Lustrous white translucent barite crystals growing on minor calcite from one of the classic old English lead mines. The barite crystals on this piece reach 1.5 cm in maximum length and fluoresce a nice cream-white...
A very nice fully crystalline specimen of light pink dolomite growing free of matrix with just superb crystallization’s growing with minor chalcopyrite and pyrite and measuring 4.5 x 2.7 x 2.4 cm in size. This...
A unique specimen composed of a single well terminated gemmy crystal of light blue aquamarine growing free of matrix and measuring 13 x 8 x 6 mm in size. The specimen comes from a quite...
Two small coarse gold in white quartz specimens
Gemmy blue crystals of barite on an off white chalky matrix from Heathcote. Collected by Jon Mommers on a Minsoc Vic field trip in the 1980s, probably 1982
A single terminated beryl variety aquamarine crystal, which was recovered from a pegmatite. The crystal has a bluish green colour and some iron staining. Described as coming from near Lake Wendouree, Ballarat during Parks works,...
Type locality. Green splinter on microscope slide. Analysed material. Analysis by Nikita Chukanov, Moscow, Russia.
A bright specimen of fluorite with stair-stepped formation. It has very nice dark orchid purple colour. The crystals are translucent with dark phantoms inside. Ex Mike Knew Collection. Mike Knew is the owner of Top...
Ex Mike Knew Collection. Mike Knew is the owner of Top Gem Minerals in Tucson, Arizona.
Bright large translucent yellow barite crystals growing on very sparkly quartz crystal matrix. Barite is uncommon at this locality. Ex Mike Knew Collection. Mike Knew is the owner of Top Gem Minerals in Tucson, Arizona.
Alluvial or deep lead nugget with minor quartz, 0.38g.
Type locality. Gatehouseite was first found at Iron Monarch in 1987. It occurs as radiating clusters of pale yellow and yellow to pale brownish orange micro crystals with barite and hematite.
Schorl inclusion in apatite, no matrix. Collected by Margaret Brown 19/3/1996
Not in Mindat. Pale yellow crystalline mass
Type locality for arisite-(Ce) which is pale pinkish thin hexagonal plates. Tuperssuatsiaite is brownish-red sprays
Type locality. Aggregate of black curved crystals
Silver aggregate. Said to be from original material of 1881.
White aggregates on phillipsite with pale green prismatic crystals of aegirine-augite
Small colourless prismatic crystals
Pale green crystals. Ex Al Ordway Collection, ex Bill Muller
Collected. Gypsum post-mining?
Orange prismatic bellite, blue diaboleite, yellow schwartzembergite
Good prismatic crystals of colourless prehnite with green diopside. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
Dark green crystals of antlerite with colourless gypsum crystals. Ex Brian Shelton Collection (No. A30-2), ex John Batterbee Collection. From Bench C-2.
Type locality. Partial orange crystal.
Type locality. Brown patches. Ex Richard Tayler Minerals, Cobham, Surrey
Type locality. Greenish yellow acicular sprays. Formerly known as kankite from this locality.
Type locality for sailaufite. Reddish black crystals with black beraunite.
Bright blue plates on matrix.
Tiny white and clear slim elongated prisms with red-brown coating on pyrite. Only a small quantity of this material was collected by one collector and very little of it was saved.
Pale yellow fibres of studtite on matrix with bright yellow crusts made up of a mixture of phosphuranylite and saleeite. Studtite is a very unusual uranium species because it is the only known mineral that...
Ex Michigan Tech collection specimen 4191 with label (an older label referring to the institution by its older name, Michigan College of Mines, used up to 1925). Also has a Seaman Museum label on the...
Vintage micromount: A superb 4x3mm display face specimen of Gratonite from its type locality, Cerro do Pasco, Peru. It was once a duplicate in the collection (later bequeathed the Smithsonian) of the late Neal Yedlin....
Dark pink crystal (rubellite). Ex Wright’s Rockshop. Chris Wright has since passed.
Pink crystal (rubellite). Ex Harold A. Noble Collection, ex SD Gems(?). Harold Noble was part owner of Anita Mine in 1958 see http://www.mindat.org/loc-55919.html
Ex Al Ordway No. 188. Gift from D. Pohl. Dark blue crystals
Arborescent silver group, no matrix
Ex Al Ordway. Blue-capped pink crystal. Repaired
Type locality. Ex Willard Perkins. Green and pink zoned crystal
Pink crystals. Ex Hawthorneden thumbnail
Vanadinite pseudo (epimorph) after wulfenite. Collected ca 1978
Intense blue fluorite cubes on massive brown hematite with tiny colourless quartz crystals in cavities in the hematite
Type locality. Pale yellow crystals. Ex Dr Fred P. d’Esopo Collection via William Pinch
Bright yellow crystals mounted on cork pedestal.
Type locality. Sky blue crystals
Type locality for giniite. Tavorite green, giniite black
Type locality. Colourless crystals in viens
Type locality. Black-brown crystals in mica matrix
Type locality. No matrix group of crystals.
Pale green tufts on spheres. Ex Al Kidwell
Bright red crystals in hausmannite and quartz matrix
Loose crystal aggregate. Bought at Tucson 2012
Described as pertlikite-(Zn) as yellow cubes. Krausite as colourless or white prismatic crystals. Coquimbite as lilac crystals and matrix.
Previously iwakiite. Now redefined as jacobsite-Q, a polymorph of jacobsite. Hiromi Yamasaki.
Hiromi Yamasaki. Formerly kôzulite.
Bernie & Margaret Day
Bernie & Margaret Day
Epimorph after laumontite. John Geiges. Collected by Eric Stanchich in 2007
Bernie & Margaret Day Collection. Kevin Johns
Bernie & Margaret Day
Bernie & Margaret Day Collection. Rock-site.co.uk, now Steetley Minerals – Peter Briscoe
Bernie & Margaret Day Collection. Rock-site.co.uk, now Steetley Minerals – Peter Briscoe
Bernie & Margaret Day
Bernie & Margaret Day
Epimorph after calcite
JL1332 Struvite altering to newberyite. Ex Museum Victoria
JL1547. Barry Porter $2
JL1374. Geoff Randall $5
JL1376. Geoff Randall $5
JL1176. Ex Museum Victoria
JL0808. Milton Lavers
JL0685 Basket Weave
JL1071 Barraba? Karl Schultz
JL0942. Frank Robinson
JL1142. Barry Porter 50c
Collected by Al Kidwell
Sir Arthur Russell Collection
A E Seaman Mineral Museum
A E Seaman Mineral Museum (Donor T Lipton Hancock)
Faceted tanzanite gem 0.47 carats
