colourless hemimorphite crystals with scalenohedral smithsonite possibly coloured by the underlying matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Obtained by Joan in 2000 from Harry Critchley. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the...
ncat VHD7 Vesuvianite, Hashupa epidote occurrence, Hashupa alpine-type clefts, Hashupa, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
White silky “Cat’s Eye” terminations on vesuvianite crystals that are zoned yellowish-greenish, root-beer brown, and even a purplish-black. Specimen measures 28x15x14mm. Ex Brian Kosnar. Ex Rob Lavinski. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images....
7090 JL2285 Cuspidine, Vesuvianite, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Type Locality for both cuspidine and vesuvianite. Dark to olive green vesuvianite with tan cuspidine (not in photo). Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1997 as part of a Swiss collection. Width of...
ncat NHFL Vesuvianite (var. Cyprine) or Cyprine, Øvstebø, Kleppan, Sauland, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway
Cyprine was originally defined as a blue variety of vesuvianite. However, cyprine is now a recognised distinct species. Without analysis, a firm distinction can’t be made. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images.
ncat JAP4 Vesuvianite, Kobushi mine (Koubushi mine), Kawakami-mura, Minamisaku District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Dark brown crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Location in Japanese 長野県南佐久郡川上村甲武信鈜山 Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3463 Levyne, Moonen Bay, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Thick white tabular hexagonal crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD3, Erionite, Levyne, Adel, Lake Co., Oregon, USA
Silky erionite growing epitaxially on levyne. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1753 Levyne, Chabazite, Thomsonite, Gollans Bay Quarry, Lyttelton, Banks Peninsula, Christchurch City, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
Colourless hexagonal tabular plates of levyne on rounded crystalline aggregates of thomsonite (eg: bottom of photo) and chabazite (eg: top of photo). Also present is what looks like a tiny analcime crystal on one of...
ncat JP2161 Bromargyrite, Quartz, Les Montmins Mine (Ste Barbe vein), Échassières, Ébreuil, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Greenish-yellow crystal and crust on quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OS005 Demicheleite-(Br), La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Type Locality. Tiny metallic needles. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5490 Levyne, Analcime, Thomsonite-Ca, Kuniga, Nishinoshima, Oki Islands, Okinoshima, Oki District, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Colourless hexagonal crystals, as well as yellow iron-stained ones. White fibrous thomsonite, and tiny analcime crystals. Ex Peter Hall. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki. Colourless width of view 6mm, and stack of 30 images. Yellow width of...
4693 Fluorite, Sodalite, In den Dellen quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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...
5274 Schmiederite, Llechwedd Helyg Mine (Willow Bank Mine), Pen-bont Rhydybeddau, Trefeirig, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
Blue needles of schmiederite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0398 Schmiederite, Chenite, Meadowfoot Smelter slag locality, Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
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.
2632 Zircon, Biotite, Sodalite, Sanidine, In den Dellen quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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...
ncat JLMAR01 JL2378 Chalcomenite, Allophane, Krut’aite, El Dragón mine, Porco Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia
Blue chalcomenite with yellow balls of allophane on metallic krut’aite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan as part of a Swiss collection in 1997. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on...
ncat AA5 Alfredopetrovite, Ahlfeldite, Penroseite, Chalcomenite, Felsőbányaite, El Dragón mine, Porco Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia
Type Locality for alfredopetrovite. White balls with a greenish-grey tint of alfredopetrovite, minor pink Co-bearing ahlfeldite, minor light blue chalcomenite(?), minor silver penroseite, white patches of felsőbányaite, and thin colourless blades and colourless blocky crystals...
4029 Aguilarite, San Carlos Mine, La Luz, Guanajuato Municipality, Guanajuato, Mexico
Type Locality. Small crystalline specimen without matrix. Ex Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Width 2.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5496 Cadmoselite, Sphalerite, Clausthalite, Ust’ Uyok deposit, Tuva Republic, Russia
Type Locality. Grains of black cadmoselite with orange-brown sphalerite, and silvery metallic clausthalite? Width of view 6mm. Stack of 36 images. Ex Excalibur Minerals. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2358 Selenium, Schöller dump, Kladno mine, Libušin, Kladno District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
Prismatic bright silver crystals from the Schöller dump. From Mindat “A coal mine which started in 1899 as the Schoeller mine. From 1946, it was named Zdeněk Nejedlý Mine, from 1951 Nejedlý I Mine. After...
4850 Levyne-Ca, Thomsonite-Ca, Lower Karandoli Quarry, Lonavale, Pune District, Maharashtra, India
Blocky colourless crystals with rounded aggregates of thomsonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Richard Bell. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW109 Chabazite-Na, Thomsonite-Ca, Phillipsite-Na, Ilmenite, Bundoora, Victoria
A lot going on with this specimen. Silver thin ilmenite plates formed first and were then coated with phillipsite-Na and chabazite-Na crystals. You can see the ilmenite where there are broken areas. Then later, a...
