3088 Pyromorphite, Les Farges Mine, France
Pyromorphite | Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France | 60x40x30mm | No. 3088
Pyromorphite | Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France | 60x40x30mm | No. 3088
Karibibite, Scorodite | Oumlil Mine, Oumlil, Tansifite Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. FOV 3mm. No. 3077
Clinoclase, Chrysocolla | Dome Rock Copper Mine, Olary Province, South Australia.FOV 25mm. No. 1862
Clinobisvanite | Londonderry Li Deposit, Nepean, Western Australia. | FOV 15mm | No. 2672
Clinoclase, Chrysocolla, Cornwallite, Heterogenite | Dome Rock Copper Mine, Olary Province, South Australia. FOV 5mm. No. 0415
Clinochlore with Quartz | Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia | FOV 5mm | No. 2402
Calaverite & Gold – Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia. 50x25x25mm.
Pickeringite – Mount Bullengarook, Bullengarook, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia. 60x55x50mm.
Cavansite on Heulandite – Wagholi Quarry, Pune, Maharashtra, India. 100x60x50mm.
Beryl (Var: Aquamarine), Muscovite – Nagar District, Pakistan. 100x80x75mm.
Rhodochrosite – Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima, Peru. FOV 30mm.
Crocoite – Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania. FOV 50mm. No. 0536
Aragonite on Calcite from the Iron Princess, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. FOV 65mm. No 3041.
Coquimbite from the Javier Mine (Javier Ortega Mine), Huac-huas (Huacuas), Lucanas Province, Ayacucho, Peru. 25x20x15mm.
Orange brown grains of the very rare Cu-Fe-Sn sulphide mineral mawsonite from the type locality in Tasmania (Mount Lyell, Queenstown) in a matrix of massive chalcopyrite and minor sulphides. Analysed by and from the Vandenbroucke...
Sulvanite (Type Locality), Edelweiss Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia. Two specimens in same display box. Specimen (left) measures 15x13x10mm, specimen (right) is altering to malachite, vesignieite and volborthite and measures 35x25x15mm.
Newberyite (Type Locality), Mt Widderin Cave, Skipton, Victoria, Australia. 35x28x15mm.
Twinned Chabazite-Na, Calcite, Gonnardite, Thomsonite | Bundoora Quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia | FOV 25mm | No. 2592
Ferrierite-Mg | Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia | FOV 30mm | No. 2588
Takovite from the Carr Boyd Rocks Ni mine, Menangina Station, Menzies Shire, Western Australia. 45x35x25mm.
Chalcosiderite, Wavellite, Mt Oxide Mine, N of Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia. FOV 35mm.
Chalcophanite from the Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 25mm. No. 0161.
twinned Spodumene (Var: Kunzite) on Hydroxylherderite, from Nuristan, Afghanistan. 40x27x25mm. No. 2594.
Clay included Chabazite from Bronte Park, Tasmania, Australia. 20x20x15mm. No. 0592.
Holmquistite | Greenbushes Mine, Greenbushes Tinfield, Western Australia. FOV 45mm | No. 2951
Chlorargyrite from the South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [35x35x20mm]
Dark blue Shattuckite with blue-green Ajoite (Type Locality) | New Cornelia Mine (Ajo Mine), Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona , USA | 40x40x35mm | No. 2706
Seeligerite (yellow) with blue Christelite (TL) green Paratacamite, not readily visible in the photo is a micro crystal of orange-red Phoenicochroite, and some minor Herbertsmithite, Hemimorphite & Quartz. 50x35x25mm. From the San Francisco Mine (Beatrix...
Theisite, Hemimorphite and Veszelyite on Quartz | Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming, Yunnan, China | 60x35x30mm & FOV 20MM | No. 2941
Cuprodongchuanite (TL) with Veszelyite and Quartz. Light green possible Tyrolite or Theisite | Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming, Yunnan, China | FOV 20mm | No. 2644
Powellite (Var: Cupropowellite) | Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro mining district, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile | 55x40x20mm | No. 2656
Lindgrenite | San Samuel mine, Carrera Pinto, Atacama, Chile | FOV 20mm | No. 2646
Tourmaline (Var: Elbaite) | Keffi, Nasarawa, Nigeria | 15x4mm | No. 2950
The sample is a limonitic clay with mica, jarosite and gypsum with some poorly crystallised uranium minerals. The latter probably include Uranophane-β (fibrous), Schoepite (amorphous), Compreignacite (cuboid crystals) and other minerals as a complex mixture...
The sample is a limonitic clay with mica, jarosite and gypsum with some poorly crystallised uranium minerals. The latter probably include Uranophane-β (fibrous), Schoepite (amorphous), Compreignacite (cuboid crystals) and other minerals as a complex mixture...
Ulrichite (Type Locality) | Lake Boga Granite Quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia | FOV 5mm | No. 2095 |
Saléeite from Lake Boga Granite Quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia. FOV 4mm.
Saléeite from the Ranger Uranium Mine, Kakadu, Northern Territory, Australia. FOV 25mm.
