ANKH27 Hentschelite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
ANKH27 Hentschelite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia.FOV 25mm.
ANKH27 Hentschelite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia.FOV 25mm.
ANKG11 Almandine, Muscovite, Mt Riddock Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia. A red almandine crystal embedded in muscovite mica.FOV 25mm.
ANKE9 Erythrite, Actinolite, Calcite, Biggenden Mine, Biggenden, Queensland, Australia.FOV 30mm.
ANKG4 Andradite, Pyrite, Epidote, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia.FOV 20mm.
ANKP79 Phillipsite, Cape Grim, North West Tasmania, Australia.FOV 30mm.
ANKG3 Andradite on Magnetite, Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia.18x15x13mm.
ANKF53 Fluorite, Calcite, Dolomite, Pyrite, Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.30x21x16mm.
3283 Cloncurryite (TL), Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia.FOV 20mm.
3289 Wilkinsonite (TL), Warrumbungle Volcano, Warrumbungle National Park, Gowen Co., New South Wales, Australia.25X17X15mm.
3328 Alunite, Alum Mountain, Bulahdelah, New South Wales, Australia.52x32x27mm.
3292 Monohydrocalcite, Lake Butler, Robe, South East – Limestone Coast, South Australia.50x32x17mm.
ANKP252 Pyrite from from Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 23x20x5mm.
ANKG121 Galena (crystal) from Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 9x8x7mm.
ANKM125 Pink (cobalt-bearing) Mansfieldite with black Heterogenite and yellowish Smolianinovite from Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia. 15x15x5mm.
ANKA272 Arsenopyrite from Sunny Corner, Roxburgh Co., New South Wales, Australia. FOV 10mm.
ANKQ62 Japan Law Twin Quartz from Shepherdlys Fluorite Mine, The Gulf, New South Wales, Australia. 15x10x6mm.
ANKS56 Struvite from Skipton Caves, Mt. Widderin, Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia. 12x8x6mm.
ANKC387 Crocoite with microscopic yellow Mimetite intermixed with a yet to be identified mineral – Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 10mm and 4mm
ANKS146 Staurolite | Cattle Creek, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia. 15x11x7mm.
ANKR42 Rhodochrosite on Quartz | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 15mm.
ANKF74 Fluorite | Trouser Springs, Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia. 25x15x12mm.
Chrysocolla | Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia. 20x15x11mm.
Copper, Cuprite on Smithsonite from Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 20x15x12mm.
ANKP186 Pyromorphite, Mount Stewart Mine, Leadville, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 17mm.
Epidote, Spriggs Bore, Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia. 20x20x15mm. Not the most aesthetic specimen, but Ex Reg Spriggs!
2969 Epidote, Entia Valley, Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia. 30x25x10mm.
Epidote, Entia Valley, Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia. 50x20x10mm.
2111 Epidote, Entia Valley, Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia. 65x20x15mm.
1593 Tarnished Emplectite with Sphalerite from the Cattle Grid deposit, Mount Gunson Copper Mines, South Australia. 20x6x5mm.
2415 Eosphorite, Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia. 25x22x15mm.
Vivianite, Pyrite – Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia – FOV 5mm.
3302 Chalcoalumite, Cyanotrichite, Mount Oxide Copper Mine, Mount Gordon, Queensland, Australia. FOV 25mm.
3301 Azurite, Malachite, Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, South Australia. 25x20x15mm.
3300 Phurcalite, Torbernite, Monakoff mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. 24x10x7mm.
Pyromorphite from Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 50x20x8mm.
(pink) Wupatkiite on a (pale green) brecciated Quartz matrix from the Lorena Gold Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia. [30x25x10mm]
Luinaite-(OH) (discredited), Tourmaline and Fluorite – Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania. 35x25x20mm.
Angastonite (Type Locality) | Penrice marble quarry, Angaston, Barossa Valley, North Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia. FOV 5mm. Angastonite is a relatively new Ca-Al-Mg phosphate mineral, IMA approved in 2008. It occurs as aggragates of...