2777 Ilmenite, Lake Bullen Merri (Bullenmerri), Camperdown, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
Glossy black pieces of ilmenite collected by Judy Rowe from beach sands on the shore of Lake Bullenmerri. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat NOVM Calcite, Augite, Ilmenite, Apatite, Portland Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Sir William Grant, Portland, Glenelg Shire, Victoria
Partially clay encrusted ilmenite with augite and fluorescent calcite. There is a bunch of apatite needles on the top right corner of the ilmenite. Ex Margaret Brown. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images....
ncat AU001 Hyalite Opal, Ilmenite, Augite, Hedenbergite, Andesine, Alfredton, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Four pieces. Photo shows ilmenite on augite. Also present andesine and hedenbergite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images.
0131 Ilmenite, Sanidine, Spring Hill, Macedon Ranges, Victoria
A sharp ilmenite crystal in a cavity lined with sanidine crystals. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 14 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD3 Stilbite-Ca, Ilmenite, Titanite, Actinolite, Arkaroola Bore, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station), North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Small green titanite with darker green actinolite and black ilmenite of orange stilbite-Ca. Specimen measures 39x30x14mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0118 Ilmenite, Quartz, Mt Gee, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station), North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Thick platy crystals of ilmenite with interesting surface features, and a couple of quartz crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JLMAR02 JL399 Zircon, Ilmenite, Quartz, Byron Bay, Rous Co., New South Wales
Rounded zircons, mostly orange, but also pale pink, with black ilmenite, and a few colourless quartz crystals, from sands at Byron Bay. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Collected by Joan in 1968. Width of view 6mm....
1763 Ilmenite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Black mass of crystalline material embedded in matrix. Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR8 Pseudobrookite, Chabazite-Ca, Aranga Quarry (Stone’s Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara District, Northland Region, New Zealand
A red prismatic pseudobrookite embedded in chabazite. Ex Margaret Graham. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR2 G0W-NPG Magnetite, Chlorite, Siderite, Chabazite-Na, Orthoclase, Apatite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Black magnetite octahedra, some with traces of chlorite on their faces. Some magnetite crystals are completely encased in chlorite. Blocky orthoclase crystals form part of the cavity lining. Brown sheaf or club-shaped siderite, yellow hexagonal...
ncat JR10 Phillipsite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Two pieces. Colourless twinned phillipsite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0468 Siderite, Chabazite-Na, Chlorite, Apatite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Rhombohedral siderite (after calcite?), chabazite-Na (herschelite), and a needle of apatite with orange chlorite grown on it (in front of siderite). Width of view 3mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for...
ncat JP1597 Chabazite-Na, Siderite, Magnetite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Octahedral magnetite crystals with yellowish chabazite and dark brown siderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0335 Barite, Siderite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
White zoned barite with dark brown siderite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 31 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR8 Barite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Thin white bladed stacked crystals. Ex Trevor Hosking, collected in 1995. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR8 EYG-CXD Chabazite-Na, Apatite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Chabazite-Na and an apatite needle in a vugh in andesite. An opalescent effect is produced by the larger crystal lying flat in the vugh with only one face exposed. The surface has a slightly matt...
ncat JR3 Siderite, Orthoclase, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Dark brown spherical siderite with colourless orthoclase lining the vugh. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR3 WQ1-09C Gypsum, Siderite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Labelled as apatite but I think the long prismatic crystal is gypsum. The termination is wrong for apatite. There is greenish-brown chlorite and a brown siderite with a hollow core, left hand side of the...
ncat JR3 EA4-HAK Chabazite-Na, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Pale yellow hexagonal chabazite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. The second photo was taken by Judy Rowe and uploaded to Mindat in 2009. It would have been a single shot, not...
ncat JR3 Chabazite-Na, Orthoclase, Siderite, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Yellow and colourless hexagonal chabazite crystals with minor colourless orthoclase and brown siderite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0601 Analcime, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Three colourless analcime crystals isolated the rest, with smaller rounded brown siderites, and one chabazite crystal. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1272 Gypsum, Chabazite-Na (Herschelite), Bicker’s Quarry, Dargaville, North Island, New Zealand
A colourless gypsum crystal with white hexagonal chabazite. Unsure what the hollowed out crystal is/was (bottom left of photo). The yellow needles are possibly iron-stained or replaced apatite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50...
1273 Analcime, Bickers Quarry (Simpkins Quarry), Tokatoka, Kaipara District, Northland Region, North Island, New Zealand
Unidentified white mineral (possibly thomsonite?) in analcime. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4082 VHD2 Botallackite, Levant Mine, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Elongated green platy crystals. Ex Andrew Tuma. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat MAR02 M3454 Botallackite, Connellite, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Fine acicular connellite with platy green botallackite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1130 Crocoite, Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
A jumble of intense red mostly terminated crocoite crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP169 Erythrite, Silberberg, Geyer – Silberberg District, Brixlegg, Kufstein District, Tyrol, Austria
A radiating cluster of purplish-red erythrite crystals. Collected in 1987. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JSM Claudetite, Sulphur, Saxonia dump slag locality, Freiberg smelter, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
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.