Torbernite | Lake Boga Granite Quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia | FOV 45mm | No. 2150 |
The sample is a limonitic clay with mica, jarosite and gypsum with some poorly crystallised uranium minerals. The latter probably include Uranophane-β (fibrous), Schoepite (amorphous), Compreignacite (cuboid crystals) and other minerals as a complex mixture...
yellow Thorite (Var: Thorogummite), Zircon (Var: Cyrtolite), lustrous Fergusonite-(Y) | Mukinbudin Feldspar Quarries, Mukinbudin, Western Australia. 65x50x20mm
Torbernite | Lake Boga Granite Quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia | FOV 3mm | No. 1887 |
Sampleite | Lake Boga Granite Quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia | FOV 3mm | No. 2107 |
Elbaite with Muscovite and Albite | Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts, Skardu Dis., Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan | 45x35x25mm | No. 2183 |
Ulrichite (Type Locality) | Lake Boga Granite Quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia | FOV 3mm | No. 1888 |
Elbaite with Albite | Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts, Skardu Dis., Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan | 60x50x30mm | No. 2908 |
Sampleite | Lake Boga Granite Quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia | FOV 3mm | No. 1928 |
Hetaerolite | Beltana Mine, Puttapa, South Australia | FOV 4mm | No. 1934 |
Scapolite | Scapolite locality, Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India | 38x7x7mm | No. 1969 |
Tantalite-(Mn) on Elbaite with Albite | Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts, Skardu Dis., Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan | 40x30x30mm | No. 1941 |
Copper in/on Calcite with Epidote | Quincy Mine, Hancock, Houghton Co., Michigan, USA | 45x40x30mm | No. 2634
Spodumene (Var: Kunzite) | Mawi Pegmatite, Du Ab District, Nuristan, Afghanistan | 60x20x18mm | No. 1960 |
Native Silver (wire) | Brownes Shaft, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia | 15x10x8mm | No. 2544 |
Cuprite | Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia | FOV 10mm | No. 852 |
Pyromorphite | Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia | 20x15x12mm | No. 926 |
Hematite included Quartz with Hematite phantoms | Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia | FOV 40mm | No. 1449 |
Hematite included Quartz with Hematite phantoms and minor Chalcopyrite | Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia | 30x30x25mm | No. 0772 |
Hematite included Quartz with Hematite phantoms and minor Chalcopyrite inclusions | Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia | 25x18x10mm | No. 0771 |
Chalcopyrite crystals on Hematite included Quartz | Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia. | 35x30x30mm | No. 0758 |
Hematite included Quartz with Hematite phantoms | Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia | FOV 35mm | No. 0756 |
Hematite included Quartz with Hematite phantoms and minor Chalcopyrite | Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia | 25x20x15mm | No. 0734 |
Metacinnabar included Baryte | XXX, Tasmania, Australia | 25mm | No. 0250 |
Chalcopyrite included Baryte | Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia | 15mm | No. 0081 |
Conichalcite ps. Olivenite | FOV 25mm | Wiperaminga Hill West Quarry, Boolcoomatta Reserve (Boolcoomata Station), South Australia | No. 2546
Hematite “Iron Rose” | 20x20x20mm | Pizzo Lucendro, Lucendro Valley, Airolo, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland | No. 2598
Thomsonite, Chabazite (Var: Phacolite), Calcite, Phillipsite-(Na) | FOV 40mm | Bundoora Quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia | No. 2308
Olivenite with Gartrellite | 30x20x10mm | Tsumeb Mine, Oshikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia | No. 2482
Fibrous orange crystalline groups of Sursassite | FOV 20mm | Falotta, Tinizong (Tinzen), Surses, Albula Region, Grisons, Switzerland | No. 2480
Romanèchite | 40x40x20mm | Near Zeehan, West Coast, Tasmania, Australia | No. 1744 |
Spessartine | Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia | FOV 75mm | No. 1916 |
Gmelinite-(Na) with Analcime | Cairns Bay, Flinders Area, Victoria, Australia | 85x80x50mm | No. 2309
Gmelinite-(Na) with Natrolite & Analcime | Cairns Bay, Flinders Area, Victoria, Australia | 65x30x30mm | No. 0798
Gmelinite-(Na) with Analcime | Cairns Bay, Flinders Area, Victoria, Australia | FOV 50mm | No. 2060
Spessartine on Quartz | Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian Province, China | 75x70x20mm | No. 1606 |
Quartz on Chrysocolla on Chalcedony? | Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia | 70x60x40mm | No. 2089
Gmelinite-(Ca), Analcime | Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia | FOV 90mm | No. 2879 |
Bournonite, Tetrahedrite & Quartz | Julcani Mine, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica, Peru | 55x45x25mm | No. 2508 |
Spessartine on Quartz | Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian Province, China | 100x70x25mm | No. 2899 |
White “cap” Microcline (Var: Amazonite) | “Flat Rock”, Lake George, Crystal Peak, Colarado, USA | 50x30x25mm | No. 1605 |
Stilwellite-(Ce) | Mary-Kathleen Mine, Queensland, Australia | FOV 5mm | No. 0474
Cobaltite | Avebury Nickel Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia | FOV 30mm | XRD Analysed | No. 2653 |
Graphite (Var: Cliftonite) | Youndegin meteorite, Quairading Shire, Western Australia | 1mm | No. 2317 | Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection – Waregem, Belgium. |
Orange Raspite associated with yellowish Stolzite and green Cuprotungstite, label also records cuprian (Copper Bearing) Scheelite, but this is probably Cuprotungstite. Cordillera Mine, Tuena, Georgiana County, New South Wales, Australia. 10x10x10mm. Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection.
Greenockite , Galena, Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series, Pyrite, Cerussite | Woodlawn Mine, Tarago, Murray Co., New South Wales, Australia. FOV 5mm.
Carrboydite, 132 North NI Mine, Widgiemooltha, Western Australia. 55x35x10mm.
Lemon-white Kimrobinsonite from the type locality – Forrestania Gold Project / Forrestania Rubellite pegmatite,Mount Holland, Western Australia. Ex Dieter Nickolay collection. Field of view is ~1.5mm.
A small metallic grain (0.5mm) of Native Tin from the Aberfoyle River, Oban, Clark County, New South Wales, Australia. Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection.
Alunite from the Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia. FOV 30mm.
Orpiment on Enargite from the Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad, Peru. 70x50x40mm.
Crandallite, Millisite (white) from the Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia. FOV 15mm.
Gmelinite-(Ca), Analcime | Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia | FOV 20mm | No. 2878 |
Cryptomelane from the Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia. 30x25x6mm.
