Colourless scalenohedral crystals, some with a white coating. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded honey-coloured jellybean smithsonite crystals with bladed barite. Acquired from Philip Grounds, Bay Minerals, in 2012. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny smithsonite crystals on interpenetrant fluorite and bladed barite crystals, on quartz. Acquired from Philip Grounds, Bay Minerals, in 2012. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a...
Smithsonite epimorphs after calcite. Acquired from Richard Bell. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
There appears to be a couple of generations of smithsonite. The first larger crystals, and the second much smaller crystals, visible around the edges of some of the larger ones. Acquired from Richard Bell. Width...
Acquired from Mark Ascher 9/2007. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for monteponite. Tan smithsonite with yellow and brown monteponite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unusual rhombohedral hematite showing some rainbow colouration, with orange-brown siderite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Specimen acquired in the micromount room at the Tucson Show. Ex Bob Jenkins. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Harry Critchley. Width of view 21mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Slender white crystal group. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Curved white crystals. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rounded scalenohedral crystals. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Labelled simply Lyndhurst, but likely the Avondale Mine. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Transparent colourless prismatic calcite crystals with photo showing termination. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 20 images. Labelled as Moonta, but more likely Wallaroo. Click on the image below for a...
Transparent colourless prismatic calcite crystals with chlorite(?) inclusion. Ex Ron Wallace collection. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark brown cleavage. Width of view 25mm. Use the slider to see specimen front and back lit. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Highly fluorescent calcite crystals. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 50 images (white light) and 11 images (UV). Use the slider to see under white light and longwave UV. Click on the images below for...
Sceptred calcite crystal 17mm long. Ex Ian Graham. Ex Margaret Brown. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. When you zoom in you can see some interesting surface...
Goethite balls on bladed calcite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ball of bladed crystals with orange fluorescence. Ex Margaret Brown Collection. Width of view 25mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Goethite coating calcite crystals. There a few small calcite crystals of a different habit that have formed after the goethite. Width of view 13mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a...
Rosettes of pale greenish-yellow platy crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1984. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cacoxenite as yellow-orange to brown hemispheres of radiating crystals, some as bow-ties. Very pale purple strengite. Colourless prisms of wavellite. Obtained by Joan in 1999 from Robyn Sharp. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 56...
Translucent-looking orange-brown hemispheres isolated from the more common yellow-orange acicular to fibrous ones. Acquired from John Haupt 4/06. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images.
Orange hemispheres on an iridescent goethite background. They are zoned with a darker core. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images.
Specimen measures 38x37x30mm and is shown under white light, longwave UV, medium wave UV and shortwave UV.
Pareidolia! I see the head of a Big Cat in this small slug of gold in quartz. Photo width 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange crystal group with no matrix. Width of group 2mm. Stack of 18 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless analcime crystals on heulandite. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny deep blue acicular buttgenbachite crystal sprays (centre of image) with green-blue gerhardtite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Analysis is required to distinguish between connellite (sulphate) and buttgenbachite...
Pink puffballs of erythrite in a cavity that was originally likely filled with sulphides. Acquired from Helmut Braith. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
This specimen comprises very dark purple crystals of erythrite, but the tips of the crystals flare out a little and show up as a lighter shade of pink. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20...
Ex Ralph E. Merrill Collection. Ex Peter Bridge. Tan powder in 44mm long glass vial.
A tiny needle of greenish rutile on an orange brookite on a larger dark anatase crystal. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny pink crystalline crust of erythrite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Zoned crystals of brookite in small cavities in quartz. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish-green radiating groups of bladed brochantite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 73 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Nice bluish prismatic crystals of brochantite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish thin crystals of brochantite under a malachite ball, Inkerman Mine, Mount Isa Area, Queensland. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher...
Green bromargyrite and bromian chlorargyrite crystals on chalcophanite with minor grey smithsonite. Acquired from David Vince in 1992. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Green cubic crystals of bromargyrite with bright native silver. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin bladed prismatic deep pink erythrite crystals with globular pale pink to lilac Co-bearing mansfieldite on black heterogenite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
White brianyoungite with colourless-grey pyromorphite and stolzite, both of which fluoresce weakly. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Photo width 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Multi-terminated amethyst crystal, 70x50x40mm.
Yellow platy crystals. Ex Marco Poli.
Silver in matrix slice, 67x45x7mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A twinned chabazite crystal about 0.6mm across. Single shot photo through my microscope at 20x magnification and cropped. Testing out this item. A cheap way of getting relatively good photos through a microscope.