ncat OW301 Karibibite, Scorodite, Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Spheres of yellow to orange acicular karibibite crystals with small colourless to green scorodite crystals in gossan matrix. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat OW403 Arsenopyrite, Yaogangxian, Hunan Province, China
A single well-formed arsenopyrite crystal on matrix. Specimen measures 55x30x25mm.
ncat AA8 446 Arsenolamprite, Glasberg quarry, Nieder-Beerbach, Mühltal, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
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.
ncat JR2 Arsenic, New England arsenic, Clive, Clive Co., New South Wales
A crystalline mass of native arsenic showing some individual trigonal crystals. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1302 Botallackite, Botallack Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
Platy green crystals. Type Locality. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 30 images. Ex Mike Gough. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR12 Hydroxylapatite, Scholzite, Reaphook Hill, Martins Well station, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Colourless rounded aggregate of hydroxylapatite with thin sword-shaped colourless scholzite crystals, and unidentified green mineral (plimerite?). Ex Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
9092 JP2758 Montgomeryite, Hydroxylapatite, Crandallite, Collinsite?, Milgun Variscite Mine (Mount Deverell), Milgun Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia
Colourless hexagonal prisms and bowties of hydroxylapatite. Monoclinic tiny thin platy crystals of colourless montgomeryite (eg: top right of photo). The larger colourless crystals are possibly collinsite. White balls of crandallite. Ex Jo Price Collection....
ncat JP886 Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Cape Grim, Cape Grim district, Circular Head municipality, Tasmania
Blocky colourless crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1662 Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Natrolite, Ardglen Quarry, Ardglen, Buckland Co., New South Wales
A single white crystal of hydroxyapophyllite, with a few colourless needles of natrolite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD213 Hydromagnesite, Nickel Reward Mine, Trial Harbour district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Colourless to white hydromagnesite crystals on serpentine. Specimen measures 90x55x45mm. Close up photo width of view 6mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW210 Dypingite, Hydromagnesite, Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
A ball of crystals of hydromagnesite with white pearly dypingite. Specimen Measures 60x40x15mm. Closeup photo width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RD Hydrokenoralstonite, Goethite, Tom’s Quarry, Kapunda, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Tiny colourless but mostly iron-stained crystals on a goethite matrix. Ex Vince Peisley. Identified for Vince by Peter Elliott. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
ncat JAP3 Nakauriite, Nakauri mine, Shinshiro city, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Blue fibrous nakauriite. This species forms as vivid fibrous blue crystals on/in brucite-bearing serpentine. Type Locality. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3098 Hydrokenoelsmoreite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Yellow crystals in a vugh in ferberite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3038 Hydrohonessite, Gaspéite, Gypsum, 132 North Ni Mine, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
Yellow aggregates of hydrohonessite on green gaspéite, some of which is coated by gypsum. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat JAP3 Mimetite, Ohbuki mine (Ofukiyama; Obukidani; Ohbukitani), Hinokage, Nishiusuki District, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan
Hexagonal olive green crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD117 Holmsquistite, Greenbushes Mine, Greenbushes Tinfield, Bridgetown-Greenbushes Shire, Western Australia
An aggregate of fibrous purple crystals. Specimen measures 42mm wide.
20127 VHD1 Holmsquistite, Greenbushes Mine, Greenbushes Tinfield, Bridgetown-Greenbushes Shire, Western Australia
Tiny purple crystals on larger black crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0634 Dachiardite-Ca, Hokiya-dake, Toyosaka, Matsushiro, Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Labelled: Mt Hokidoke, Nagono Volcano, Japan. Colourless prismatic crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OW201 Glauberite, Hydroglauberite, Lake Bumbunga, Lochiel, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
White alteration coating of hydroglauberite on glauberite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2399 VHD5 Scheelite, Calcite, Hübnerite, Aberfoyle Mine, Rossarden mining district, Northern Midlands municipality, Tasmania
A brown scheelite crystal with white calcite on silvery black hübnerite. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD3 K362 Barytocalcite, Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Bladed tan barytocalcite coated with sugary white crystals. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Specimen measures 44x25x18mm.
5426 Barytocalcite, Rorrington Mine, Chirbury with Brompton, Shropshire, England, UK
Colourless crystals of barytocalcite. Ex Richard Bell. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 5 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3883 Barytocalcite, Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Presteigne, Powys, Wales
Aggregates of bladed crystals with a slight brownish tinge. Ex Tom Cottrell. 2/2005. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD205 M3626 Marshite, Aurichalcite, Smithsonite, Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
A very rich specimen of tan coloured marshite that fluoresces bright red, with pale blue aurichalcite and green smithsonite. Ex Peter Hall. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 110 images (white...