Stilbite, Heulandite with Celadonite inclusions, Shakur Quarry, Nashik, Maharashtra, India. 90x80x35mm.
Collinsite and Calcite from the Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia. FOV 10mm.
Ilvaite with Calcite & Quartz from the 2nd Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia. 50x40x40mm.
Connellite, Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia. FOV 25mm.
Gmelinite-(Ca), Analcime | Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia | FOV 35mm | No. 2877 |
Gypsum | Balsa-Depositara Mine, Portman, La Unión, Spain | FOV 35mm | No. 2910 |
Scholzite, Parahopeite | Reaphook Hill, Martins Well, South Australia | 55x40x30mm | No. 2222 |
Cavansite on Heulandite, Wagholi Quarry, Pune, Maharashtra, India. FOV 45mm.
Bladed Valentinite crystals from the Xikuangshan Sb Deposit, Lengshujiiang, Hunan Prov., China. FOV 30mm.
Zoisite (Var: Tanzanite), Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Tanzania. 24x13x7mm.
Zoisite | Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. 32x10x4mm.
Pentagonite on Heulandite, Wagholi Quarry, Pune, Maharashtra, India. FOV 40mm.
Prehnite on Epidote, Kayes Region, Mali, West Africa. 47x35x25mm.
Gmelinite-(Ca), Analcime | Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 35mm.
Gmelinite-Ca, Analcime | Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 15mm.
Spodumene, Cattlin Creek South Mine (Mount Cattlin Lithium Mine; Cattlin Creek pegmatite), Ravensthorpe, Western Australia. 60x40x35mm.
Eucryptite pseudomorph after petalite, fluoresces begonia red under SW UV light. Londonderry Li deposit, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia. 30x40x25mm.
Cuprite (Var: Chalcotrichite) from the Sandy Flat Mine, Redbank, Northern Territory, Australia. FOV 40mm.
Thomsonite on Chabazite, Krui River, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 30mm.
Twinned rhombic Chabazite-ca crystals with minor Calcite on basalt matrix – FOV 50mm. Liawenee Canal, Central Tasmania, Australia.
‘Chabazite’ ‘var. Phacolite’ from Gad’s Hill, Mersey Valley, Tasmania. 110x70x65mm.
Cerussite and Cerussite (Var: Chrome) with Crocoite from the Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 50mm.
Cerussite on Dioptase, Sanda Hills occurrences, Mindouli, Mindouli District, Pool Department, Republic of the Congo. 27x28x20mm.
Secondary growth of yellow ‘chrome’ Cerussite crystals on a twinned larger Cerussite crystal from the Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 24x13x10mm.
Azurite, Malachite and a “V” Twin Cerussite from Block 14, South Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia. 30x20x20mm.
Cerussite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 35mm.
Cerussite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 23x15x15mm.
Cerussite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 15mm.
Cerussite, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 40mm.
Cerussite, Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 30mm.
“Straw” Cerussite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 130x100x60mm.
Cerussite (Var: Chrome) from the Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 30x25x25mm.
Cerussite (Var: Chrome) with minor Dundasite and Crocoite from the Kapi Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 45x35x15mm.
Cerussite and Crocoite, Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 20mm.
Cerussite (reticulated) from the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 55x45x25mm.
Anglesite on Cerussite, BHP Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 110x100x80mm.
Cerussite, Galena from the Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 35mm.
Cerussite on Malachite, Brown’s Prospect, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, Australia. 40x40x30mm.
Large ‘V’ twinned Cerussite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 80x50x35mm.
Cerussite (Var: Chrome), Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. 35x30x10mm.
Cerussite, Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 30x25x15mm.
Pyrrhotite with Calcite, Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia. 65x50x40mm.
Fluorite on Sphalerite | Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Tennessee, USA | 45x43x40mm | No. 2495
Hopeite on Goethite | Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill Mine), Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia. | Water clear sharp hopeite on goethite with minor pyromorphite. Specimen SEM-EDS confirmed. FOV 40mm.
Coloradoite a rare mercury telluride with Gold. Originally from the Spencer Cook collection, Spencer was a publican in Kalgoorlie around the 1900s, this was then acquired by the South Australian Museum, who did the XRD...
Covellite | Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia | 20x18x10mm | No. 2400
Wulfenite on Calcite | Los Lamentos Mts.,Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. | 35x33x30mm | No. 2510
Crocoite, Vauquelinite, Bindheimite | Red, elongated crocoite crystals up to 1.2 cm in length – accompanied by dark olive-green vauquelinite and yellowish, earthy bindheimite. This material comes from the find in the 1970’s in the...
White balls of Dawsonite on Kutnohorite (confirmed with XRD) | Narrabri Coal Mine, Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia | 26x16x6mm | No. 1833
Crusts of Blue Connellite with green Botallackite and Paratacamite on Copper ore from the Couta Mine, Western Tasmania, Australia. Described in the Australian Journal of Mineralogy Volume 5, issue 2. FOV 30mm.
Wollastonite, Pyrite, Magnetite | Browns Creek Mine, Cow Flat, Bathurst, NSW, Australia. 70x40x28mm. No. 1519.
Pyrrhotite with Calcite, Sphalerite & Quartz. The specimen was acquired direct from miners in 2004 and said to be from “2nd Sovetskii Mine” but appears to be consistent with specimens from the Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk,...
Chrysocolla | Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia. | 25x15x10mm | No. 2404
Chabazite-Na & Calcite | “Collingwood Quarry”, Clifton Hill, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia | FOV 60mm | No. 2625
Collinsite | Milgun Variscite Mine (Mount Deverell), Milgun Station, Western Australia. | FOV 50mm | No. 1138
Mountkeithite | Type Locality | MKD5 nickel deposit, Mount Keith, Wiluna Shire, Western Australia, Australia | FOV 10mm | No. 2584
Tantalite-(Mn), possibly Columbite-(Mn) (needs analysis to confirm), from Nuristan, Afghanistan. Crystal is 9mm across. No. 1942.
