2068 Vanadinite, Hochobir, Carinthia, Austria
Lots of orange-brown hexagonal crystals, some with prism faces. Matrix exhibits a bright creamy fluorescence.
0496 Kaolinite, Goonbarrow China Clay Pit, Bugle, Treverbyn, St Austell District, Cornwall, England
Kaolinite pseudomorph after orthoclase (Pig’s Egg). Purchased at the 2013 Ballarat Gem Show. Video best viewed full screen.
2191 Beryl, Sellaite, Quartz, Fluorite, Mt Bischoff, Waratah, Tasmania
Terminated crystals of blue beryl with colourless crystals of sellaite and quartz. Fluorite was picked up by fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. A yellow-orange fluorescence may be non-crystalline sellaite. In the fluorescent photos, there are also...
5669 Durangite, Hematite, Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA
Sharp orange-red crystal groups and single crystal. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
5668 Cuprite, Ray Mine, Mineral Creek Mining District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
Single crystal on small amount of matrix. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
30099 Natrolite, Gmelinite, Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria
White natrolite and red (hematite-stained) gmelinite in a vugh in basalt. Video best viewed full screen.
3941 Azurite, Shilu Mine, Yangchun Co., Yangjiang Prefecture, Guangdong Province, China
Superb cluster of azurite crystals. Very solid piece. Video best viewed full screen.
30098 Azurite, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
Two sharp azurite crystals in a V formation with unidentified green and white minerals. Video best viewed full screen.
30097 Wulfenite, Jianshan Mine, Ruoqiang Co., Xinjiang, China
Sharp orange-red tabular/platey crystals. Locality likely Jianshan Mine, although not labelled as such. Labelled as Guangxi, China – no wulfenite listed in Mindat in this region. Recent similar specimens from seller are noted as Xinjiang...
30096 Quartz, Hematite, Bessemer Ridge, Green Mountain, North Bend, King Co., Washington, USA
Quartz and hematite pseudomorph after an epidote crystal coated with tiny quartz crystals. MinID RMK-561. Video best viewed full screen.
20054 Quartz, Goethite, Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
Slender quartz crystal with goethite inclusions and unknown black rhombohedral species. Video best viewed full screen.
5667 Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa
Deep orange-red sharp crystals. Ex Brian Shelton Collection. Photo widths 9mm and 5mm.
30095 Celestine, Sakoany deposit, Katsepy, Mitsinjo, Boeny, Madagascar
Heavy specimen. Sharp pale blue crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
30094 Crocoite, Gibbsite, 2010 Pocket, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Many crystals not terminated. The largest terminated crystal has smaller parallel growth crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
30093 Pyromorphite, Malachite, Emerald Pocket, Brown’s Prospect, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory
Collected August 2010 by Dave Rosewall and Paul Melville. Video best viewed full screen.
5666 Opal, Lightning Ridge, Finch Co., New South Wales
Predominantly blue and green thin opal seams.
5383 Calcite, Shimen Co., Changde Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
Butterfly twin. Pink fluorescence. Video best viewed full screen.
30092 Copper, Cuprite, Tonglüshan Mine, Daye Co., Huangshi, Hubei, China
An attractive copper specimen partially altered to dark red cuprite. Video best viewed full screen.
30091 Sphalerite, Quartz, Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia
Complex black sphalerite with orange coated quartz crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
30090 Cassiterite, Viloco Mine (Araca Mine), Loayza Province, La Paz, Bolivia
Heavy specimen. Most of the matrix is cassiterite too. Video best viewed full screen.
30089 Fluorapatite, Calcite, Liscombe Deposit, Monmouth Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada
Fluorapatite crystal is repaired in three places. It is not fluorescent, but the glue used is. The calcite matrix fluoresces pink. Video best viewed full screen.
20053 Fluorite, Rogerley Mine, Rogerley Quarry, Frosterley, Weardale, County Durham, England
Often, Rogerley specimens are larger with bigger crystals. But this one is cute. And of course, fluorescent. Video best viewed full screen.
30088 Pyrite, Marcasite, Calcite, Nanisivik Mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Canada
Pyrite after marcasite, with calcite and a second generation of pyrite. The calcite is fluorescent pink under longwave UV. Video best viewed full screen.
30087 Vanadinite, Calcite, Apache Mine, Radium, Burch area, Globe Hills, Gila Co., Arizona, USA
Mineralisation on all faces with no obvious point of contact so was probably a breccia. Some glue on one side. Video best viewed full screen.
30086 Azurite, Burra Mine, Burra, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Ex Ron Galbraith Collection, Northern Districts. Video best viewed full screen.
30085 Vanadinite, Mibladen mining district, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Deep orange-brown crystals, with some tan coloured faces. Video best viewed full screen.
30084 Wulfenite, Mimetite, Barite, Rowley Mine, Theba, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
Orange tabular wulfenite crystals with yellow mimetite on pale pinkish crystalline barite. Video best viewed full screen.
20052 Wulfenite, Calcite, Jianshan Mine, Ruoqiang Co., Bayin’gholin Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China
Sharp orange wulfenite blades, some with a dusting of white calcite on one face. Video best viewed full screen.