Extremely rich 8x7x2mm specimen containing abundant inclusions (red arrowed) of brown biraite-(Ce) – an extremely rare silico-carbonate of REE. Biraite contains microscopic inclusions of hydroxylbastnasite-(Ce) and intergrows with its more yellow macro grains well recognisable...
Iridescent bornite in between layers of wollastonite. Ex David Vince. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images.
Acquired from Mathew Latham. What looks like bismuth crystals bottom left is the imprint of andradite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 18 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless to tan crusts on bat guano. Type Locality. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A mass of small lustrous and sharp azurite crystals. Specimen measures 21mm across. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bismuth “crystals” that have grown between molybdenite crystal aggregates. Specimen measures 23x20mm. Ex Jo Price Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Specimen is 24mm wide. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow pottsite and small areas of orange clinobisvanite. Specimen is 6mm wide. Type Locality for pottsite. Acquired from Jim Ferraiolo 6/2005. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single crystal of bornite pseudomorphing pyrite. Width of crystal 15mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sceptred amethyst. Sceptre is 11mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Interesting textures. Specimen is 34mm wide. Ex Bart Cannon. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hematite in quartz giving it the lovely red colour. Specimen is 25mm tall.
Mined in 1820. Ex Captain Sara Collection. Ex Albert Chapman. Ex Brian Shelton. Measures 35x23x16mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange tabular wulfenite crystals on yellow pyromorphite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 120 images.
Tiny greenish-brown crystals of vauquelinite (right) with a larger brown crystal of mimetite (left). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
Orange tsumcorite coating carminite crystals with olive coloured beudantite-segnitite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
Pale blue platy crystals of spangolite coating twinned cerussite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images.
Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images.
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
Via Pinnacles dumps (not known if Kintore or Block 14). ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images.
Blue scorodite from Hemerdon Ball (now the Drakelands Mine). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images.
Very pale, almost colourless scalenohedra through to a nice mid-pink. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Doubly-terminated colourless quartz crystal with iron staining. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 10 images.
Calcite and pyrite are two very common minerals, but true to form, Broken Hill has some surprises. This specimen is 40x27x25mm and a small amount of matrix is covered by colourless calcite crystals to about...
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bluish brochantite on iridescent goethite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Grey hexagonal crystal of gordaite partially exposed. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images.
Green corkite-hinsdalite on pyromorphite. Note the colourless tips of the pyromorphite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sharp olive green crystal of bromian chlorargyrite (embolite) on hexagonal crystals of chalcophanite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. Bottom photo taken in...
Red carminite with green beudantite-segnitite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 45 images (first photo). Width of view 5mm. Stack of 80 images (second photo). Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow transparent prismatic crystals. Labelled as barium uranophane. Collected before 1980.
Green smithsonite. Ex John Lewis Collection. Ex Bernie Day.
Blue balls. Nice small spessartine garnets. Collected from Block 14 dump material at the Pinnacles Mine. Ex John Lewis Collection.
Labelled as boulangerite, El Sombrette Mine, Durango. Likely jamesonite, and from the Sombrerete Mine, in Zacatecas, but close to the border with Durango. Ex John Lewis Collection.
Ex John Lewis collection.
Wavellite bow-ties. Ex John Lewis Collection.
Prismatic rectangular cross-section colourless crystals of bertrandite formed in a cavity that once was a beryl crystal. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin white pearly cleavages on matrix, fairly sparse. 3.5×2.5cm. OW109.
Type Locality. Microscopic green spots on pink rhodonite.
Type Locality. Yellowish-green spots in aegirine syenite.
Yellow patches in matrix. Ōmi is noted as the Type Locality but it is not clear exactly where. Probably Ōmi River rather than this locality.
Silver crystals in cavities in quartz. Ex Jack and Dawn Leach Collection. Ex Gordon Jackson Collection. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Jo Price Collection. The green crystals are likely chalcosiderite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale blue bechererite in slag from the South Mine slag dumps. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Acquired from Albert and Marianne Schrander-Hettinga 1/2006. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991 from Melbourne Museum.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1988 from Tony Fraser at the Canberra Gemboree for $1.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1986 from Mary Wilde of the Mordialloc Club.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Barry Porter at the Horsham Gemkhana for $2.50.
A single orange zircon crystal mounted on a bristle(?). Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1983 from Hamish Pearson.
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Yellow calcite with bluish-white fluorescence (Convoy) and a green afterglow that takes a few seconds to fade. Colours are not exact in photo (iPhone). Also, compared to the many many calcite specimens from Chenzhou in...
Greenish-grey beaverite with tiny yellowish hexagonal prisms of mimetite. Acquired from David Vince in 1992. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cluster of pink octahedral crystals, pale blue fluorescence. Ex Roger Colling Collection.
