0905 Tantalite-(Mn), Elbaite, Albite, Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Blue cap elbaite with small brown tantalite 47x42x30mm.
0900 Elbaite, Quartz, Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Colourless capped green elbaite on side of quartz crystal 44x26x25mm.
0892 Celestine, Beineu-Kyr (Beyneu Kyr), Tuarkyr, Turkmenistan
Colourless crystals on matrix of celestine. Micro specimen of a larger piece (since let go).
0871 Malachite, Pyromorphite, Brown’s Prospect, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Northern Territory
Pyromorphite on malachite from The Golden Pocket, collected December 2012 by Dave Rosewall and Paul Melville. Specimen measures 80x+60x45mm.
0864 Connellite, La Finosa Mine (Fontana Rossa Mine), Ghisoni, Corte, Haute-Corse, Corsica, France
6x3mm patch of crystalline connellite on the 1.6×1.3cm display face of this micromount. It is mounted on a cork pedestal in a two piece black plastic micromount display case. Specimen is from the collection of...
0843 Albite, Fluorapatite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria
Single iron-stained fluorapatite with three small albite crystals, sitting on orthoclase
0834 Bleasdaleite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria
Tiny clusters of olive crystals
0816 Elbaite, Albite, Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Pink cap multi-colour single crystal of elbaite. The crystal is doubly terminated and without any damage. 42 ct and 50x20x16mm.
0808 Elbaite, Lepidolite, Paprok Mine (Papruk Mine; Paprowk Mine), Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province (Nurestan Province; Nooristan Province; Nuristan), Afghanistan
Deep pink rubellite tourmaline cluster with dark green cores. 33 ct and 30x22x20mm.
0807 Elbaite, Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
Pink cap multi-colour single crystal of elbaite. The crystal is doubly terminated and without any damage. 43.95 ct and 29x13x12mm.
0806 Halotrichite, Flux Mine (Goshen Mine), Flux Gulch, Alum Gulch, Harshaw District, Patagonia Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA
A vintage David Shannon (with label) thumbnail with a 32x22mm display face. It makes for a prize-worthy halotrichite thumbnail in its own right.
0803 Metatorbernite, Heulandite, Ray Mine, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District (Ray District), Dripping Spring Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
Said to be uncommon at the Ray Mine, this metatorbernite is beautiful and hardly even looks hydrated enough to be metatorbernite. Perched upon a bed of clear white heulandite crystals, this all makes for a...
0794 Xanthoconite, Proustite, Dyscrasite, O’Brien Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Vintage micro. This specimen was part of the collection of micromount Hall of Famer (ind. 1997) Bill Henderson. According to Henderson’s label, Neal Yedlin, the most renowned of all micromounters, originally placed it into circulation,...
0787 Seamanite, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Very pale pink prismatic crystals
0783 Calcite, Agate Creek, Etheridge Shire, Queensland
Cluster of calcite crystals from inside a geode
0775 Calcite, 6 Level, CSA Mine, Cobar, New South Wales
Small cluster of calcite crystals, no matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0753 Barite, Moralana, South Australia
This site is apparently extinct. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0681 Stepite, Geschieber vein, Svornost Mine (Einigkeit Mine), Jachymov (St Joachimsthal), Jachymov (St Joachimsthal) District, Krusne Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Bohmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Type locality. A uranium arsenate that occurs as green tabular crystals and spherical aggregates on weathered arsenic matrix.
0671 Fluorite, High Skears Mine, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Teesdale, North Pennines, Co. Durham, England, UK
Composed of honey yellow cubic fluorite crystals with inky blue color zone exterior edge phantoms. The specimen comes from the High Skears Mine, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Middleton, North Pennines, County Durham, England, UK. It measures 6.5×5.0×2.8cm in...
Deaccessioned 0654 Halite, Detroit Salt Company Mine (International Salt Company Mine), Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan, USA
Excellent colourless transparent cubic crystals reaching 2.2 cm in diameter and is basically all halite with the large clear crystals on the top of the piece growing on a much smaller light tan crystal base....
0646 Garronite, Garron Plateau, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
Redefined in 2015 after garronite-Na described from Mont Saint Hilaire.
0633 Siderite, Vivianite, Wannon Falls, Wannon River, Wannon, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond 3575, acquired from Museum Victoria. Dark brown trigonal crystals. Minor vivianite on one edge.
0631 Ferrierite-(Mg), Chabazite, Redcliff Head, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Pearly white hemispheres of ferrierite-Mg, showing the radiating form on broken surfaces. Look closely and you can see orange chabazite beneath the clay layer, and a few tiny colourless chabazite crystals sprinkled on top of...