5586 Schrockingerite, Rabbittite, Hideout Mine (Hideout No. 1 Mine), Deer Flat, White Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA
White acicular rabbittite with green platy aggregates of schröckingerite that is highly fluorescent. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5594 Johannite, Chalcanthite, Hideout Mine (Hideout No. 1 Mine), Deer Flat, White Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA
Yellow johannite on green unknown (more crystalline and bright fluorescence), and blue chalcanthite. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5589 Bayleyite, Calcite, Gypsum, Hideout Mine (Hideout No. 1 Mine), Deer Flat, White Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA
Tiny creamy-white radial sprays of bayleyite with calcite, gypsum, and unidentified copper and uranium species. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
5590 Bayleyite, Almandine, Hideout Mine (Hideout No. 1 Mine), Deer Flat, White Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA
Ex Al Wilkins. Labelled simply bayleyite but I can’t find any distinct material. Some of the matrix is made up of garnet crystals, the garnet from here being almandine. So I can put that on...
2413 Renierite, Germanite, Chalcopyrite, 2390′ Level, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto, Namibia
From the 2390 ft level. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
8506 Conichalcite, Germanite, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
Zoned green crystals of conichalcite as “V”-shaped crystals in germanite. Type Locality for germanite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat PA24 Gold, Winnecke Goldfield, Georgina Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory
A small patch of gold on quartz matrix. Ex Don McColl. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat PA24 Carminite, Beudantite-Segnitite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Yellow scalenohedral crystal groups of beudantite-segnitite, with dark red carminite needles. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat PA24 Calcite, Chabazite, Phillipsite, Ben Lomond, Hardinge Co., New South Wales
A group of calcite crystals on a calcite ball in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Bluish-white fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 34 images...
2029 Diamond, Miba Mine, Mbuji-Mayi, Kasaï-Oriental, DR Congo
Greenish yellow interpenetrant cube twin with interesting surface features. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat PA24 Calcite, Chabazite, Phillipsite, Ben Lomond, Hardinge Co., New South Wales
A group of dark calcite crystals that show zoning under longwave ultraviolet light in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 56 images (whitelight),...
ncat PA24 Calcite, Chabazite, Phillipsite, Ben Lomond, Hardinge Co., New South Wales
A steeply-terminated calcite crystal with a dark core in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. The main calcite crystal fluoresces orange under longwave ultraviolet light. A second partial brown calcite fluoresces bright white....
7085 JL0860 Synthetic Diamond
Synthetic diamonds. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images.
ncat WD109 Hollandite, Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Dark brown hemispheres of hollandite. In front of the hollandite are corroded hollowed out hedyphane crystals. Ex Jack and Dawn Leach Collection. Ex Gordon Jackson Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click...
7348 JL3149 Tarbuttite, Beudantite, Hinsdalite, Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Cuprian tarbuttite with green beudantite and green coatings and crystals of hinsdalite.. Collected by Joan Lamond in 1999 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click...
4338 JL3150 Scholzite, Corkite-Hinsdalite, Pyromorphite, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Green corkite-hinsdalite on colourless pyromorphite with white scholzite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Collected by Joan on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip in 1991. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images....
1205 JL3823 Hillite, Collinsite, Scholzite, Plimerite, Reaphook Hill, Martins Well, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Tiny pale hillite crystals on scholzite with purplish hemispheres of collinsite. Tiny green balls of plimerite are also present. Type Locality for hillite. Ex Joan Lamond specimen 3823. Joan acquired it from a Whyalla tailgater...
0363 Hidalgoite after Mimetite, Kintore Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Olive-green micro crystals of hidalgoite on/after mimetite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1487 Cerussite, Grand Reef Mine, Laurel Canyon, Grand Reef Mountain, Klondyke, Aravaipa Mining District, Graham County, Arizona, USA
Reticulated sixling cerussite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0497 Azurite, Cerussite, Smithsonite(?), Chihuahua, Mexico
Reticulated partial sixling white cerussite with dark blue azurite. A small amount of bubbly smithsonite(?) also present on the azurite just below left of centre. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on...
0445 Cerussite, Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Pale greenish-yellow cerussite crystals showing signs of reticulated twinning. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0360 Söhngeite, Gallite, Germanite, Tennantite, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Pale yellow rhombohedral söhngeite crystals in gallite-germanite-tennantite matrix. Type locality for söhngeite and germanite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 44 images. Second image (separate specimen) includes a tiny green crystal towards the top, perhaps...
2133 Erythrite, Heterogenite, Mansfieldite, Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Pink acicular sprays of erythrite and minor pale purple mansfieldite on black heterogenite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0954 Heterogenite, Mansfieldite (Cobaltian), Smolyaninovite after Erythrite, Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Black heterogenite coated by crystalline mansfieldite (coloured pink by cobalt). Pink erythrite (not in photo) and minor yellow smolyaninovite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
5122 Hetaerolite, Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Lustrous black horizontally striated crystals with steep terminations. Analysed by Peter Elliott. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4985 Fornacite, Wulfenite, Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Olive-green fornacite with orange-red wulfenite. Ex Al Wilkins. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3245 Perite, Hemimorphite, Chlorargyrite, Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Yellow scales of perite with a radiating group of colourless hemimorphite crystals. Olive green crystal of chlorargyrite not in photo. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the...