Originally purchased from Marino Cristofli, a former miner from Dimbulah on 13th June 1996. Ex Martin Jensen Collection number MJ3254. 34x22x20mm. Pink-red fluorescence.
Pale orange calcite crystals partially coated by tiny colourless stilbite crystals. Specimen size 85x75x40mm. White fluorescence under longwave UV (Convoy) with a green afterglow. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Ex Roseann Scotti Collection. Click on the...
Not all mineral specimens are perfect. This one has suffered a little, perhaps when mined or perhaps when collected. One of the azurite crystals (the one on the right) has a couple of breaks. One...
A lot of collectors like fluorite. Whether it be for the isometric (cubic) symmetry (for those that might be a little obsessive-compulsive 😁), the range of colours and zoning, the fluorescence, or for other reasons....
Thin colourless blades of bavenite with colourless fluorite on ferroan magnesite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 45 images. VHD12. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Purplish-grey vanadinite with yellow descloizite. A.O. stands for Al Ordway who found nice micro vanadinite and descloizite. Acquired from Al Wilkins. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from John Haupt. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky colourless barite crystals with sharp blue azurite. Acquired from John Haupt 4/06. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree in 1994. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Complex yellow crystals of barite on goethite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Golden barite crystals with goethite balls on the surface and native copper inclusions. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Stack of 65 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of pale yellow barite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Identified from the 2017 mining operation, acquired directly from the miner, Dehne McLaughlin. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992 at the Horsham Gemkhana from Barry Porter for $4.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990 from Stan Rowe.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1986 at the Waverley Show from Down Under Minerals.
The “Lighthouse”, sceptered calcite. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Michael Hirst.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1991 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 at the Hobart Joint Mineralogical Societies Seminar from Brian Beyer for $5.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 at the Horsham Gemkhana from Barry Porter for $2.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1989. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1982 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1980.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 at the Ballarat Gemboree from Don McColl for 50c.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991. Ex Museum Victoria.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1982 on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1988 from a tailgater at the Canberra Gemboree for $2.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Dick Haslam.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 2000 on a Victorian Mineralogical Society field trip.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1997 on a Victorian Mineralogical Society field trip.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Judy Rowe.
Colourless blocky coffin-shaped heulandite crystals with colourless prisms of erionite-K. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny platy orange crystals of bastnäsite-(Ce) with yellow hexagonal mimetite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 2.33mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Rough hackly bits of gold in matrix. Acquired from Ian Graham in 1993. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenish yellow cubes of bariopharmacosiderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 2.33mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black to dark green barbosalite with brown wolfeite. Width of specimen 14mm.
Black bannisterite showing typical platy crystals, with small rhodonite crystals. Specimen measures 13mm high. Ex Joan Lamond Collection.
Labelled Peak Mine (Peak Gold Mines is the operator). Green crystals of bayldonite with smaller light bluish-green crystals of adamite(?) and olive-green chenevixite(?). Elsewhere on the specimen are tiny yellow crystals of gartrellite. Width of...
Dark green crystals of bayldonite with lighter green olivenite, and yellow hidalgoite crusts on colourless mimetite. You can see the tips of the mimetite peeking through on a few crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2003 from John Haupt. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny thin colourless blades of bavenite with colourless fluorite on oxidised Fe bearing magnesite. Width of view 1.75mm, stack of 40 images (first photo) and width of view 3.5mm and stack of 70 images (second...
One large crystal with a cluster of smaller ones from a locality best known for its opal. Width of view 22mm.
Dendritic copper in yellow barite. Width of specimen 20mm. Ex George Stacey.
Obtained in a trade with Al Wilkins. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
This specimen shows a couple of interesting properties of cerussite. The first is the unfortunate way that crystals can easily break (right hand end of main white cerussite crystal). The second is its habit of...
Azurite with malachite partially pseudomorphing one crystal. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Stunning blue azurite. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale pink axinite-(Fe). Width of view 9mm. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cute little thumbnail azurite. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Specimen is 12mm across. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 55 images.
Elongated pyrite crystals, one as a “flag”, with a pyrite cube at the tip, on colourless to white chabazite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image...
Type Locality for parasibirskite. C. Loranth photo.
Type Locality C. Loranth photo.
Type Locality for both species. C. Loranth photo.
Pale blue trolleite inclusions in a colourless grain of augelite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A black franklinite crystal is either a seed for, or an inclusion in, a brown hendricksite crystal. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Type Locality for tvalchrelidzeite, a rare sulphosalt with a specific composition of Hg3SbAsS3. A little red cinnabar too. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Black franklinite, pink rhodonite and red fluorescent colourless calcite. Width of view 10mm. UV photo using a Convoy S2+. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version.