Chrysoberyl (Var: Alexandrite) | Carnaíba mining district, Pindobaçu, Bahia, Brazil. | FOV 25mm | No. 2599
Mesolite | Nashik, Nashik District, Maharashtra, India | FOV 25x40mm. | No. 2639 |
Valentinite | Xikuangshan Sb Dep, Lengshujiiang, Hunan Prov., China. | FOV 40mm | No. 1631
Rhodochrosite on Danburite | Charcas, Charcas Municipality, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. | 40x40x25mm | No. 2478
Prehnite casts after Laumontite | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. | 60x40x25mm | No. 1608
Mimetite | Tsumcorp Mine, Oshikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia. | 60x50x30mm | No. 2637
Spray of acicular Millerite crystals | Perseverance Ni Mine, Leinster, Western Australia| 43x30x10mm | No. 2604
Double terminated quartz crystal associated with Schorl and included with blue Riebeckite from a 2019 find in the Mohmad district | Mula Ghani Baba, Mohmad Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. FOV 40mm. No. 2316.
Hanksite (Type Locality) | Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA | 30x25x20mm | No. 2517 |
Dark grey-silver veins/aggregates of the rare and complex sulphide mineral Franckeite, in brown magnesite-siderite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania. 75x50x15mm. No. 2384.
Metaswitzerite, Calcite | Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia | 25x20x10mm | No. 2441 |
Carletonite (Type Locality) | Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | 11x8x8mm | No. 2321 |
Lazulite, Quartz | Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada | 80x40x20mm | No. 2638 |
Heulandite | Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, India | 55x45x15mm | No. 2200 |
Vesuvianite | Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada | 45x35x25mm | No. 2562 |
Hydrohonessite | 132 North NI Mine, Widgiemooltha, Western Australia | 51x35x31mm | No. 2621 |
Stichtite | from the Type Locality, Stichtite Hill, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia | 130x50x40mm | No. 1261 |
Stichtite , Aragonite, Chromite | Nevada Creek Prospect, North Dundas, Tasmania, Australia | 170x100x55mm | No. 1238
Brochantite on Quartz, Pinnacles Mine, Arkaroola, South Australia. FOV 15mm.
Catapleiite with Aegirine | Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada. 20x15x13mm. No. 2520.
Genthelvite on Calcite (Var: Manganoan) | Huanggang Mine, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China | 24x22x20mm | No. 2366
Arsentsumebite (Type Locality), minor Azurite | Tsumeb Mine, Oshikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia. 25x20x15mm. No. 2477.
Lepidolite on Tourmaline | Pederneira Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 32x13x10mm. No. 2564
Bustamite, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 90x45x25mm.
Zunyite with Hematite | Qalat Payeen, Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. 25x23x20mm. No. 2561.
Hubnerite, Pasto Bueno, Pampas District, Pallasca Province, Peru. 67x32x24mm.
Variscite (Var: Ferrian Variscite) from the Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. [27x12x9mm] No. 2439.
Black rounded aggregates of Tapiolite | Strelley Pegmatite, Strelley Station, Port Hedland Shire, Western Australia. 20x20x15mm. No. 2136.
Gonnardite & Chabazite var. Phacolite on Ferroan Calcite | Bundoora Quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia. 23x10x11mm. No. 2307.
Fluornatrocoulsellite (Type Locality) with Morinite, Albite and Siderite on Quartz and Fluorite from the the Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania, Australia. 28x23x19mm. No. 2572.
Fluorite from Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia. 30mm.
Turquoise, Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia. 23x18x14mm. No. 2436.
Crocoite with Pyromorphite from the Platt Prospect, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. FOV is 40mm and 70mm. Mined in 1972
Lévyne from Gads Hill, Upper Mersey Valley, Tasmania, Australia. Field of view 2mm. Yellowish brown globules are probably Nontronite. No. 0189.
Carrolite, minor Pyrite, on matrix from the Kamoya South Mine, Kambove, Katanga, Dem. Rep. of Congo. [27x24x15mm]
Malachite after Cuprite | Great Australia mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. 70x55x40mm. No. 2142.
White rhombs of Dolomite on a Chalcopyrite crystal from the 1800 level, of the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Tasmania, Australia. [59x39x34mm]
Pyromorphite on Coronadite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [55x50x15mm]
Wulfenite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [55x40x20mm]
Fluorapophyllite-(K) on Inesite, Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 13mm.
Emerald in Quartz from the Torrington mining district, Torrington, New South Wales, Australia. Longest Beryl crystal is 65mm long.
Micro Pyrite cubes on Calcite from the Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia. 45x45x30mm. No. 1201
Powellite on Stilbite from the Nasik Quarry, Maharashtra, India. 50x50x30mm. No. 1884.
Tetrahedrite from the Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad, Peru. 50x38x35mm. No. 2326.
Cobaltoan Smithsonite from the Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia. 45x35x20mm. No. 2163.
Individual rounded masses to 5mm of tanteuxenite-(Y) from Mineral Claim 790 Pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Western Australia.
Eosphorite | 20x9x7mm | Rondu Mine, Shengus, Haramosh Mts., Skardu Dis., Pakistan.
Brucite | 40x25x20mm | Wadh Mine, Khuzdar District, Baluchistan, Pakistan.
Fluoro-richterite | 35x25x18mm | Ladjuar Medam, Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan.
Hydroxylclinohumite | 15mm | Jikhan, Koksha Valley, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan.
Bastnaesite-(Ce) | 25mm | Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.
Apatite after Tarbuttite with Hemimorphite | Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Oranjemund, Karas Region, Namibia. [42x30x25mm]
Benitoite (blue) & Neptunite (black) with Natrolite (white) | California State Gem Mine, Santa Rita Peak, New Idria Mining District, California, San Benito Co., USA. [40x25x20mm]
Vivianite | Huanuni Mine, Huanuni, Oruro, Bolivia. 25x20x10mm.