ncat GLEE Hentschelite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Black hemispheres of henschelite. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2814 Calcite, Barite, Heulandite, Red Bluff, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Red-fluorescing calcite crystals with minor heulandite (pictured) and barite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat BDMAR01 M1423-3 Heulandite, Overburden Dump, Mary Kathleen Mine, Mary Kathleen district, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Colourless and amber-coloured crystals of heulandite. The latter presumably through colour transmitted from the matrix? Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
0648 Heulandite, Garrawilla Station, Pottinger Co., New South Wales
A cavity lined with heulandite crystals ranging in colour from yellow-orange through to orange-red. Some crystals have colourless zones. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
nct JR4 Micrometeorites, Zircon, Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
A selection of some of a lot of 29 micrometeorites hand sorted by the late Judy Rowe from alluvial concentrates. Judy hand sorted anatase, zircon, maghemite, and other minerals. One of the micrometeorites (just above...
ncat JP1954 Anglesite, Coldstones Quarry, Greenhow, High and Low Bishopside, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK
A single larger crystal and smaller drusy crystals of anglesite, altered from galena. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1946 Harmotome, Calcite, Whitesmith Mine, Strontian, Highland, Scotland, UK
Colourless harmotome crystals with brown calcite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm.
ncat JP1550 Millerite, Margam Opencast Mine, Cefn Cribwr, Bridgend, Wales, UK
Flat-lying needles of metallic millerite. This specimen was collected prior to Park Slip West beginning operations. So technically, it should not be labelled as such. It should simply be Margam Opencast Mine. Ex Jo Price...
ncat JP2605 Andradite, Ural Mountains, Russia
Partially polished crystal of green andradite (Demantoid) showing horsetail inclusions. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 34 images.
ncat JP3077 Anatase, Poudrette quarry , Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of 4.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2311 Garnet Group, Epidote, Thomsonite-Ca, Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
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...
ncat JP2297 Fluorite, Crich Quarry (Crich Cliff Quarry), Crich, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK
The faint brownish to colour at the centre of the fluorite explodes like a supernova when hit with a UV torch! It also has inclusions, possibly pyrite or some other sulphide. But it is the...
8073 M1819 Iowaite, Chondrodite, Calcite, Magnetite, Palabora mine, Loolekop, Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Green iowaite with orange to brown chondrodite on colourless calcite. Minor black magnetite also present. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view calcite 3mm, stack of 35 images. Width of view iowaite 6mm,...
ncat JP1867 Magnetite, Calcite, Unidentified Green Mineral, Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Labelled as hausmannite, but misidentified magnetite. Also labelled as muscovite, but the green crystal could be iowaite, clinochlore, phlogopite or muscovite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on...
ncat JP3742 Willemite, Calcite, Mottramite, Cuprite, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
This micro specimen came from the Jo Price Collection. Jo had acquired it from the late Jack Nelson. It is an old specimen simply labelled as mimetite, Tsumeb, SWA. The yellow-zoned “mimetite” crystals look odd...
7145 JL2169 Offretite, Schrimpf basalt works, Herbstein, Vogelsberg, Hesse, Germany
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.
ncat JP2137 Epistilbite, Sgurr nam Boc, Glen Brittle, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK
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.
0371 Epistilbite, Scolecite, Kailua, Oahu Island, Honolulu Co., Hawaii, USA
Typical epistilbite habit on crystals in one cavity, with smaller crystals associated with prismatic scolecite (not in photo) in another. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a...
0334 Vesuvianite, Diopside, Jeffrey Mine (Jeffrey Quarry; Johns-Manville Mine), Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
A small specimen of manganoan vesuvianite crystals with transparent diopsides. The perfectly terminated vesuvianites have varying colour from intense purple to very pleasing apple yellow-green and some gemmy areas. With exemplary lustre and good light...
2758 Haiweeite, Los Azules mine, Quebrada San Miguel, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
Simply labelled Azul Mine. Yellow puffballs and acicular groups.
ncat JR6 Calcite, Moeraki Point, Otago Region, New Zealand
Pink fluorescing scalenohedral calcite crystals. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR6 Natrolite, Phillipsite-K, Calcite, Chabazite-Ca, Blackhead Quarry, Dunedin City, Otago Region, New Zealand
A bed of natrolite needles on phillipsite with a few small calcite crystals. There are a couple of even smaller highly lustrous chabazite crystals perched on natrolite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 135 images....
ncat JR2 Anatase, Alluvial gold mine, Carapooee, Northern Grampians Shire, Victoria
A selection of dull greyish-blue anatase crystals from Carapooee, showing the common dipyramidal forms. There is some abrasion and iron-staining. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a...
ncat JR9 Analcime, Natrolite, Pahau River, Culverden, Hurunui District, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
Prismatic natrolite on analcime crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR10 Phillipsite-K, Erionite-K, Nontronite, Moeraki Point, Otago Region, New Zealand
Crystal clear twinned phillipsite showing the interesting nontronite background. A couple of long thin erionite crystals also present. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat JR8 Chabazite-Ca, Thomsonite-Ca, Blackhead Quarry, Dunedin City, Otago Region, New Zealand
An arch comprised of mostly chabazite crystals with a small amount of bladed thomsonite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1891 Manandonite, Antandrokomby pegmatite, Manandona Valley, Sahatsiho Ambohimanjaka, Ambositra, Amoron’i Mania, Madagascar
Spherical aggregates of grey pseudohexagonal tabular manandonite crystals in a cavity in matrix. Type Locality. Ex Richard Bell Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
ncat JP3178 Thomsonite-Ca, Natrolite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
Natrolite prisms growing from the base of bladed thomsonite. At first, I thought that the natrolite terminations were coated in hyalite opal, with that typical blobby look. But when you look down on the terminations,...
