My first ever mineral specimen. I found this panning Anderson’s Creek in 1980 and it is still in my collection. Although the ‘nugget’ is only 2.5mm on its longest dimension, it is cute and reminds...
A small gold nugget. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan from Peter Cole for $6 in 1987. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan from Harold Gallasch of Hahndorf, South Australia in 1995 for $15. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Two small rounded nuggets. Width of view 18mm. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small patches of gold in ironstone matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1996 from John Toma. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Leaf gold with an embedded quartz crystal. Ex Brian Shelton. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 75 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Thin leaf gold in quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny bit of gold in matrix (centre of image). Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dendritic crystalline gold. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as Union Mine, included in Golden Gully Area in Mindat. Thin hackly leaf gold in quartz. Ex D.J. Parsons Collection, Rapid City, South Dakota. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 49 images. Click on...
Labelled as Union Mine, included in Golden Gully Area in Mindat. Thin crystalline leaf gold in quartz. Ex D.J. Parsons Collection, Rapid City, South Dakota. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 122 images. Click on...
A tiny area of gold. Gold from this location is rare, small, and hard to find! There is a second, even smaller, piece of gold on the specimen that I didn’t pick up until I...
Beautiful branching gold crystals on galena and quartz. Width of view 6.75mm. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny grains of gold in quartz, associated with native bismuth, bismuthinite and greenish namibite-beyerite. Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 7mm. Stack of 41 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
Patchy gold in iron-stained quartz. Ex Chris Ah Yee. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dendritic crystalline gold without matrix. Precise mine not known. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Aquired by Joan from Norman Robinson in 1986 at the Loxton Gemboree, South Australia, for $5. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of...
Labelled “Nhillinghoo”. Should be spelled Nillinghoo. Probably from Kirkeeks. Gold in goethite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 53 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small gold pieces in serpentine. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 41 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small bits of gold on galena and quartz. It is possible that other sulphides/sulphosalts such as boulangerite(?) are also present. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 49 images....
Hackly gold on and in matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Tony Fraser. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 48 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny hackly gold. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Jo Price. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 37 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small patches of gold in reef quartz. A golden bird up top? And a Remote Bogger in the middle? Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Don McColl. Specimen measures 4x2x2.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Click on...
Small gold pieces on ironstone matrix. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A 2mm wide gold crystal with a face! Pareidolia! Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Pareidolia is defined as the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. It is...
Coarsely crystalline gold in white quartz. Chris Ah Yee. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A tiny speck of gold in quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 34 images. This would be one of the deposits/short-lived mines of the village of Moonee Beach. Click on the image below for...
Hackly silver-rich gold in fluorite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hackly silver-rich gold in mostly grey fluorite with a hint of purple. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small speck of gold in iron ore. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled simply “Plateau Mining Co., Ecuador”, this specimen came from a collection acquired by Richard Bell. Obviously, Plateau Mining Co. isn’t a locality, but a company, so the starting point is simply Ecuador. After a...
Bright thin leaf gold sitting up from matrix.
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...
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
Flattened alluvial gold. John Betts.
Waverley Show 2017
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Coarse hackly gold on contact edge of quartz reef
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.
JL1374. Geoff Randall $5
JL1376. Geoff Randall $5
JL0337. Arthur Roffey $12
JL0179. Ex Museum Vic
JL0236. Ex Museum Vic
JL0514. Michael Newnham $5
Ex Jack Nelson Collection
Yellowish silvery white calaverite with black coloradoite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
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.
Tiny brown puffballs of kuranakhite with dark yellow gold and silver tellurium
Sponge gold on a soft mineral (steatite?). Locality is likely Cox’s Find, a historical goldfield some 65km north of Laverton to the east of Leinster. Width of view 5.75mm. Click on the image below for...
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.