A fairly sharp dark green gahnite crystal on chrysocolla. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black franklinite crystals with secondary copper minerals in between. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Type Locality for franklinite. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bladed balls of thomsonite crystals with natrolite needles sticking out, well-formed phillipsite and phacolitic chabazite (the latter two not in photo). Collected by me. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the...
You can’t always have a perfect mineral specimen. So sometimes you make do until you can upgrade. This is one of those less than perfect ones. However, you can still see the hexagonal habit of...
Bladed crystals of azurite with green crystals of libethenite on pale blue chrysocolla. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous blue azurite crystals on a goethite matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Superb sharp lustrous azurite crystals with minor malachite. Look closely, and you can see a phantom in the azurite crystal photographed. From the No. 27 Bench. This is the only azurite phantom that I have...
Thin platy azurite crystals. From the No. 23 Bench. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A sharp azurite crystal casting a blue hue on the malachite beneath. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous azurite crystals reflecting nearby malachite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Collected by Bill Birch and Dermot Henry in 1996. Pictured is purple axinite and colourless danburite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image...
A single brown-purple axinite crystal on arsenopyrite. The latter is highly reflective and you can see the reflection of the axinite. Ex Mark Hallam. Width of view 3.5. Stack of 60 images. Click on the...
Thin greenish-yellow plates of highly fluorescence autunite with orange-yellow rounded eosphorite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. UV photo: Width of view...
Golden crystals of austinite with creamy white hexagonal crystals of hedyphane. The hedyphane fluoresces strongly yellow. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Greenish-blue aurichalcite with very little definition or contrast on white hydrozincite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Quite a bit going on here. In the centre is light blue aurichalcite on a darker blue hemisphere of rosasite (there is a second hemisphere behind and to the left as well). In front to...
Sky blue thin crystals of aurichalcite. Also present but not in photo – colourless hemimorphite and pale green smithsonite. Multiple fluorescent colours under longwave – orange-red (appears to be the smithsonite), orange (tiny patch of...
Pale blue acicular aurichalcite on granular white hydrozincite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny sky blue platelets of claraite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 15 images. Ex Helmut Braith. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Black prismatic augite crystals with brown coated ilmenite. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single orange wulfenite with tiny green atacamite on a coated earlier version of atacamite and quartz. There are other wulfenite crystals on the specimen. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of...
Parallel growth crystal aggregates, looking down the C axis. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1983 on a field trip that was part of the Adelaide Mineralogical Society Seminar. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Flat bladed green atacamite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Prismatic green crystals in a small vugh. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark olive green olivenite with thin bands of lime green conichalcite. The white mineral between is unknown. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998. Click...
Bright blue crystals of ashburtonite from the Type Locality. Width of view 2.33mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Rob Sielecki in 1998 for $15.00. Click on the...
Stubby green crystals of olivenite with pale thin tabular barite, that sprinkled with a tiny yellow arseniosiderite balls. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Ex Cederick Gineste 2/2005. Click on the image below...
A 5-rayed twin rather than the normal 6! Crystal group is 5mm across.
Spongy reddish gold that results possibly from the breakdown of aurostibite(?) with small areas of more yellow native gold, and silver stibnite. Collected by me in the early 1990s. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of...
Olive green crystals of olivenite on pale blue chrysocolla. Not in the photo – clinoclase. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A lovely little specimen of prismatic green atacamite crystals. Ex Graham Lee. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange and red greenockite with galena, tennantite-tetrahedrite, pyrite and cerussite. The orange greenockite fluoresces red but the red crystals don’t. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 72 images (white light) and a stack of only...
Time to cut the grass! A mass of jackstraw crystals of olivenite. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Green prismatic crystals of olivenite. Interestingly, when you zoom in, particularly towards the top of the image, you can also see tiny white hexagonal crystals (likely mimetite) and rounded green crystals (likely copper-bearing adamite or...
Pale blue rosette of platy crystals of motukoreaite on grey-brown calcite and colourless phillipsite. Tiny blue hemispheres of motukoreaite dotted around calcite also. Width of view 3.5mm. Top image: Stack of 50 images. Bottom image:...