Creedite on Quartz with a scattering of small Fluorite cubes | Qinglong Mine (Dachang Mine), Dachang Sb ore field, Qinglong County, Qianxinan, Guizhou, China. 40x30x20mm
Bright purple micro crystals of Sugilite from the Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa. 70x45x35mm.
Cinnabar on Dolomite | Chatian Mine, Xiangxi, Hunan Province, China. FOV 10cm. Originally acquired from a dealer of Chinese minerals at Tuscon in 2000.
Beyerite associated with Namibite | Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia, Australia. FOV 5mm.
Bermanite with Hausmannite? | Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia, Australia. FOV 5mm.
Beraunite, Cacoxenite, Variscite, Strengite from Moculta Phosphate Quarry (Klemm’s Quarry), Angaston, Barossa Valley, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia. FOV 5mm.
Olmiite on Quartz | N’Chwaning #2 Mine, Kuruman, South Africa. 20x20x15mm.
Wulfenite | La Morita Mine, Ascencion Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. 18mm.
Last one for the evening. Bismuth from Kingsgate, Gough Co., New South Wales, Australia. 13z12x5mm.
Alstonite from the P-K Lens, Rosebery Mine, Tasmania, Australia. Alstonite is a rare Barium Carbonate mineral. FOV 30mm.
Boulangerite on Rhodochrosite, Quartz | Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 50mm.
Vivianite from Wannon Falls, Wannon River, Wannon, Victoria, Australia. [70x62x48mm] No. 2355.
Long slender green translucent Vivianite crystal from Wannon Falls, Wannon River, Wannon, Victoria, Australia. [97x11x7mm]. No. 2322.
White Sanbornite (Type Locality), Gillespite (red) with Celsian (whitish/translucent) from Trumbull Peak, Incline, Mariposa Co, California, USA. [53x25x5mm] No. 2324.
Beryl (Var: Emerald) | Torrington mining district, Torrington, NSW, Australia. 17x5x5mm.
Jeremejevite | Mile 72, Cape Cross area, Arandis, Erongo region, Namibia. [13×1.5mm] No. 2325.
Serandite with Aegirine from Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada. [10x5mm] No. 2323.
Variscite (Var: Ferrian Variscite) from the Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. 40x30x15mm. No. 806.
Cyrilovite, Kidwellite, StrengiteIron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.[35x30x15mm]
Libethenite | Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, South Australia, Australia. FOV 40mm.
Iodargyrite | Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Cabinet.
Staurolite | Thackaringa, Broken Hill District, New South Wales, Australia. Cabinet.
Copper from Rocklands Group Copper Project, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. Miniature.
One last post for the evening. A mixture of manganoan Calcite and calcic Rhodochrosite pseudomorphing Kutnohorite on Quartz and Magnetite | from Kara #1 Pit, Kara Mines, Hampshire district, Tasmania. FOV is 40mm.
Pale blue bladed Paratooite-(La) (TL) with white balls of Kamphaugite-(Y) | Paratoo Copper Mine, Yunta, South Australia. FOV ~5mm.
Specimen with many intense green crystalline aggregates/balls of nullaginite on matrix from the 132 North NI Mine, Widgiemooltha, Western Australia. FOV 15mm.
White hemispheres of Kimuraite-(Y) on soft actinolite skarn from the upper oxidized zone in the Kara No.1 Pit, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 17mm.
Barbosalite (black) and minor Pyrite Columbite | Wiperaminga Hill West Quarry, Boolcoomatta Reserve (Boolcoomata Station), South Australia, Australia. 50x35x25mm.
Triplite series (brown), Barbosalite (black) and microscopic Columbite | Wiperaminga Hill West Quarry, Boolcoomatta Reserve (Boolcoomata Station), South Australia, Australia. 90x75x65mm.
Bright iridescent (native) Copper in massive silvery-red Cuprite, with traces of Malachite. Copper specimens collected during the last mining period of this mine, were like this one, included within massive Cuprite. Burra Burra Mine, Burra,...
Goslarite | Tasmanian Smelting Company (Slag Heap), Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia. 37x30x12mm.
Szmikite | Womobi Mine, Thologolong, Victoria, Australia. 47x23x12mm.
Chalcocite | Mammoth Mine, Mount Gordon, Queensland, Australia. 21x20x15mm.
Epidote with Magnetite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania. 24x17x12mm.
Cuprite from the Moonta Mines, Moonta, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Collected in 1913. Ex South Australian Museum, ex Paul Melville collection. [13x12x10mm].
Fine silver-grey needle-like crystals of Stibnite in milky-white Quartz | Costerfield Reef (Main Reef), Costerfield, Victoria, Australia. FOV is 20mm.
Azurite on Beaverite-(Cu) | Mineral Hill, Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia. FOV is 60mm.
Specimen with white crystalline aggregates of Beaverite-(Cu) and some associated yellow-orange tabular crystals of Wulfenite on matrix | Whim Creek Copper Mine, Whim Creek, Western Australia. 22×17×16 mm.
Azurite on Quartz | Wheal Barton Mine, North Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia. FOV 40mm. (No. 2082)
Diaphorite, Pyargyrite, Arsenopyrite | Rockvale Arsenic Mine, Rockvale, NSW, Australia. Ex Proff. Laurie Lawrence (Aus) specimen. Dark grey areas amid pyargyrite and arsenopyrite. Determined by XRD. See: Lawrence, L.J.; Chand, F., (1962). Ore minerals of...
Libethenite, Chrysocolla | Burra Burra Mine, North Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia. 45x40x35mm (No. 1653)
Bassanite after Gypsum | Kimba, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. 35x18x15mm
Mawbyite (TL) | Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 10mm.
