This is the first time I have seen this colour on a Broken Hill specimen! Spectacular under shortwave ultraviolet light. The smithsonite glows yellow under longwave, pink under medium wave and violet red under shortwave....
Pale blue chrysocolla replacing azurite crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 32 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brownish crystal of chlorargyrite on malachite. Also present but not in photo, azurite crystals. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A lovely cluster of azurite crystals without matrix, labelled as from the Holbrook Extension. Width of view 32mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Grey cerussite crystals on azurite. Ex Graham Lee. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Brownish bladed cerussite with green needles of malachite and blue bladed azurite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 37 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous azurite crystals on and with prismatic white cerussite. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 33 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.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1986 from Mary Wilde of the Mordialloc Club.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Cute little thumbnail azurite. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Specimen is 12mm across. 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 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.
10mm across and much more intense blue than you normally see. Acquired by Joan Lamond from George Williams in 1999 at the Castlemaine Gemkana for $1.50.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from George Williams in 1999 at the Castlemaine Gemkana for $1.50.
Group of stacked azurite crystals. Ex George Reimherr Collection. 21mm wide.
Azurite roses. Width 11mm. Stack of 130 images. Ex John Sobolewski. Ex Matt Gibbs.
Clusters of blue bladed azurite with many colourless prismatic twinned harmotome crystals, and colourless bladed barite crystals. The barite fluoresces a creamy white. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Superb cluster of azurite crystals. Very solid piece. Video best viewed full screen.
Two sharp azurite crystals in a V formation with unidentified green and white minerals. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Ron Galbraith Collection, Northern Districts. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Some orange fluorescence – cerussite maybe. Video best viewed full screen.
Superb azurite crystal altering from within to malachite.
Ex Keith Williams, Williams Minerals.
Ex Chas. W. Velte Jnr.
Drusy quartz over azurite. Width of view 2mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Bernie Day specimen. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Unusual azurite with the appearance of white edges. Width of view 2mm. Stack of 53 images. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Harry Critchley.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 7mm. Stack 0f 11 images.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Collected in 1999, Rod Martin
Collected in 1999, Rod Martin
ex Patrick C. Murphy, ex Darren Lucas
Labelled simply as Moldowa, Bannat. Very similar to Mindat photo 459649. Ex Dr A. Kranz in Bonn, number 35470. Ex Michigan Mining School Collection, number 35470 crossed out, new number 6033. Ex Michigan College of...
Lustrous dark blue crystals coat one face. Some contacts(?).
Superb cluster of crystals on matrix. Ex Eugene Carmichael Collection (EWC 497), ex Lawrence Conklin (priced at US$900).
Single thick lustrous blue crystal on minor amount of matrix. This lot of azurites was collected from a water-course that intersected the orebody. Many great specimens were found andtaken to the US to sell. When...
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Jack Leach Collection
Vintage micromount that once belonged to the late micromounter, the Rev. Robert Jacoby. Mounted on old time cork pedestals in the kind of vintage cardboard cases that were favored by the top micromounters in this...
Vintage micromount that once belonged to the late micromounter, the Rev. Robert Jacoby. Mounted on old time cork pedestals in the kind of vintage cardboard cases that were favored by the top micromounters in this...
Ex Al Ordway No. 188. Gift from D. Pohl. Dark blue crystals
Pseudomorph. Margaret Brown Collection
K & M Brown Collection
Ex Jack Nelson Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection.
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Sharp blue azurite crystals on and around a cuprite crystal replaced by malachite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
Sharp distinct crystals of azurite, and lesser anglesite, on malachite. Previously in the Terry Enwright collection. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
Minor malachite balls on bladed azurite. Previously in the Terry Enwright collection. Acquired from Cyril Kovac at the 2013 Waverley Show.
Ex Joan Lamond 3156, received as a gift from Frank Robinson in 1986. Drusy quartz coats azurite crystals. One or two are pseudomorphs of malachite after azurite.
A neat little spray of malachite, roughly 0.6mm across, from the lesser-known Mineral Hill deposit, the Iodide Mine (Mount Iodide Mine), Mineral Hill field, Condobolin district, Kennedy Co., New South Wales. Also present on the specimen...
