Fluorite & Quartz from the Rex Hill Mine, Rossarden, Tasmania, Australia.
Crocoite on Pyromorphite from the Platt Prospect, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Axinite-(Fe) from the Avebury Nickel Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Crocoite on Pyromorphite from the Platt Prospect, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Quartz (Var: Agate) from Lune River, Huon Valley, Tasmania, Australia.
Chabazite and Stilbite on Calcite from Giblin Street Quarry, Lenah Valley, Tasmania, Australia. Circa 1980.
Hematite included Quartz from Mount Heemskirk, West Coast, Tasmania, Australia.
Phillipsite with minor Thompsonite from Gads Hill, Mersey Valley, Tasmania, Australia.
Vughy piece of Dolomite with disseminated brown/black Sphalerite, with scattered gemmy crystals – mined in late 1980’s when the mine was operational, reworking of old stopes. Great South…
Datolite and Calcite from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
Twinned Chalcopyrite crystal from Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Tasmania, Australia.
Twinned Chalcopyrite crystal from Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Tasmania, Australia.
Chalcopyrite on Hematite and Chlorite included Quartz from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Hematite included Quartz from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Cerussite (Var: Chrome) and Crocoite from the Kapi Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Chlorite, Dolomite on Quartz from Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Witherite on Harmatome from Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. 21cm wide.
Crocoite from the Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Pyrite and Galena from the Comstock Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Hematite included Quartz from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Pyrosmalite-(Fe) from the early 1960’s find in Browne’s Section on the 13 level of the Junction Mine. This find is described in Birch ed (1999) Minerals of Broken…
Baryte on Manganoan Calcite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Rhodonite with Galena from the North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Plumbian Orthoclase from the North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Bustamite in Galena from the Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Native Silver wires on Gypsum from the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Pyromorphite from the Blackwood Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Bustamite in Apophyllite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Native Lead and Laumonite from the South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Large ‘V’ twinned Cerussite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Cassiterite with Quartz from the Aberfoyle Tin Mine, Rossarden, Tasmania, Australia.
Cassiterite on Quartz with Muscovite from the Oakleigh Creek Mine, Upper Forth Valley, Tasmania, Australia.
Rhodochrosite (Var: Zincorhodochrosite) from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Bustamite and Galena from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Baryte from the Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. These were sometimes refereed to as corn flake Barytes by the locals.
Native Copper from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Beryl with Sellaite, Magnesite and rare Ferroaluminoceladonite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
A small purple Fluorite crystal with Quartz on Sphalerite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
Quartz and Rhodochrosite from the B lens orebody in the upper levels of the Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. These were found in the early 1980’s.
Calcite from the Don Hill road cutting, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia – produced during road works in 1986.
White Tacharanite with pinkish brown Gyrolite and clear Apophyllite on Phillipsite from Coates Pit, Oonah, Tasmania, Australia.
Dark red inclusions of Metacinnabar in Baryte from the Rudges Mine, Tasmania, Australia. FOV is ~5mm.
An old ore sample containing Tetrahedrite, Pyrite, Arsenopyrite and Bismuthinite – probably from the Curtin-Davis mine, Ringville, Tasmania, Australia.
Fluorite on Dolomite from the Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Crocoite on Limonite from the West Comet Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Certainly not the finest Crocoite specimen you’ll ever encounter but an interesting locality piece.
Petterdite (TL), Philipsbornite (TL), Grimaldiite, Crocoite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Two intersecting sprays of Calcite pseudomorphing Aragonite from a large vugh found in 1999 on the 1530m R.L, Bruny Orebody, Renison Bell Tin Mine, Renison Bell, Tasmania, Australia.
Witherite and Harmatome from Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
Vivianite crystals to 40mm from the Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania, Australia. Most of these were salvaged in the late 1970’s from a small pocket in the face…
Boulangerite on Rhodochrosite from Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. These were found in the early 1980’s, mostly in the B lens orebody from the upper levels of the…
Baryte crystals found in the late 1970’s, 5 North, G Lens, 15 Level of the Rosebery Lead/Zinc Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
10mm Baryte crystal with minor Chalcopyrite, Quartz and Dolomite from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
A mesh of Jamesonite crystals filling a small vug on massive Sphalerite from Mt Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. Field of View is ~4mm.
White crusts and small globules of Dypingite with some light green Zaratite on Serpentine from the Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia.
Dundasite on Crocoite from the Kapi Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite from the Don Hill road cutting, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia. This piece measures 19x8x4 cm and was recovered during road works in 1986.
Witherite crystals from the Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
14mm Siderite on Calcite with black Hisingerite from Bridgewater, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Chabazite (Var: Phacolite) crystals, a lens-shaped variety due to twinning/multiple twinning of rhombohedrons. This piece is from Gads Hill, Mersey Valley, Tasmania, Australia.
Small crystals of Chalcopyrite and a dusting of Hematite on Siderite with Chlorite included Quartz from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite (Var: Iceland Spar) from Beams Quarry, Flowery Gully, Tasmania, Australia.
Siderite on Fluorite from Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
Quartz with dark to silvery, hair-like, Boulangerite needles on a Quartz and Rhodochrosite rich matrix – these were found in the early 1980’s, mostly in the B lens…
Calcite from Liena, Mole Creek, Tasmania, Australia. These were collected in the 1970’s and are often mislabelled as coming from the Wilmot Hydro Tunnel – this was to…
“Straw” Cerussite from the Comet Maestries Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. ~70mm in length.
Serpentine Subgroup (Var: Picrolite) from Tunnel Hill Quarry, Serpentine Hill, North Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Franckeite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
Brochantite, Woodwardite, Posnjakite on Covellite, Chalcopyrite and Digenite from Murrays Reward Mine, Balfour, Tasmania, Australia.
Epidote crystals from the Anthony Headrace Tunnel, Tullah, Tasmania, Australia. Found in veins associated with the Cambrian Murchison Granites. Sourced in the 1990’s during the tunnel’s construction.
Axinite-(Fe) from Colebrook Hill, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. Largest crystal is 30mm. Largest crystal is 30mm.
Botryoidal Dundasite with minor Crocoite from the Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Crocoite from Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Crocoite on Pyromorphite from the Platt Prospect, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite (uncommon from this location) on Quartz from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Fluorite from Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Hematite included Quartz, Dolomite, Chlorite, Hematite and Chalcopyrite from 1540m R.L Traverse Drive 12, Prince Lyell Mine, Queenstown, Tasmania. Measures approximately 190mm across. Discovered circa 2006.
An uncommon specimen, collected in the late 1990s, of Native Copper in sandstone from the historic Lyell Blocks, Mount Lyell, Tasmania, Australia.
Quartz with Hematite inclusions from Mount Read, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
Aragonite from the Don Hill road cutting, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia. This was recovered during road works in 1986.
Hematite included Quartz with Hematite coating the reverse side of the specimen entirely (not visible in photo). From 1540 level, Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Tasmania, Australia. 110mm…
White radiating Aragonite on a serpentine matrix from the Nickel Reward Mine, Trial Harbour, Tasmania, Australia.
Fluorite, Calcite and Quartz w/ minor Chalcopyrite and Hematite from the Prince Lyell Mine, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia. FOV is ~ 40mm.