Renardite (yellow), Metazeunerite (green) – (labelled East Alligator River) Alligator River, Northern Territory, Australia. 8x7x3mm.
Soddyite (yellow), Curite (orange needles) from South Alligator River, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia.
3284 Dewindtite – (labelled East Alligator River) Alligator River, Northern Territory, Australia. 25x20x18mm.
3279 Autunite, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, Australia. FOV 30mm.
3226 Malachite after Azurite, Sir Dominick Mine, Yudnamutana, South Australia. 60x45x40mm.
3271 Tsumcorite, Mimetite – Beltana Mine, Puttapa, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia. FOV 4mm.
Historic specimen. Freiberg Mining Academy Mineral Dealership label is in the handwriting of Wilhelm Maucher who was Faktor betewen 1904-1909. Label matched using the MinRecord label archive. #3235 Scheelite – Mt. Ramsay Mine, Waratah, Tasmania....
Wulfenite, Fluorite, Galena, Cerussite, Pyromorphite, Avondale Mine, Mt Lyndhurst, South Australia. FOV 5mm.
3270 Laumontite, Prehnite, Albion Park Quarry, New South WalesPrehnite, Albion Park Quarry, Croom, Camden Co., New South Wales, Australia. 40x30x20mm.
3269 Calcite, Pyrite on Prehnite, Prospect Quarry, Prospect, Cumberland Co., New South Wales, Australia. FOV 35mm.
3267 Prehnite, Albion Park Quarry, Croom, Camden Co., New South Wales, Australia. 45x35x25mm.
3266 Prehnite, Albion Park Quarry, Croom, Camden Co., New South Wales, Australia. 40x35x30mm.
Birchite? (labelled Birchite but not analysed and requires further investigation) from Block 14 Open Cut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 3mm.
Vesuvianite from Barraba, New South Wales, Australia. 30x24x10mm.
Calcite with Chabazite from Gads Hill, Mersey Valley, Tasmania, Australia. 28x9x8mm.
Baryte from the Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. 37x25x13mm.
Argardite-(Y) from Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. FOV 5mm.
Hematite included Quartz with Dolomite from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania. 15x13x10mm.
3255 Decrespignyite-(Y) with minor Malachite – Paratoo Copper Mine, Yunta, South Australia. 30x30x8mm.
3253 Djurleite – Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. 15x12x7mm.
3253 Djurleite – Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. 20x12x15mm.
3250 Cerussite (Var: Chrome) with Crocoite and minor Dundasite – Kapi Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 45x35x10mm.
2627 Wodginite (Type Locality), Wodgina Tantalite Mine, Wodgina, Abydos Station, Port Hedland Shire, Western Australia. 35x20x15mm.
3172 Melonite, Kambalda Nickel mines, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia. 30x20x10mm.
2691 Resinous reddish brown coatings of hisingerite with grey-violet cleavages of Violarite with Pyrrhotite – Perseverance Ni Mine, Leinster, Western Australia. 50x30x30mm.
2387 Mottramite – Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia. 25x20x10mm.
Sasaite (white) with Turquoise – Edi-Cheshunt turquoise field, Whitfield, Victoria, Australia. 35x23x25mm.
Dufrénite – Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia. 80x60x30mm.
Wavellite – Peechelba wavellite occurrence, Warby Ranges, Victoria, Australia. 70x60x30mm.
Dravite – May Downs Station, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. 80x47x45mm.
Scholzite – Reaphook Hill, Martins Well, South Australia. Ex SA Museum. 65x50x30mm.
Dickite on Fluorite on Magnesite-Siderite | Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia | 30x25x23mm |
Galena – Cadjebut Mine, Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. 55x50x30mm.