Yellow crystals in a cavity in dolomite, Ex Albert Schrander-Hettinga, 2005. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Not a great specimen, but colourless crystals of phosphophyllite present, some showing indications of twinning, with brown sphalerite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
A small mass of silver crystals. Exact locality is unknown. Ex Bob Rothenberg. Ex Al Pribula. Width of view 2.33mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless to yellowish hexagonal prisms of milarite. Ex Bob Rothenberg. Ex Walter Bagley. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Colourless to white tufts of oyelite. Ex Bob Rothenberg. Ex Rocko’s Minerals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale orange serandite crystals. Ex Bob Rothenberg. Ex Giles Haineault. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 39 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An artful ex-Bob Rothenberg mount (also ex Robin Tibbit). The little disc on which he’s mounted the crystals has a diameter of 6 mm. The disc sits atop a cork pedestal affixed to the black...
Vintage micromount. Ex Bob Rothenberg collection, previously Walter Bagley and John Francis Calvert (Calvert died in 1897). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue clinoclase crystals on matrix from Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall, England. Ex Bob Rothenberg collection, previously from the John Frederick Calvert collection (died 1897). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on...
Bright yellow flowers of tyuyamunite. Ex Bob Rothenberg. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A beautiful cluster of blue sampleite crystals with a dark green atacamite crystal behind. Ex Bob Rothenberg. Ex Terry Scenics. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a...
A small terminated colourless aragonite crystal in amongst crystalline pink aragonite (coloured by strontium?). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
White blocky crystals of fluorapophyllite-(K), some corroded, on a bed of phillipsite, with natrolite and calcite, some of which are perched on natrolite needles. Main image width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click...
Apophyllite crystals (probably fluorapophyllite-(K)) on brown bladed crystals of inesite. Ex Brian Shelton Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Flat-lying bladed colourless aragonite crystals on green serpentine with minor dark purple stichtite (not in photo). At one time, these were described as magnesite, but analysis showed them to be aragonite. Ex Jo Price Collection....
A spray of aragonite bladed crystals with unusual zig-zag markings on the faces. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ugly looking aragonite crystals that appear to have been partially etched giving them a greyish appearance, and then clear colourless tips have been added to the terminations. From an old locality. Ex Jo Price Collection....
A radiating spray of aragonite needles. Many of these sprays have seeded on an earlier larger aragonite crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below...
A spray of tapered aragonite crystals, with this image showing some of the typical terminations (and a broken crystal – third from the left, demonstrating the fragile nature of such specimens). Ex Jo Price Collection....
A neat spray of bladed aragonite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A brown partially melted hexagonal apatite crystal with a hollow centre. Ex Jo Price Collection. Height of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A single hexagonal yellowish apatite crystal perched on albite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 36 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A nice spray of thin colourless aragonite blades. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Second photo shows complex twinned chabazite with the aragonite in the background. Dark green hemispheres are saponite. Width of...
~1mm buff-coloured crystals. Type Locality. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A nice cluster of zoned tabular hexagonal fluorapatite crystals. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 22mm. Stack of 17 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A mass of lime green hexagonal pyromorphite crystals from the MMM South Mine operations. Width of view is 9.5mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. (Top photo...
A coated hexagonal prism of fluorapatite from the Pyramid Hill granite Quarry, Victoria. Not as pretty as the Lake Boga ones. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 10 images. Click on the image below for...
Fluorapophyllite (probably fluorapophyllite-(K)) crystal showing typical cleavage planes. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hair-like colourless crystals of fluorapatite. Also present, white millisite on blocky wardite crystals, and green kidwellite. Ex Graham Lee Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a...
Ankerite with colourless prismatic quartz and minor chalcopyrite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny anglesite crystals with even smaller orange minium. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky anglesite crystal. Acquired from Richard Wolfe 2/2005. Width of view 6.5mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unusual hoppered(?) crystal. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Group of sharp anglesite crystals. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Elongated colourless crystals of anglesite, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Collected on the dumps at the Pinnacles Mine. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below...
A lovely green anglesite from the 1998 discovery in the Block 14 open cut. Previously in the Milton Lavers Collection. Photo width 3.5mm. Stack of 33 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A really difficult one to photograph. Transparent colourless sabinaite crystal (centre of photo) with white dawsonite and blue sodalite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Yellowish pseudohexagonal plates of synchysite-(Ce) with tiny pyrite crystals sprinkled on them. White albite crystals at the base. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1993 from Cynthia Peat (peatite-(Y)). Width of view 3.5mm....
At least three separate episodes of andradite garnet deposition on this specimen. First of all, orange garnet, then green, and finally, much smaller olive-green to black crystals. An interesting paragenesis. Width of view 3.5mm and...
An orange andradite caterpillar. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 20 images. Clinozoisite photo width 11.5mm. Stack of 34 items. Click on the images below for a higher resolution version…