30083 Sphalerite, Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
Fracture runs right through specimen. No sign of any repairs. Video best viewed full screen.
2639 Ulrichite, Lake Boga, Victoria
Feathery apple-green sprays of the rare copper uranium phosphate, ulrichite. 5mm across.
5203 Diamond, Sierra Leone
5200-5203 mounted in one box. by Jules Bernhardt in 1976. Video best viewed full screen.
5202 Copper, Ray Mine, Pinal Co, Arizona, USA
5200-5203 mounted in one box. by Jules Bernhardt in 1976. Video best viewed full screen.
5201 Silver, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico
5200-5203 mounted in one box. by Jules Bernhardt in 1976. Video best viewed full screen.
5200 Gold, Kittitas Co., Washington
5200-5203 mounted in one box. by Jules Bernhardt in 1976. Video best viewed full screen.
30082 Amethsyt, Hematite, Keem, Achill Island, County Mayo, Connacht, Ireland
Hematite inclusions in amethyst. Video best viewed full screen.
20051 Dioptase, Calcite, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
Sharp green dioptase crystals on calcite. Ex Roger Colling Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30081 Chabazite-Ca, Heulandite-Ca, Wasson Bluff, Parrsboro, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
Pink-orange chabazite and colourless pearlescent heulandite. Includes old label. Video best viewed full screen.
30080 Epidote, Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Pale “fibrous” termination on main crystal. No matrix. Video best viewed full screen.
30079 Gmelinite, Calcite, Analcime, Hematite, Little Plains Quarry (Fieldwicks Quarry), Blue Tier district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania
A tiny calcite crystal is perched on hematite-coated gmelinite in a vugh of analcime. Collected when it was called Fieldwicks Quarry. Video best viewed full screen.
20050 Zircon, Jabal Tuwalah Intrusion, Medina Region, Saudi Arabia
Dull brown (metamict?) zircon crystal. Video best viewed full screen.
5210 Hemimorphite, Calcite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Old specimen of largish hemimorphite crystals partially coated by calcite crystals and glued to a glass base. Acquired from Crystal Habit. Ex J. Strange Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
4375 Prehnite, Gunnedah, New South Wales
K & M Brown Collection Video best viewed full screen.
Deaccessioned 3940 Microcline (Amazonite), Glacier Peak mines, Florissant, Teller Co., Colorado, USA
Dehne McLaughlin 2/2005 Video best viewed full screen.
Deaccessioned 30078 Calcite, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Quartz, Fluorite, Bor Pit, Dal’negorsk B deposit, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
Tiny white calcite on yellowish calcite, chalcopyrite partially covered by sphalerite, and quartz and colourless fluorite. Video best viewed full screen.
30077 Wulfenite, Mimetite, San Juan Poniente, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
Yellow bypyramidal crystals of wulfenite with green mimetite balls. Video best viewed full screen.
Deaccessioned 30076 Cassiterite, Quartz, Wenshan, Yunnan, China
Sharp cassiterite crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
30075 Erythrite, Bou Azzer Mine, Morocco
Two separate habits of erythrite, distinct sharp dark purple crystals and small hemispheres of pink crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
30074 Stichtite, Chromite, Stichtite Hill, Dundas, Tasmania
Blebs of purple stichtite enclosing relict chromite in serpentine. One face polished. Type Locality. Video best viewed full screen.
30073 Mimetite, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells Mining Region, Cumbria, England
Typical “Campylite” from this famous occurrence. Video best viewed full screen.
30072 Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Sunnyside Mine, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, Eureka Mining District, San Juan Co., Colorado, USA
Rhodochrosite epimorphs after ?? With tiny quartz crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Deaccessioned 30071 Copper, Ankerite, Cloncurry District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Mass of arborescent copper. Video best viewed full screen.
30070 Rhodochrosite, Shigaite, N’Chwaning I Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Labelled as N’Chwaning II but should be N’Chwaning I according to Mindat. Video best viewed full screen.
30069 Paravauxite, Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo, Potosí, Bolivia
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Type Locality.
30068 Barite, Dolomite, Pyrite, Calcite, Newfoundland Zinc Mine, Daniel’s Harbor, Newfoundland, Canada
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30067 Barite, Pyrite, Fluorite, Calcite, Level 4, El Solar Mine, Taxco de Alarcón, Mun. de Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico
Fluorite is white, only picked up under longwave UV. Tiny scalenohedral calcite crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30066 Scorodite, Cassiterite, Ferberite, Hemerdon Mine, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon, England
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30065 Cassiterite, Jiangxi, China
Single twinned crystal. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30064 Fluorite, Quartz, Siderite, Rampgill Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England
Pale yellow fluorite cubes, blue under longwave UV, with siderite on and in. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30063 Sturmanite, N’Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
Flattened hexagonal dipyramid yellow crystals with pronounced pinacoid faces, and with tiny colourless-white acicular crystals of quartz. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30062 Rhodochrosite, Quartz, Kutnohorite, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Pink rhodochrosite with small white crystals (kutnohorite?). These white crystals are also included in the quartz. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30061 Groutite, Calcite, Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa
Black groutite on an unknown brown stalactitic mineral with calcite that fluoresces red. Ex Barry Johnson Collection.