Brown pyromorphite on bed of lustrous dark green-black vauquelinite crystals from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia. 23x15x12mm
Stolzite on green Vesuvianite rock with Manganese dendrites from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. Collected by a member of the North West Mineral Club Trip on 20th April 2007. Specimen measures 48x30x20mm.
Hematite stained spray of Natrolite crystals on druzy grey Analcime in vesicular basalt from the Little Plains Quarry, Blue Tiers, Tasmania, Australia. FOV is 15mm.
Small (red) hematite included/coated calcite crystals, and a small spray of natrolite on druzy analcime in vesicular basalt from the Little Plains Quarry, Blue Tiers, Tasmania, Australia. FOV is 20mm. The blue mineral on the...
(green) Bayldonite pseudomorphing Mimetite with (yellow-green) Beudantite-Segnitite (series) from the Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 30mm. Collected in the 1970’s.
Ex Chris Parkinson. Ex George Smith. In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries George Smith was an ore-buyer, manager of the ABH Consols mine and from 1904 the NSW Inspector of Mines for many...
Pale purple crusts of petterdite (this is a rather large example for the species) surrounded by minor crocoite and philipsbornite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania. The Red Lead mine is the type locality...
Bavenite on Andradite with minor Magnetite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. 90x80x75mm.
Bavenite on Calcite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. 35x25x22mm.
Bavenite on Calcite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. 40x30x12mm.
Bavenite on Calcite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. 65x45x35mm.
Bladed Calcite crystals with intergrown white/brown tufts of Bavenite, a rare Baryllium Calcium Silicate mineral from a vugh found circa 2005. from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. 40x35x25mm.
Bladed Calcite crystals with intergrown white/brown tufts of Bavenite, a rare Baryllium Calcium Silicate mineral from a vugh found circa 2005. from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. 110x80x60mm
Baryte on Manganoan Calcite | Hercules Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. 80x60x40mm.
These were supposedly sourced from a station in Northern Western Australia – they were grading a road cutting through a hill, and an old guy found them and apparently saved about 30 but kept the...
Baryte on Manganoan Calcite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 135x115x40mm.
Pyrite dusting Baryte on Calcite from the Zinc / NBHC Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 35x30x10mm.
Olivenite from the Sir Dominick Mine, Yudnamutana, South Australia. FOV ~90mm.
Barytocalcite crystals on granular galena, from a vugh found in 1830 stope, W lens, 46 Level at the Rosebery Lead/Zinc Mine, Tasmania. 120x60x45mm.
Volborthite | Mt Coffin Mines, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. 17x15x15 mm.
Purple Fluorite on Quartz from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania. 40x30x15mm.
Pale blue (due to copper content) globules of very rare bastnäsite-la on matrix from the Paratoo Copper Mine, Yunta, South Australia. FOV 5mm.Ex P.G.Prandoni systematic collection.
Lustrous, crystallised and glassy snow-white aggregate of Goosecreekite. Nashik quarry, Nashik District, Maharashtra, India. [FOV 50mm]
Azurite from the Great Cobar North Mine (North Cobar mine), Cobar, New South Wales, Australia. 40x55x45mm.
Azurite | Mt Chalmers, Queensland, Australia. 30x20x15mm.
Azurite with minor Malachite from the Blockade Mine, Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia. 45x43x17mm.
Azurite from the Boomerang Mine, Queensland, Australia. 55x30x25mm.
Azurite nodules ranging from 15-20mm | Nabawa, Northhampton, Western Australia.
Azurite on a kaolinite/sandstone matrix from the Malbunka Copper Mine, Gardiner Range, Northern Territory, Australia. [180x130x75mm]
Azurite from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Ex SA Museum. 55x55x40mm.
Azurite on a kaolinite/sandstone matrix from the Malbunka Copper Mine, Gardiner Range, Northern Territory, Australia. [75x70x15mm]
Atacamite | Cattle Grid deposit (Cattlegrid; ML5599), Mount Gunson, South Australia, Australia. 130x80x35mm.
Azurite on a kaolinite/sandstone matrix from the Malbunka Copper Mine, Gardiner Range, Northern Territory, Australia. [120x80x40mm]
Azurite from Mineral Hill, Condobolin district, New South Wales, Australia. [FOV 90mm]
Malachite after Azurite| Burra Burra Copper Mine, , Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia. 45x32x20mm.
Atacamite | Cattle Grid deposit (Cattlegrid; ML5599), Mount Gunson, South Australia, Australia. 110x65x35mm.
Azurite nodule| Burra Burra Copper Mine, , Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia. Nodule is 50mm wide.
Atacamite | Cattle Grid deposit (Cattlegrid; ML5599), Mount Gunson, South Australia, Australia. 50x35x10mm.
Malachite after Atacamite | Cattle Grid deposit (Cattlegrid; ML5599), Mount Gunson, South Australia, Australia. 20x11x10mm.
Azurite nodule| Burra Burra Copper Mine, , Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia. Nodule is 35mm wide.
Azurite from the Old Mt Liverpool Mine, Tumby, South Australia, Australia. 23x15x10mm.
Atacamite | Mount Gunson Mine, Mount Gunson, South Australia, Australia. 60x55x15mm.
Augite from the Hampshire Area, Tasmania, Australia. 50x35x20mm.
Arsenopyrite on Quartz | Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania, Australia. 40x35x25mm.
Azurite, minor Malachite | Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia. 90x60x50mm.
Flattened blue vivianite plates in a quartz based matrix – these were collected from the open pit circa 2009 – from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. 135x40x40mm.
Vivianite on Tertiary wood from the Arthur River Area, NW Tasmania, Australia. 120x20x15mm.
Vivianite on Tertiary wood from the Arthur River Area, NW Tasmania, Australia. 160x30x25mm.
Vivianite on Tertiary mudstone from the Arthur River Area, NW Tasmania, Australia. Blue area measures 200mm in length.
Vivianite on Tertiary mudstone from the Arthur River Area, NW Tasmania, Australia. Blue area measures 80mm in length.