ncat JP3354 Hematite after Pyrite, Mount Goldsworthy (Shay Gap), East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia
Not sure of the chemistry here, but it appears to be pyrite altered to goethite, then partially altering to hematite. Or possibly the other way round. All with a bit of relict quartz. Ex Jo...
ncat WD202 Hedyphane, Calcite, Austinite, Beltana Mine (E.Z. Mine), Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
White hexagonal hedyphane crystals that fluoresces orange, with yellow-green prismatic austinite crystals. Minor calcite, more evident in the UV photo. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images (white light) and 16 images (UV). Click...
ncat LSIM Hausmannite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Pseudo-octahedral grey crystals of hausmannite. Ex Leon Schmidt. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat MAR03 Hausmannite, Calcite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Bladed hausmannite looking like hematite with brown calcite. Ex Barry Schubert Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2923 UA Alabandite, Hausmannite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Grungy brown coating of hausmannite over alabandite. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Older photo…
ncat VHD15, Calcite, Fluorite, Hastingsite, Magnetite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania
Dark green to black hastingsite with purple fluorite and calcite that fluoresces orange. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD217 Hardystonite, Sphalerite, Cerussite, plus ?, Tasmanian Smelter, Zeehan, Tasmania
Three pieces. Photo shows red-violet hardystonite(?), orange-red sphalerite, greenish-yellow smithsonite(?) and unknown bluish-white mineral. Longwave ultraviolet light. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 22 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD104 Witherite, Harmotome, Sphalerite, Galena, Rosebery Mine (EZ Mine), Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Twinned harmotome, including “drill bit” habit. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1404 Anatase, Val Maighels, Tujetsch, Surselva Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Sharp bluish anatase crystals. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AA8 35 Tinzenite, Parsettensite, Falotta, Tinizong (Tinzen), Surses, Albula Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Yellow-orange tinzenite with minor red parsettensite (not in photo) and black manganese oxides. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 34 photos. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1025 Beryl (Emerald), No location (man-made)
Eight magnificent micro synthetic emerald cyrstals of 1 to 2 mm are mounted on a round white apparently plastic disk that’s affixed to a round cork pedestal. The pedestal extends from the bottom of a...
ncat NHFL M531 Beryl, Ruby Violet claims (Wah Wah Mountains), Beaver County, Utah, USA
Red Beryl. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 24 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7360 JL3494 Enargite, Chinkuashih Mine, Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria. Stack of 24 images.. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1162 Andradite, Montenero Quarry, Onano, Latera volcano, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy
Lustrous black melanite variety of garnet. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2-24-2 A2127 Cuprite, Connellite, Brochantite, Marshite, Smithsonite, Calcite, Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
An aesthetic and really interesting specimen. Four well-formed cuprite crystals with tiny green brochantite crystals and blue connellite puffballs, sitting on a bed of white smithsonite stained by goethite. Then under longwave UV, you can...
1493 Hannayite, Skipton Caves, Mt. Widderin, Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria
Tiny tan crystals from the Type Locality. Width of view 7.25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2-24-1 A3277 Halotrichite, Botryogen, Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa, City of Mount Isa, Queensland
Fibrous white halotrichite with orange-red botryogen. The small yellow areas are possibly melanterite, or another sulphate. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a...
2467 Halotrichite, Melanterite, The Springs, Wellington Park, Hobart city, Tasmania
An efflorescence in a gel capsule. White halotrichite and pale yellow melanterite. Identified by Ralph Bottrill. Width of view 7.25mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat SA9 Atacamite, Halloysite, Cattle Grid deposit, Mount Gunson Copper mines, Pernatty Lagoon, South Australia
Tiny white areas of halloysite on dark green atacamite. Ex Mal Annells Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2577 Wulfenite, Fornacite, Pyromorphite, Halloysite, Whim Creek Copper Mine (Whim Creek Copper prospect; Whim Well Mine), Whim Creek, Roebourne Shire, Western Australia
Thin orange plates of wulfenite with yellow-green rounded pyromorphite, and tiny sharp olive-green fornacite crystals on bluish-white halloysite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below...
ncat JR6 Halite, Pink Lake, Meningie, Murray Riverlands, Murray Basin, South Australia
A close up photo of the specimen Judy Rowe uploaded to Mindat in 2014 (https://www.mindat.org/photo-615149.html). The pink colour has disappeared. That is because it is caused by a bacteria, and that bacteria has gone on...
ncat JP3160 Halite, Eastern Beach, Lorne, Surf Coast Shire, Victoria
Colourless hoppered halite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU003 Halite, Pink Lake, Dimboola, Hindmarsh Shire, Victoria
White (was very pale pink) partially dissolved halite, highly fluorescent white. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7229 JL1259 Halite, Gypsum, Pernatty Lagoon, Stuart Shelf, South Australia
Better-known for its green gypsum, this locality also occasionally produces little surprises like this one. Halite cubes perched on the termination of a gypsum crystal. Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Height of view 9.7mm. Stack...
ncat JP700 Halite, Lake Torrens, Andamooka Ranges, Stuart Shelf, South Australia
A cluster of colourless to white cubes. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2122 Halite, Treasure Beach, Clarence City, Tasmania
Crude cubes of halite found on the protected underside of a piece of broken crockery at a location known as “Treasure Beach”. Here, broken crockery and glass had been dumped in the early days of...
