3458 VHD8 Topaz, Killiecrankie, Flinders Island, Tasmania
A waterworn bluish topaz 24mm wide.
A waterworn bluish topaz 24mm wide.
Single pale blue crystal 9mm tall. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon #T8. Acquired by them from “Glad” (Rangott?, Jackson?). Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Lustrous colourless topaz with black rutile. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
An interesting little specimen of topaz that measures just 24mm in width. Ex Mike New Collection.
Blue-tinted topaz in rhyolite. May be coloured by what is under it. Collected by Mike Reinke. Width of view 1.75mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Tiny blue jeremejevite with white sodalite, colourless prismatic topaz and colourless/grey sanidine. Hematite also on specimen. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Pale peach/pink coloured topaz 38x35x26mm. Found by Rich Fretterd during an episode of The Prospectors. See article in Minerals Newspaper.
Single colourless crystal measuring 20x20x23mm.
A waterworn blue topaz, 43x25x23mm. Ex Peter Mostert. Click on the link below for a higher resolution version.
Sharp crystals of cassiterite ranging in colour from yellow through grey and brown to black, some zoned, with white topaz (to the right and slightly below the main cassiterite crystal) and green torbernite (not in...
Dark brown cassiterite crystals and an iron-stained topaz crystal (centre top) embedded in a corroded greisen matrix. Width of view 9.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Slightly iron-stained topaz crystals in vugh in a vein. Width 50mm. Closeup photo width of view 5mm. Stack of 60 images.
A single black bixbyite with pale pinkish topaz crystals. Width 11mm. Stack of 140 images. Ex Ted Johnson. Labelled as from Delta, Utah.
Ex Jack Nelson Collection
Single gemmy colourless crystal, Hobart Show 2017
Topaz cut to look like diamond. Siezed in 2009 by Canadian Government., Kerry Day, KGD Minerals
Double-terminated., Walstrom Mineral Enterprises, Carson City, Nevada
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection, Peter Beckwith, Crystal Habit
Single crystal. Ex Dave Bunk Minerals., Jim Mcewan, Lehigh Minerals
Two bluish green topaz crystals on a quartz matrix. Minor arsenopyrite, muscovite and purple fluorite. 45x45x30mm. #520679.
Prismatic and acicular topaz crystals, with opal coating tridymite, and also capping one of the topaz crystals, from the Conca Cannas quarry, Masullas, Mt. Arci, Oristano Province, Sardinia, Italy.