Blue-green Vivianite on magnesite-siderite matrix from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania. Main crystal is approximately 40x12mm.
Brochantite on Hematite included Quartz from Mount Lyell Mines, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia. 60x23x15mm.
Molybdenite from Mount Stronach, Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia. 60x40x35mm.
Molybdenite from Mount Stronach, Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia. 60x50x20mm.
Molybdenite from Mount Stronach, Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia. 25x15x10mm.
Smithsonite, Hemimorphite, Rosasite from Level 8 of the San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), East Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. 50x38x27mm.
Smithsonite, Hemimorphite, Rosasite from Level 8 of the San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), East Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. 45x25x15mm.
Smithsonite, Hemimorphite, Rosasite from Level 8 of the San Antonio Mine (San Antonio el Grande Mine), East Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. 45x30x20mm.
A small sample with an area hosting extremely rare bright blue spheres of sieleckiite in association with libethenite and turquoise. From the type locality for sieleckiite – Mount Oxide Mine, Mount Gordon, Queensland. Measures 40x30x10mm.
Azurite from Mineral Hill, Condobolin district, New South Wales, Australia. [40x29x12mm]
Legrandite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. [38x25x23mm]
Descloizite from the Berg Aukas Mine (Berg Aukus Mine), Grootfontein, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia. [55x50x45mm]
Historic specimen of blue-green Liroconite on Quartz from Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England. Many of the crystals are bright green, suggesting they are transitioning into kernowite, the iron-end member, which forms a series with...
Sturmanite from the N’Chwaning Mines, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa. 19mm.
Babingtonite on Quartz from Malad Quarry (Kandivali Quarry), Malad, Mumbai (Bombay), India. FOV 20mm.
Peisleyite from Tom’s Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda South Australia. Type Locality. [11x10x4mm]
Water clear Aragonite crystals collected in 1986 from the Don Hill Cutting near Devonport, Tasmania, Australia. The larger crystal on left is 24mm.
Turquoise from NE of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. 110x60x30mm
Marshite from the type locality, Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The photograph on the right is a bit crude but shows the same specimen under longwave ultraviolet. [15x12x12mm]
Yellow ‘Chrome’ Cerussite from the Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. 37mm.
Yellow ‘Chrome’ Cerussite from the Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 20mm.
Yellow ‘Chrome’ Cerussite from the Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 20mm.
Old time specimen of Quartz on Fluorite from Mt Gee, Arkaroola, South Australia. [50x40x20mm]
Old time specimen of Quartz on Fluorite from Mt Gee, Arkaroola, South Australia. [50x40x20mm]
Old time specimen of Quartz after Fluorite from Mt Gee, Arkaroola, South Australia. [50x40x20mm]
Beryl with minor Sellaite, Magnesite and rare Ferroaluminoceladonite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. [FOV 30mm]
Corundum (Var: Ruby) from the Mistral Mine, Spriggs Creek Bore, Northern Territory, Australia. [18x18x2mm]
Adamite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. [90x55x40mm]
Epistilbite and Chabazite from Nashik, Maharashtra, India. [70x65x40mm]
Apophyllite from the Jalgaon district, India. FOV 45mm.
Lustrous, crystallised and glassy snow-white aggregate of Goosecreekite. Nashik quarry, Nashik District, Maharashtra, India. [45x45x40mm]
Orpiment from Cut 62, Twin Creeks Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. FOV 40mm.
Hausmannite with Andradite from the N’Chwaning #2 Mine, Kuruman, South Africa. [40x37x35mm]
Terminated crystals of Väyrynenite from a find in 2019 at the Rondu Mine, Shengus, Haramosh Mts., Skardu Dis., Pakistan. [14x13x5mm]
Capsule containing a powdery mineral sample of Mpororoite and Anthoinite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. Capsule measures approximately 12mm in length.
Micro crystals of Anatase on Quartz from Mount Read, West Coast, Tasmania, Australia. Field of view is approximately 40x20mm.
Hematite, Quartz – Iron Monarch Open Cut , Iron Knob , South Australia. [40x35x25mm]
Andradite from Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia. [50x38x35mm]
Almandine garnet from Mt. Riddock Station, Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia. [FOV 150mm]
Water clear Analcime crystal on Natrolite from near Cape Grim in NW Tasmania, Australia. [55x50x45mm]
Large single Almandine crystal from Ireland’s Garnet Mine, Thackaringa District, New South Wales, Australia. [110x100x95mm]
Ankerite on drusy Quartz – these were found in 1995 in a pillar adjacent to the Henty Shaft collar, Henty Gold Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania. [30x25x2mm]
Andradite from Mt. Garnet, Queensland, Australia. [70x55x50mm]
Andradite from Mt. Garnet, Queensland, Australia. [50x40x35mm]
Andradite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. [FOV 35mm]
Andradite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. [FOV 30mm]
Andradite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. [44x35x30mm]
Andradite with Magnetite and Calcite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. [FOV 40mm]
Andradite with minor Calcite and Pyrite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. [50x38x30mm]
Andradite with minor Epidote mostly on the other side of the specimen from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. [70x50x45mm]
Andradite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. [24x23x23mm]
Andradite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. [32x30x25]
Beryl with Magnesite and rare Ferroaluminoceladonite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. [80x60x40mm]
Arsenopyrite from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. [90x70x45mm]
Arsenopyrite, Actinolite from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. [35x22x15mm]
Na2KLiFe2+2Ti2Si8O24 Neptunite is a silicate mineral named for Neptune, the Roman god of the sea. It was first described in 1893 for an occurrence at the type locality for the species – Narssârssuk pegmatite, Narsaarsuk...
Green crystals of Epidote associated with altered Cambrian “Murchison Granite” (red granite is visible in the first image). These were discovered in 1991 during hydro tunnelling work on the Anthony Headrace Tunnel near Tullah on...