0058 Halite, Marion Lake, Stenhouse Bay, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Colourless cubes with a slightly melted look. Width of view 14.4mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR4 Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning Mines, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa
A single lustrous red scalenohedral rhodochrosite crystal. Height of view 14.5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat OS009 Eosphorite, Zanazziite(?), Ilha claim, Taquaral, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
A spray of orange eosphorite covered by green zanazziite(?). The second photo shows a broken surface where you can see the original eosphorite. Is this then coated by zanazziite giving it a green colour, then...
ncat JP3133 Eosphorite, Roscherite Group, Pyrite, Ilha claim, Taquaral, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Orange prismatic eosphorite crystals. Green crystal aggregates possibly (probably?) zanazziite not roscherite as labelled. Small pyrite crystals also present. Unidentified colourless-white crystal clusters probably albite? Ex Jo Price Collection. Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Width of...
4511 Nimite, Népouite, Bon Accord Ni deposit, Barberton, Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Nimite (Type Locality) is a chlorite group mineral (yellowish-green but can be stained by iron oxides), whilst népouite (bluish-green) is a serpentine group mineral. Ex Jim Ferraiolo. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images....
20064 Falcondoite, Falcondo Mines, Bonao, Monseñor Nouel Province, Dominican Republic
Bluish-green massive falcondoite. Specimen is 30x25x25mm. Type Locality. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3539 Ancylite-(Ce), Albite, Aegirine, Burbankite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Colourless to greyish, and pinky-orange crystals of ancylite-(Ce), or possibly calcioancylite in small cavities in albite. In the second photo, white (probable) calcioburbankite (Type Locality). You can see the hexagonal cross section if you look...
ncat MAR01 M3239 Cinnabar, Calcite, Smithsonite, Hemimorphite, Coldstones Quarry, Greenhow, High and Low Bishopside, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Red to orange cinnabar on smithsonite with a few bladed crystals of hemimorphite. These minerals all on calcite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below...
ncat NHFL Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Hellyer Mine, Hellyer-Que River Mines, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
A classic and really cute example of epitaxy. Chalcopyrite epitaxial on a sphalerite crystal. And to add to the cuteness, there are some tiny tetrahedrite crystals bottom left of photo. Width of view 6mm. Stack...
ncat CC Fluorapatite, Andradite, Diopside, Allanite-(Ce), Mary Kathleen Mine, Mary Kathleen district, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Colourless, pale blue and pale green fluorapatite. Dark brownish-red andradite. Dark green diopside. Brownish black allanite-(Ce), variety bagrationite. Ex Costas Constantinides. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
30019 WD215 Albite, Orthoclase, Smoky Quartz, Muscovite, Glenrowan, Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria
White albite growing epitaxially on orange orthoclase with smoky quartz. Width of view 6mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2961 Copper (Formed in Saturated Wood), 2,000 year old Roman Copper Mine, Cyprus
Native copper porphyroblasts in saturated wood from an ancient mine. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 34 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR3 Benitoite, Neptunite, California State Gem Mine, Santa Rita Peak, San Benito County, California, USA
Two joined benitoite crystals (I hesitate to say twinned as I don’t know what sorts of twins can occur), shown in normal, longwave ultraviolet (red), and shortwave ultraviolet (blue). It is really interesting how different...
1709 Benitoite, California State Gem Mine, Santa Rita Peak, San Benito County, California, USA
Dark blue benitoite, shown in white light, under longwave UV with a red fluorescence, and shortwave UV with a blue fluorescence. Width of view 12mm. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU004 Gypsum, Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Tiny sprays of post-mining gypsum crystals collected on the dumps. Look closely and you can some fishtail twins (eg: near the centre of the photo). Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on...
9117 JP2648 Gypsum, Lake Cowan, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
Prismatic colourless crystals of gypsum. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2161 Gypsum, Wilson, City of Canning, Western Australia
Interpenetrant gypsum crystals. Collected during roadworks. Largest crystal is 27mm long. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AA G2/18 Gypsum, Mount Perry, North Burnett Region, Queensland
Gypsum crystals on secondary copper mineral (chrysocolla?). Ex Lesley and Doug Ball Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD111 C27 Newport Waterways (canal estate), Scarborough, Redcliffe Peninsula, Queensland
A brownish-grey gypsum rose with a white UV reaction. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Margaret purchased this specimen in 1983 in Broken Hill. Labelled simply Maryborough, Queensland. There is some doubt that it may not be...
