Small patches of gold associated with altered pyrite. Labelled Inini. Ex Cedrick Gineste 2/2005. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small patches of gold in quartz. Labelled Inini. Ex Cedrick Gineste 2/2005. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 52 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small patches of gold associated with altered pyrite. Labelled Inini. Ex Cederick Gineste 2/2005. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Bright gold richly embedded throughout matrix. Ex Margaret Brown. Ex Castlemaine School of Mines. Ex CLC Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Visible gold (just above centre) with yellow timroseite and green khinite. Type Locality for timroseite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 51 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hackly gold in a quartz vein. Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1988 from Tony Fraser at the Canberra Gemboree for $1.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991. Ex Museum Victoria.
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.
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...
Photo width 11mm. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan from Harold Gallasch, Hahndorf, South Australia in 1995 for $15.00. Probably from the Wire Patch, Farncomb Hill (Brian Kosnar).
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992. Ex Museum Victoria. Collected in 1898.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 63 images.
Tiny fragment in a capsule. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2001 from Jocelyn Thornton at the Mineralogical Societies Seminar in Hobart.
Stacked crystals of gold that twist and bend giving an almost curved wire gold look. In one image, the red circled areas show a change to the tips of these “wires”. One in particular is...
A single grain of gold approximately 1mm wide, mounted on the point of a pin. Label says recovered from the rock run below the Eagle mine. Width 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Label also includes...
Cluster of tiny gold crystals. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Obtained from Gordon Dicker in 1973.
Small amount of gold in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 70 images.
Gold (trying very hard to be an octahedral crystal) in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 58 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Very small patches of hackly gold embedded in quartz. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Small amount of gold with iridescent goethite in white quartz.
Bright gold patches with iridescent goethite in white quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 50 images.
Rich hackly gold in quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Small flakes of gold on vein quartz and on galena. Also present in one cavity – malachite and cerussite. Possible acanthite on silver in another. Width 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Many flakes of gold on matrix. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
5200-5203 mounted in one box. by Jules Bernhardt in 1976. Video best viewed full screen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
Small amount of gold in quartz. See arrow.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 from Nick Carruth. Photo width 11mm.
Acquired in 2001 by Joan Lamond from George Lysiuk (collected in 1986).
Shantytown. Jack Nelson Collection
Coarsely crystalline gold in white quartz. Chris Ah Yee.
Flattened alluvial gold. John Betts.
Waverley Show 2017
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Coarse hackly gold on contact edge of quartz reef
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Many patches of gold in crystaline quartz with a few stannite crystals.
Small amount of gold with wolframite.
ex Jack Leach Collection
ex Jack Leach Collection
ex Jack Leach Collection
Small bright gold nestled amongst quartz crystals.
2 or 3 patches of gold on green mottramite and red vanadinite.
Two pieces. Bright gold on deep blue chrysocolla.
Small nugget, about 8mm tall, very coarse with minor quartz
Rutheniridosmine and Iridosmine (iridium) crystalline silvery grey granules, with native gold
Two small coarse gold in white quartz specimens
Alluvial or deep lead nugget with minor quartz, 0.38g.
JL1376. Geoff Randall $5
JL1374. Geoff Randall $5
JL0337. Arthur Roffey $12
JL0179. Ex Museum Vic
JL0236. Ex Museum Vic
JL0514. Michael Newnham $5
Ex Jack Nelson Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Small patches of gold on quartz.
Crystalline nugget 4.66g.
Sealed glass ampule containing many flattened flakes of gold. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
11 well-formed gold crystals. Ex Hugh Ford. Ex Eugene Carmichael, number 1401.
Gold in matrix, 10x5mm. Ex Roland Fogg MM Collection, 1971. Ex Trevor Boyd Collection.
Four gold nuggets panned by Charles Willett in Second Broad River, Near Marion,, Rutherford Co., mounted on cork post (standard micromount support).
Gold nugget panned by E Lee Wood. Mounted by Charles Willett on a cactus needle.
Ex Joan Lamond 3636, acquired as a swap with Jocelyn Thornton. Patch of gold in quartz with minor sulphide mineralisation, possibly arsenopyrite.
Known as the Wombat’s head. From one of the two first official gold discoveries in Victoria. I panned this before I became interested in minerals.
Tiny brown puffballs of kuranakhite with dark yellow gold and silver tellurium
Tiny brown puffballs of kuranakhite with dark yellow gold and silver tellurium
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Crude crystals of gold make up this specimen from the Roger A Mine, Mt Kare Valley, Mt Hagen, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. Photo width 5mm.
