Colourless hexagonal tabular plates of levyne on rounded crystalline aggregates of thomsonite (eg: bottom of photo) and chabazite (eg: top of photo). Also present is what looks like a tiny analcime crystal on one of...
A group of calcite crystals on a calcite ball in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Bluish-white fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 34 images...
A group of dark calcite crystals that show zoning under longwave ultraviolet light in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. Ex Ashleigh Watt Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 56 images (whitelight),...
A steeply-terminated calcite crystal with a dark core in a vugh lined with phillipsite and chabazite crystals. The main calcite crystal fluoresces orange under longwave ultraviolet light. A second partial brown calcite fluoresces bright white....
Silky erionite overgrowths clearly showing on broken levyne crystal with grey calcite crystal (the calcite is 6mm tall). Adjacent vugh is lined with thomsonite and has tiny chabazite crystals sprinkled over it. Stack of 80...
A dusting of goethite on some of the chabazite rhombs. A small stacked stilbite is nestled amongst the chabazite (centre of photo). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images (stilbite)...
Pseudocubic orange chabazite crystals sprinkled with goethite. Top photo: Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny pseudocubic chabazite impaled on natrolite with bladed thomsonite-Ca and a ball of white dolomite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 5mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A specimen of pseudocubic chabazite and twinned phillipsite in a vugh in basalt labelled as ‘Cairns, Queensland’ that was collected probably in the 1970s or early 1980s. All I can find out is that the...
Isolated pseudocubic chabazite crystals, some interpenetrant. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as Caniaba Quarry, Casino, but likely to be the Clovass Quarry. Four phacolitic chabazite crystals with no matrix, collected in 1984 or earlier. Acquired by Margaret Brown in 1984 from “Shirley”. Width of view...
Four pieces. Fairly large phacolitic chabazite on natrolite. Tiny later rhombs of chabazite sprinkled on natrolite needles. Photo width 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Complex twinned chabazite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Orange-coated pseudocubic crystals of chabazite and green sulphur crystals on alabandite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 35 images. 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.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1982 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
Gmelinite-chabazite intergrowth. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 75 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 64 images.
The Organ Pipes National Park is enclosed in two Cities: Hume to the north of Jacksons Creek, and Brimbank to the south. It is not known which side of the creek this specimen was collected...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Frank Robinson.
Black manganese oxides on curved white calcite crystals and colourless pseudocubic chabazite crystals. Width 11mm. Stack of 100 images.
Interpenetrant pseudo-cubic crystals.
Phacolite habit of chabazite. Brown ferroan calcite is fluorescent and phosphorescent. Width 11mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from the late Frank Robinson in 1995.
Labeled as faeroerne, Iceland. Ex John Lewis collection
Munchener Micromounter, Helmut Braith
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
ex Jack Leach Collection
Green elbaite rims over black schorl core.
JL1506 Phacolite. Ex Museum Vic
JL1508 Phacolite. Ex Museum Vic
fluorescence between crystals
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Museum Victoria.
ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
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...
Tiny brown xls of this clay mineral coating chabazite rhombs with stilbite xls. Best with 30-40x
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