Tabular Albite (Var: Andesine) with Ilmenite, Augite and Calcite on matrix from Portland Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Sir William Grant (Portland), Victoria, Australia. [50 x35x24mm]
Two interesting thumbnail specimens of greyish-black Acanthite after Dyscrastite or Argentite from Brownes Shaft Junction, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Circa 1966-68.
Ferro-actinolite from the Junction North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [25x11x10mm]
Actinolite with Axinite-(Fe), Calcite etc from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. Overall specimen dimensions are 150x100x110mm. FOV in close-up images below are 40mm.
Actinolite from the Browns Creek Mine, Cow Flat, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. [65x50x40mm]
Actinolite w/ Axinite-(Fe), Calcite and Quartz with minor Chalcopyrite present in matrix. FOV 50mm. From the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
Amphibole, possibly Actinolite – Ferro-Actinolite or hastingsite, green fibres on Andradite from the Stormont Mine, Moina, Tasmania, Australia. [40x25x20mm]
Actinolite in Quartz from the North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 30mm.
A brown Hematite pseudomorph after a radiating Amphibole mineral; possibly Actinolite from Section 4958m of the Stanley River Tinfield, Tasmania, Australia. From an old collection – this material is pictured in the Stanely River Tinfield...
A brown Hematite pseudomorph after a radiating Amphibole mineral; possibly Actinolite from Section 4958m of the Stanley River Tinfield, Tasmania, Australia. From an old collection – this material is pictured in the Stanely River Tinfield...
Adamite and Cu Austinite on Willemite from the Beltana Mine (E.Z. Mine), Puttapa, South Australia, Australia. Collected in the mid 80’s. FOV 33mm.
Phillipsite coated green Aegirine-Augite crystals with minor white Thompsonite on Olivine Basalt from the Eagle Road quarry, The Sideling, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 38mm.
Blackish lead-grey crystals of Aikinite with Chalcopyrite, Quartz, Fluorite and Andradite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 20mm.
Alabandite from the Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [60x60x55mm]
Alabandite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. [40mm]
Allanite-(Ce), one of four minerals in the Allanite group, this specimen with the rare earth Cerium being dominate. This piece dates back to the early 1970’s as far as I can tell and comes from...
Epidote on Albite crystals from the Entia Valley, Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia. [60x50x45mm]
Albite overgrowth on Microline crystal from Mount Cameron, Gladstone area, Tasmania, Australia. [45x35x35mm]
Aldermanite from Klemm’s Quarry, Angaston, South Australia, Australia. [80x55x40mm]
Aldermanite, Fluellite, Minyulite from Tom’s Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia. [70x45x40mm]
Aldermanite with Fluellite from Tom’s Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia. [50x35x30mm]
Azurite after Malachite nodule from the Burra Burra Copper Mine, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia. Nodule is 40mm wide.
Raspite crystals, many double terminated from the type locality, Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. [24×20x20mm]
Aurichalcite with Hemimorphite and minor Linarite and Hydrozincite from the Evelyn Mine, Pine Creek, Norther Territory, Australia. FOV 30mm.
A large violet coloured Amethyst cluster from the Victoria River Downs Station, Victoria River, Northern Territory, Australia. Ex Dick Johnston collection. Ex Bernie Whyte collection. [215x118x108mm]
Mimetite & Duftite from Sabine’s Shaft, Mount Bonnie Mine, Northern Territory, Australia. [140x100x90mm]
Light purple Fluorite cubes with Quartz on Magnesite-Siderite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. Older material and some excellent Magnesite-Siderite crystals for the location. [150x100x45mm]
Galena crystals with Quartz and minor Siderite from 1447m R.L Waratah Orebody, Renison Bell Tin Mine, Tasmania. These were discovered in 1999. [75x90x60mm]
Black glassy Davidite-(La) with Roscoelite (a rare Vanadium rich member of the Mica group) from the Radium Hill Mine, Olary Province, South Australia. This is also the type locality for Davidite-(La). [15x11x9mm]
Fluorophlogopite and Cummingtonite from a long abandoned tin prospect near Trial Harbour, Tasmania, Australia. [100x90x50mm]
A solid slug of fine grained Heazlewoodite from the type locality, Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia. [50x45x35mm]
Heazlewoodite and reddish Pyroaurite-2H in serpentine from the Nickel Reward Mine, Trial Harbour, Tasmania, Australia. [40x30x25mm]
Kapundaite from the type locality, Tom’s Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia. FOV 10mm.
Orange-yellow Paulscherrerite (Type Locality) from the Mount Painter No. 2 workings, Mt Painter area, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia. [Thumbnail]
Freshly exposed crystals of Hellyerite from the type locality – Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia. Specimen self-collected in 2020. Specimen measures 50x40x25mm. FoV of macro images is 10mm.
Cassiterite crystal fragment from the Cream Creek mine at Frome River, Branxholm, Tasmania, Australia. The original hand written labels record that the specimen dates to 1907 and that it was apparently one of the largest...
Green Anglesite, a Broken Hill classic from the MMM Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Specimen measures approximately 62x25x10mm with green Anglesite crystals measuring 1-4 mm scattered on a red-brown-black Goethite matrix.
Large opaque and blocky crystal (70mm) of dark brown-black Bustamite in massive Pyrrhotite from the NBHC Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [120x75x60mm]
Long crystals of Bustamite in Galena from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [90x55x30mm]
Pinkish Bustamite with Sphalerite and Galena from the North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [35x25x22mm]
Pinkish, off white ‘Hairy’ Bustamite from 29 Level of the North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [45x30x20mm]
Pyrite crystals to 8mm on Quartz from the Wilmot Hydro Power Scheme Tunnel, near Lake Cethana, Moina. Specimen was collected in the late 1960’s. L: 145mm.
Calcite , Aragonite and a small group of Baryte on basalt from the Bundoora Quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia. [110x70x50mm]