Calcite with Aragonite | Kyogle Quarry, Fairy Mount, Kyogle, New South Wales, Australia | 50x25x15mm |
Fine grained Vittinkiite. Analyses indicates that “Rhodonite” from this locality is actually Vittinkiite | Woods Mine, Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia | 60x50x45mm |
Crocoite – Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Collected by Frank Mihajlowits. 85x80x60mm.
Crocoite on Quartz – Comet Maestries Mine, Dundas, Tasmania. Collected in the 1980’s. 90x75x35mm.
Crocoite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Mined in 2021. 75x70x40mm.
Crocoite from the Kapi Mine, North Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 90x65x10mm.
Blue Cyanotrichite and green Malachite from the Mount Oxide Copper Mine, Mount Gordon, Queensland, Australia. [FOV 40mm]
Crocoite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. This specimen was mined in 1987. 90x50x35mm.
Blue Cyanotrichite and green Malachite from the Mount Oxide Copper Mine, Mount Gordon, Queensland, Australia. [FOV 5mm]
White crystals of tengerite-(Y) with blue decrespignyite-(Y) (type locality) and minor green malachite from the Paratoo Copper Mine, Yunta, Olary Province, South Australia. FOV is ~5mm.
Cornwallite with Olivenite – Sir Dominick Mine, Yudnamutana, South Australia. 20x15x10mm
Cerussite (Var: Chrome) – Kapi Mine, North Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 45x55x35mm.
Cuprite with Native Copper – Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia. 60x60x45mm.
Copiapite on Gypsum – Brookstead Tin Mine, Royal George, Tasmania. 100x80x50mm.
Native Copper – DeGrussa Copper Mine, Doolgunna Station, Peak Hill Mining District, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia. 70x60x5mm.
Native Copper – Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 110x60x50mm.
Native Copper, Cuprite, Malachite – Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia. 80x60x45mm.
Native Copper from the Moonta mines, Moonta, South Australia. 37x35x10mm.
A selection of thumbnail and miniature Native Copper specimens from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Field of view is 50mm.
<1mm vugh containing purple Elyite crystals in Lead slag with green Malachite and blue Linarite from the Tasmanian Smelters, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 4mm.
Perroudite, Cinnabar and Olivenite on Chenevixite from the Bali Lo Copper Mine, Ashburton Downs Station, Western Australia. 11x8x7mm.
Natrolite from the Cape Grim area in far NW Tasmania, Australia. 80x40x30mm.
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.
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.
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.
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]
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 |
Ulrichite (Type Locality) | Lake Boga Granite Quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia | FOV 3mm | No. 1888 |
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 |
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 | Dome Rock Copper Mine, South Australia | No. 2546
Thomsonite, Chabazite (Var: Phacolite), Calcite, Phillipsite-(Na) | FOV 40mm | Bundoora Quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia | No. 2308
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
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 |
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.
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.
Collinsite and Calcite from the Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia. FOV 10mm.
Connellite, Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, South Australia. FOV 25mm.
Gmelinite-(Ca), Analcime | Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia | FOV 35mm | No. 2877 |
Scholzite, Parahopeite | Reaphook Hill, Martins Well, South Australia | 55x40x30mm | No. 2222 |
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.
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. 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.
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
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.
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
Spray of acicular Millerite crystals | Perseverance Ni Mine, Leinster, Western Australia| 43x30x10mm | No. 2604
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 |
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.
Bustamite, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 90x45x25mm.
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.
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
Individual rounded masses to 5mm of tanteuxenite-(Y) from Mineral Claim 790 Pegmatite, Yinnietharra, Western Australia.
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.
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.
Beryl (Var: Emerald) | Torrington mining district, Torrington, NSW, Australia. 17x5x5mm.
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. 30x19x12mm.
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.
Azurite from the Great Cobar North Mine (North Cobar mine), Cobar, New South Wales, Australia. 40x55x45mm.
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.
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]
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]
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]
Arsenopyrite from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. [90x70x45mm]
Arsenopyrite, Actinolite from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. [35x22x15mm]
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 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]