Tiny smithsonite crystals on interpenetrant fluorite and bladed barite crystals, on quartz. Acquired from Philip Grounds, Bay Minerals, in 2012. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a...
Specimen acquired in the micromount room at the Tucson Show. Ex Bob Jenkins. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Zoned crystals of brookite in small cavities in quartz. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Sceptred amethyst. Sceptre is 11mm wide. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Interesting textures. Specimen is 34mm wide. Ex Bart Cannon. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Hematite in quartz giving it the lovely red colour. Specimen is 25mm tall.
Doubly-terminated colourless quartz crystal with iron staining. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 10 images.
Originally purchased from Marino Cristofli, a former miner from Dimbulah on 13th June 1996. Ex Martin Jensen Collection number MJ3254. 34x22x20mm. Pink-red fluorescence.
A lot of collectors like fluorite. Whether it be for the isometric (cubic) symmetry (for those that might be a little obsessive-compulsive 😁), the range of colours and zoning, the fluorescence, or for other reasons....
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2003 from John Haupt. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 55 images.
Quite a bit going on here. In the centre is light blue aurichalcite on a darker blue hemisphere of rosasite (there is a second hemisphere behind and to the left as well). In front to...
A coated hexagonal prism of fluorapatite from the Pyramid Hill granite Quarry, Victoria. Not as pretty as the Lake Boga ones. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 10 images. Click on the image below for...
Ankerite with colourless prismatic quartz and minor chalcopyrite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Brian Beyer at the Adelaide Mineralogical Society Seminar for $1.00. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 60 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2001 from a Tailgater at the Wagga Gemboree.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from the Holland Micro Group.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Judy Rowe. Collected by Judy and Stan Rowe in May, 1985.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999 from the Holland Micro Group.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Ex Museum Victoria.
Ex Museum Victoria, acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Width of view 2.5mm.
Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 90 images.
A single blue anatase crystal on a specimen containing dark green chlorite, orange-brown cassiterite, white albite and colourless quartz. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. The label on the base of the box is in...
Blue anatase crystals with orange rutile needles on albite and quartz. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
Rings and curved crystals of boulangerite on pink rhodochrosite. Header image width of view is 5mm. Stack of 110 images. Second image is an old one, width of view 2.5mm and stack of 12.
Sharp prismatic green crystals with quartz, dark green chlorite, and unknown pink balls. Height of view 5mm. Stack of 60 images. Locality not specifically in Mindat. Maltatal is a river north of Malta.
Collected… Also ended up having minor surgery after this collecting trip. A piece of chisel ended up embedded in my wrist!
Colourless crystal, main one being 35mm long.
Reddish brown goethite botryoidal matrix hosting colourless quartz crystals. Width of view 18mm. Stack of 240 images. Ex Lundgren Collection.
Green prismatic epidote with apparent paler tips, white prismatic flattened crystals of laumontite, and green platelets of pumpellyite. Small colourless quartz crystals. Width 9mm, stack of 78 images (epidote). Width 4.5mm, stack of 30 images...
Zoned yellow and brown sphalerite crystals with colourless rhombs of dolomite and colourless round groups of quartz crystals. A couple of very pale yellow sphalerite crystals exhibit an unusual pinkish fluorescence. Width 9mm. Stack of...
Colourless crystals. Width 11mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Greyish-yellow monazite with yellow-orange anatase, colourless quartz and white apatite. The apatite fluoresces a pinkish white. Width 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp bluish crystals of anatase on quartz. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 52 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
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.
A single purple octahedral crystal of fluorite (fluorescent) with golden sprays of goethite on quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 110 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Purple cookeite, rare according to Tom Klinepeter. Width 9mm. Stack of 66 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Pale blue needles on quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
A lot going on here. Orange phantoms in quartz crystals. These are coated in white drusy quartz. Then there are colourless quartz scepters. But not just at the tips. There are tiny little sceptres ALONG...
Pale pink morganite beryl, labelled as Pakistan but identified as Pech by Rocksaholics. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $290.
Terminated crystals of blue beryl with colourless crystals of sellaite and quartz. Fluorite was picked up by fluorescence under longwave ultraviolet. A yellow-orange fluorescence may be non-crystalline sellaite. In the fluorescent photos, there are also...
Quartz and hematite pseudomorph after an epidote crystal coated with tiny quartz crystals. MinID RMK-561. Video best viewed full screen.
Slender quartz crystal with goethite inclusions and unknown black rhombohedral species. Video best viewed full screen.
Complex black sphalerite with orange coated quartz crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
Hematite inclusions in amethyst. Video best viewed full screen.
Tiny white calcite on yellowish calcite, chalcopyrite partially covered by sphalerite, and quartz and colourless fluorite. Video best viewed full screen.
Sharp cassiterite crystals. Video best viewed full screen.
Rhodochrosite epimorphs after ?? With tiny quartz crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Pale yellow fluorite cubes, blue under longwave UV, with siderite on and in. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Pink rhodochrosite with small white crystals (kutnohorite?). These white crystals are also included in the quartz. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Group of platy hematite crystals. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
White spiky balls of calcite on quartz. Fluorescent pink.
A group of parallel oriented sharp black ferberite crystals on a cloudy quartz crystal with a clear tip.
Blocky malachite crystals on cuprite and quartz.
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Roger Colling Collection
Ex Keith Williams, Williams Minerals. LB Collection.