30060 Betrandite, Pyrite, Rhodochrosite, Ferberite, Kara-Oba W deposit, Betpakdala Desert, Karazhal, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
Cream bertrandite with small pyrite cubes, black ferberite, and orange-brown rhodochrosite. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30059 Libethenite, Burra Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30058 Olimiite, Celestine, N’Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
Olmiite fluoresces bright red under longwave UV. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30057 Epidote, Los Serranos Quarry, Albatera, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
Labelled as clinozoisite but according to Mindat, all analysed specimens are epidote.
30056 Azurite, Barite, Tynagh Mine, Killimor, County Galway, Connacht, Ireland
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Some orange fluorescence – cerussite maybe. Video best viewed full screen.
30055 Scheelite, Wolfram Camp, Dimbulah, Queensland, Australia
Yellow fluorescence under longwave (indicating the presence of molybdenum). Bluish-white under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
30054 Fluorapatite, Siderite, Panasqueira Mine, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal
Fluorapatite crystals to 14mm across, pale pink fluorescence under longwave with blue rims. No response under shortwave. Video best viewed full screen.
30053 Anatase, Albite, Veny Valley, Monte Bianco Massif, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
Two small anatase crystals and albite on matrix. Video best viewed full screen.
30052 Pyromorphite, Limestone Creek, Benambra, Victoria, Australia
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30051 Aragonite, Penrice marble quarry, Angaston, Barossa Valley, North Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Cave-formation white aragonite. Bright white fluorescence with pale blue crystal tips under longwave, pale pink under shortwave.
20049 Vesuvianite, Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
Bi-coloured pink and green. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
20048 Hematite, Quartz, Muscovite, Cavradi gorge, Curnera Valley, Tujetsch, Surselva Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Group of platy hematite crystals. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
20047 Calcite, Quartz, Pachapaqui mining district, Bolognesi Province, Áncash, Peru
White spiky balls of calcite on quartz. Fluorescent pink.
20046 Sphalerite, Casapalca Mine, Casapalca, Huarochiri Province, Lima, Peru
Single twinned crystal on matrix. Ex Brian Shelton Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
6106 Cassiterite, Zinnwald, Erzgebirge, Czech Republic
Cluster of lustrous sharp crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
30050 Ulrichite, Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria, Australia
A rich specimen of apple-green micro crystals of ulrichite.
30049 Ferberite, Quartz, Tae Hwa Mine, Neungam-ri, Angseong-myeon, Chungju City, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
A group of parallel oriented sharp black ferberite crystals on a cloudy quartz crystal with a clear tip.
30048 Azurite, Malachite, Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Superb azurite crystal altering from within to malachite.
0009 Denningite, Tellurite, Tellurium, Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Yellow crystals of tellurite on platey brownish denningite with silver tellurium.
0008 Sonoraite, Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Greenish-yellow pearly hemispheres
0007 Schmitterite, Emmonsite, Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Schmitterite as tiny yellow to cream sprays, emmonsite green
0506 Malachite, Cuprite, Quartz, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland
Blocky malachite crystals on cuprite and quartz.
0503 Dolomite, Cerussite, Unknown White, Kintore Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Grey complex dolomite crystals with a single brownish cerussite crystal from the Kintore open cut, Broken Hill. In addition, there are tufts of an unknown white mineral. Candidates could be sepiolite (not recorded at Broken...
7406 JL0615 Gold, Ballarat, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
5665 Mongolite, Dorozhnyi pegmatite, Khan Bogdo Massif, Mongolia
Particles of HOLOTYPE material of Mongolite – extremely rare niobo-silicate known only in two localities worldwide. Sample comes from ex-collection of Dr. E.I. Semenov (Semenovite-(Ce)) obtained by him from the author of the mineral Dr....
5664 Stistaite, Senarmontite, Ejei (Edzhei), Kuraminskie Mtn, Chatkal-Kuraminskii Range, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Micro-nugget ~0.83×0.52×0.20 mm of pure, analyticaly confirmed by microprobe Stistaite from placer of Edzhei river. Dark in BSE phase on the SEM image (which is megascopically white) is thin film of Senarmontite, covering surface of...
ncat VHD15, Galena, Siderite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
Ex Ambros Kissling Collection
ncat VHD15 Natrolite, Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Ardglen, New South Wales
A single blocky hydroxyapophyllite-(K) crystal on a bed of prismatic colourless natrolite crystals. Width of view 10mm. Stack of 12 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD15, Molybdenite, Kitchener Mine, Almaden, Mareeba Shire, Queensland
Ex Mick Hately Collection. Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
ncat VHD11, Carnelian, Durango, Mesa Co., Colorado, USA
Pseudo after crinoid stem
ncat VHD10, Cassiterite, Goethite after Pyrite, Poldark Lode, Wheal Roots, Trevean, Wendron, Helston, Cornwall, England, UK
Very rare location. The site is only available to Chris Jewson. Very little in the literature about this very small mine.
ncat VHD10, Quartz, Wadnaminga, South Australia
Ex Roger Colling Collection