Barry Porter “typical of the Reaphook Hill geodes, a lot dug in the 80s, had to walk a few ks from the Scholzite deposit until we found a 4wd track in. Very hard slaty rock...
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Purple fluorite crystals on quartz
Quartz epimorph after sphalerite(?) with lustrous sphalerite crystals.
Colourless capped green elbaite on side of quartz crystal 44x26x25mm.
Ex Joan Lamond 3156, received as a gift from Frank Robinson in 1986. Drusy quartz coats azurite crystals. One or two are pseudomorphs of malachite after azurite.
A quartz pseudomorph after barite. Purchased at the 2013 Ballarat Gem Show.
Identification confirmed by Jim Sharpe (XRD)
Golden brown spray of goethite on quartz. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 56 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Masses of creamy plates of paratellurite with yellow tellurite
Collected when I was working in Alice Springs.
A very unusual occurrence of faden quartz, not normally found in Tasmania. “Faden” refers to the German for thread and relates to the white thread running through the two crystals, top left to bottom right.
3844 Smoky Quartz Rabbit, Anderson’s Gully (Anderson’s Creek), Mooralla, Southern Grampians Shire, Victoria
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A mixture of Mn-rich calcite-Ca-rich rhodochrosite pseudomorphing kutnohorite, sitting on drusy quartz crystals. According to Ralph Bottrill, analyses showed Mn40Ca60 and Mn75Ca25 from XRD. This specimen is quite pale compared to others found on a field trip...
A pyrite crystal is perched on orange-red sphalerite, on a bed of colourless quartz crystals, from the Eagle Picher Mine, Cardin, Picher Field, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma, USA.
Monazite-(Ce) crystals make up most of the matrix of this specimen from Cow Flat (Bower Bird), Torrington, Clive Co., New South Wales. A couple of smoky quartz crystals are embedded. Ex Australian Museum, Sydney.
One of the most iconic smoky quartz localities in Australia, Mooralla, Southern Grampians Shire, Victoria. This locality, which is a designated fossicking area, has produced many stunning smoky quartz specimens since the 1960s. They occur...
Colourless and purple fluorite cubes and colourless quartz crystals on white barite. Minor yellow wulfenite. Unknown black needles.