Red realgar crystal altering to yellow orpiment on a nest of quartz crystals with a dusting of pyrite.
Unknown Mexican locality. Suggestions welcomed!
Cluster of colourless quartz crystals.
Tiny anatase crystals (arrowed) on quartz with hematite inclusions.
Two greenish opaque quartz crystals joined together. Not smooth faces.
Brown ball on quartz matrix. Minor pyrite present. Ex Elena van Schriver.
Cream flattened calcite crystals on tapering quartz crystals.
Cluster of colorless-white quartz crystals. Collected by Tim Greenland in Spring, 1968.
Herkimer-like quartz crystals on matrix. Ex Milton Lavers Collection No. C38.
Lustrous purple “Grape Agate” with colourless-white calcite crystals, 60mm wide. From Joe George, aka The Scepter Guy, cascadescepters.com.
Stalactite of black crystals of sphalerite with a quartz crystal and minor pyrite on a few sphalerite crystal terminations, 58mm wide.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
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.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Ex Ron Wallace, ex Graham Lee. Monochrome photo.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Collected by Bjorn Skar, Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Labelled as Paratacamite, Richard Bell
Ex John Lewis collection.
Drusy colourless crystals, Jim Daly, Sauktown Sales, Indiana
Ex John Lewis collection.
Mn-calcite/Ca-rhodochrosite pseudomorphing kutnohorite, Self-collected
Mn-calcite/Ca-rhodochrosite pseudomorphing kutnohorite, Self-collected
Labelled as limonite after sphalerite, Barry Schubert
Ex John Lewis collection.,
Pinkish raspite (single crystal), cream chamosite balls, prismatic arsenopyrite, including some partial trillings, colourless fluorite, well-formed chalcopyrite crystals and colourless quartz crystals. Ex Wolfgang Henkel.
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Museum Victoria.
Hemispheres of quartz (described as chalcedony, but not) with grey stilbite.
Chlorite and anatase inclusions in thin needle-like quartz. Minor white albite on quartz. Tiny brown rutile(?) on one quartz crystal.
A few white calcite crystals on drusy quartz.
White quartz overgrown smoky quartz.
A stunning colourless fluorapophyllite with a pink stilbite crystal all sitting on drusy quartz. The apophyllite measures 45mm across. Not my photo.
White quartz overgrown smoky quartz.
Weird ribcage growth of quartz.
Beta style quartz crystals with a smoky tint, with hematite as inclusions, and larger hematite blades alongside. Ex Roger Colling Collection #58.
Multiple Japan-Law twins. Ex Marylin Dodge Collection. See http://www.irocks.com/minerals/specimen/3973
Cluster of gemmy colourless quartz crystals. Ex Roger Colling Collection #375. Probably collected down hill east of the Victoria Tower mine in the 1980s (Murray Thompson personal communication).
Perfectly-formed wurtzite crystals, doubly-terminated quartz, plus other sulphides? Purchased at Keystone, priced at $500.
Cluster of doubly-terminated quartz crystals with unknown black minerals. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $12.
The Rocket. Group of beta-quartz like crystals that looks like a rocket ready for lift-off.
Lovely cluster of colourless quartz crystals in parallel growth. Labelled as Jebel Imalo, Imilchil, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
Lovely cluster of colourless quartz crystals. Previous label – Dave Bunk Minerals with a $40 price tag – 5/05 Costa Mesa. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $50.
Attractive cluster of chlorite-included quartz. 73x47x47mm.
Matrix of quartz with individual colourless crystals to 13mm (largest doubly terminated). Specimen 53x40x20mm.
From Greg Dainty: This piece was collected, and labeled, by Norman Robinson, from an old exploration trench. Its hard to figure out exactly whats going on here, there is what appears to be chrysocolla replacing...
Sharp crystals of sphalerite and galena. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $24.
Purple hexagonal apatite crystals on a pale smoky quartz with tourmaline inclusions and minor pyrite.
Many patches of gold in crystaline quartz with a few stannite crystals.
Old Foote specimen with Foote label on the back. Labelled as Sonoma Co.” but based on the crystal habit (divergent sprays of red crystals) and the matrix
Quartz pseudomorph after barite. Ex Brother Juan Salvador, FMS, a volunteer at the AMNH in the 1880s. His card apparently read One of the great treasures of my collection, 16/7/1884. Ex American Museum of Natural...
Purple cubes of fluorite on double quartz crystals. 57x35x22mm. #500640.
Two bluish green topaz crystals on a quartz matrix. Minor arsenopyrite, muscovite and purple fluorite. 45x45x30mm. #520679.
Small doubly-terminated quartz crystal with petroleum inclusions, many with bubbles (enhydros).
Clear quartz crystal with inclusions collected by Pierre Joubert on a friend’s farm near Ceres.
Collected by Pierre Joubert. Vredendal is pronounced with an F” sound.”
Collected by Pierre Joubert. Vredendal is pronounced with an F” sound.”
K & M Brown Collection
K & M Brown Collection
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Joan Lamond Micro Collection 2006
Collected by Andrew Tuma 2006
Herkimer – Larry Rush 12/05
Herkimer – Larry Rush 12/05
Herkimer – Larry Rush 12/05
Dan Weinrich (ex Don Belcher coll’n)
Flattened pale smoky quartz.
Self Collected 2005
