Dark tabular barite crystals on a fragment of hematite matrix. Ex George Reimherr Collection. 15mm wide.
Collected… Also ended up having minor surgery after this collecting trip. A piece of chisel ended up embedded in my wrist!
Hexagonal pale-coloured prism of synchisite (label says Ce, but Mindat shows this as questionable), with silver hexagonal plates of hematite. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 56 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Brown grossular garnet crystals in vughs with trigonal hematite crystals. Acquired by Joan in 1994 from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree. With 9mm. Stack of 60 images.
Sharp orange-red crystal groups and single crystal. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
Quartz and hematite pseudomorph after an epidote crystal coated with tiny quartz crystals. MinID RMK-561. Video best viewed full screen.
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.
Group of platy hematite crystals. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
Tiny anatase crystals (arrowed) on quartz with hematite inclusions.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Unlikely locality based on Mindat
Beta style quartz crystals with a smoky tint, with hematite as inclusions, and larger hematite blades alongside. Ex Roger Colling Collection #58.
Group of hematite crystals. 33x28x21mm. Ex Eugene Carmichael (3002). Ex George English (North Carolina label). Number on label matches specimen.
Nice zoned yellow-white ettringite, superb colourless calcite, reddish andradite and minor hematite.
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Harry Critchley.
Flat topped colourless prisms of calcite on matrix. The underside has acicular millerite (rare at this location) and hematite. Ex Aug Kranz hand-written label carbonate of lime. Ex A. Kranz in Bonn, Oct 23. Ex...
Found in driveway gravel
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
Intense blue fluorite cubes on massive brown hematite with tiny colourless quartz crystals in cavities in the hematite
A E Seaman Mineral Museum (Donor T Lipton Hancock)
Purchased at my first Tucson show for $4.00.
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Harry Critchley.
Labelled as aragonite – is likely calcite. ex Harry Critchley. ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Judy Rowe.
Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand).
Hendersons Quarry, Mount Ngongotaha, Rotorua District, Bay of Plenty Region (Te Moana-a-Toi), North Island, New Zealand Photo width 11mm View Larger Map | Get Directions
Melkovite, U-Mo occurrence, Shunak Mts, Mointy Railway Station, Mointy, Balkhash Region, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan. Type Locality. Certified (microprobe analyzed) sulfur-yellow melkovite, a rare hydrous Ca-Fe phosphate-molybdate, known only from the single locality in the world....