2175 Gypsum, Halls Peak, Sandon Co., New South Wales
Colourless gypsum crystals with a white granular coating. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat MLE Gyrolite, Phillipsite, Tacharanite, Coates pit, Campbell Range, Oonah, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania
Cream ball of gyrolite with white tacharanite on colourless phillipsite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JR2 Grossular, Jervois Mine, Jervois Range, Jervois Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory
Elongated orange-brown grossular garnet. Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AA2 Grossular, Ethiudna Cobalt Mine, The Ethiudna Mines, Mt Victor Plumbago Station, Olary Province, South Australia
Orange grossular (hessonite) garnets. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2476 Scheelite, Grossular, Kara Mine, Hampshire mining district, Burnie City, Tasmania
Tiny off-white scheelite crystals (not in photo) and pale green grossular garnets. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1531 Grossular, Grahams Quarry, Cosgrove, City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria
Olive-green crystal of grossular garnet. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3012 VHD6 Grossular, Wollastonite, Vesuvianite, Mt Nelson quarry, Mt Nelson, Hobart City, Tasmania
Small grey-green grossular garnets with white wollastonite and yellow-orange vesuvianite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
3239 Grossular, Magnetite, Shepherd and Murphy Mine, Moina – Middlesex District, Kentish municipality, Tasmania
Olivine-green crude crystals of grossular embedded in magnetite. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7267 JL1445 Grossular, Chrysocolla, Wombat Hole prospect (Wombat Hole mine), Morass Creek gorge, Dartmouth, Towong Shire, Victoria
Brown grossular garnet with blue chrysocolla. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1602 Quartz, Grossular, Mount Garnet Mine, Mount Garnet, Tablelands Region, Queensland
Small quartz crystals on olive-green to brown grossular garnets. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1375 Grossular, Mount Lightning Adit (MLA Deposit), Coolac district, Buccleuch Co., New South Wales
Green chrome-rich grossular garnet crystals. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JLMAR01 JL1691 Hewettite, Variscite, Gold Quarry Mine, Maggie Creek Mining Subdistrict, Carlin Trend, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA
Reddish-brown fibres of hewettite with bubbly grey variscite balls and unknown lime green mineral (vésigniéite? maybe). Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a...
2698 Adamite, Hilarion Mine, Kamariza mines (Kamareza mines), Agios Konstantinos (Kamariza), Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece
Pale adamite crystal aggregates with deeper green cores of copper-bearing adamite (or zincolivenite?). Interestingly, as you move the specimen around under the microscope, the “hard dividing line” between the two colours looks like it moves!...
3514 Cobaltkoritnigite, Erythrite, Weilite, Hörnesite, Picropharmacolite, Sainfeldite, Ore dumps, Richelsdorf Smelter, Süß, Nentershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
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...
ncat JP2585 Cobaltite, Tunaberg, Nyköping, Södermanland, Sweden
Silver cobaltite crystal in matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 7.75mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat BDUK M1775 Cobaltite, Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Dark grey pseudocubic crystal embedded in matrix. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat RAM4 1295 Calcite, Pyrite, Gray Quarry, Gray, Sullivan Co., Tennessee, USA
Small pyrite crystals on calcite crystals. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 65 images. Allegedly, a dead tree once stood over this quarry with the inscription “D. Boon (Daniel Boone) Cilled...
ncat RAM4 15 1114-17 Copper, Mount Isa, Queensland
An aesthetic parallel growth of copper crystals. Ex Charles Willett Collection. Width of specimen 7mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution verion.
ncat RAM4 Calcite, Siderite, Biggenden Mine, Mount Biggenden, North Burnett Region, Queensland
Multiple generations of calcite with siderite, and some of the calcite fluoresces strongly red. One habit is white “Christmas trees”. Width of view 5.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a...
ncat VIN Wardite, Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Sunshine Mining District, Utah County, Utah, USA
Green and bluish-green wardite in yellow crandallite with white crandallite and pale pinkish crandallite. Type Locality for wardite. Vintage micromount collected and mounted by John Melhase in 1935. Ex John Malhase. Ex California Academy of...
ncat RBCJ Bournonite, Arsenopyrite, Quartz, Tolwong mines, Tolwong, St Vincent Co., New South Wales
A nice group of bournonite crystals perched on brassy arsenopyrite and dark sphalerite crystals. Quartz crystals on specimen but not in photo. Height of view 5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below...
ncat MBBD M1821-2 Rhodochrosite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Dark red spheres of rhodochrosite on white albite. Colourless crystals in the foreground and on the left may be pectolite. Minor green aegirine also present. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on...
ncat MBBD Libethenite, Ulrichite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
A single sharp green libethenite crystal with a spray of lighter green ulrichite, on a bed of green chalcosiderite crystals. Height of view 2.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a...
ncat MBBD Variscite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Tiny colourless crystalline balls of variscite. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat MBBD Torbernite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria
Platy green crystals on smoky quartz. Most are much thinner than the one in the photo. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.