1862 Clinoclase, Chrysocolla, Dome Rock Copper Mine, South Australia
Clinoclase, Chrysocolla | Dome Rock Copper Mine, Olary Province, South Australia.FOV 25mm. No. 1862
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 | Wiperaminga Hill West Quarry, Boolcoomatta Reserve (Boolcoomata Station), 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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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]
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]
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]
Rare Na/Mn Silicate. Mangano-Ferri Eckermannite from the Woods Mine, Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. [130x85x60mm]
Manganoan bearing Smithsonite – Zincian Rhodochrosite from Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. [110x50x35mm] MinSoc Field Trip – 1996.
Huntite from the Boral Deer Park Quarry, Brimbank, Victoria, Australia. [80x85x70mm]
Apatite on Diopside from the Mount Elliott Mine, Selwyn, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. [100x55x50mm]
Hedenbergite (Var: Manganoan Hedenbergite) crystals to 10mm from the North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [FOV: 80mm]
Bustamite in Calcite from the 18 Level of the ZC/NBHC Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. 50mm terminated crystal. Overall dimensions 105x50x48mm.
Azurite from the Burra Burra Copper Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia. Miniature.
Elbaite (Var: Indicolite) from the Dudley pegmatite, Penneshaw, Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia. [16x12x4mm]
Rhodonite in Galena from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [120x80x75mm]
Azurite on a kaolinite/sandstone matrix from the Malbunka Copper Mine, Gardiner Range, Northern Territory, Australia. [100x70x50mm]
Diamond from the Argyle Diamond Mine (Argyle AK1 pipe), Lake Argyle Area, Western Australia. 5mm.
Witherite on Harmotome from the Rosebery Mine, Tasmania, Australia. [45x25x15mm]
Wulfenite with Cerussite on Galena from the Avondale Mine, Mt Lyndhurst, South Australia. Crystal is 2mm.
Ktenasite from Block 14 Open Cut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Smithsonite from Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Philipsbornite from the Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Brown Pyromorphite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
‘Manganogrunerite’ from Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Smithsonite from Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Large plate of dog tooth Calcite crystals from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature. Small Cabinet.
Smithsonite on Coronadite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature. Small Cabinet.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature. Miniature.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature. Cabinet.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature. Small Cabinet.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Rhodochrosite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Azurite from Mineral Hill, Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia. Small Cabinet.
Silver from the Endeavour Mine (Elura Mine), Cobar, New South Wales, Australia. Miniature.
Kyanite crystals from the Entia Valley, Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia.
Rhodochrosite with Quartz from the Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Tasmania, Australia. Cabinet.
Crocoite from the Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Small Cabinet.
Kornerupine from Riddock Station, Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia. Miniature.
Bismutite (white) and Koechlinite (yellow) on Bismuthinite and Quartz. XRD Confirmed. Obtained from exploration work carried out a few years ago. Not seen from Kingsgate since early 20th century. Bladed Molybdenite replaced in some parts....
Ferrimolybdite on Quartz, a rare secondary mineral occuring in the oxdised zones of hydrothermal veins, it forms from the alteration of Molybdenite. From Old 25 Mine, Kingsgate, New South Wales, Australia.
Beryl (Var: Heliodor) with minor Quartz and Mica from the Disputed Mine, Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia. Miniature.
Gonnardite & Natrolite on basalt from Bundoora Quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia. Small Cabinet.
Columbite-(Fe) crystal from the Londonderry Li deposit, Nepean, Western Australia. [30mm]
Molybdenite with Quartz, Kingsgate, New South Wales, Australia. [125x105x100mm]
Cerussite and Pyromorphite on Malachite from Brown’s Prospect, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, Australia. [65x65x60mm]
Gold in Quartz from Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia.
Yellow ‘Chrome’ Cerussite from the Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. [14mm]
Yellow ‘Chrome’ Cerussite from the Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. [13mm]
Mimetite on Duftite from the Mount Bonnie Mine, Northern Territory, Australia. FOV 40mm.
Erythrite with probable Mansfieldite and Heterogenite from the Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn, Queensland, Australia. [35x30x25mm].
blue Linarite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia – with an unknown spikey pseudomorph. [FOV: 40mm]
Axinite-(Fe), Arsenopyrite and some small globular dark green-black Chlorite crystals from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania. [55x45x30mm]
Copper from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Copper from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Copper from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Wavellite on botryoidal Variscite on slate from the Den Range, North-East Tasmania, Australia. [50x40x10mm]
Large specimen with greenish Datolite crystals to 45mm with Quartz on a matrix mostly consisting of Axinite-(Fe), Actinolite and some minor sulphides from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. [280x210x120mm]
Cabinet sized sample of Plumbian Orthoclase in Galena from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Smithsonite from the Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Rhodochrosite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Stolzite from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [75x40x30mm]
A miniature specimen of Native Silver wires on and included within Gypsum from the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
A nice miniature specimen of linked clay included Analcime crystals from Cape Grim in NW Tasmania.
Pyrosmalite-(Mn) with Axinite-(Mn)?, specimen measures 40x35x15mm and is from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
From a small once off find in 2017 near Zeehan, West Coast, Tasmania, Australia.
Mimetite from the Endeavor Mine (Elura Mine), Cobar, New South Wales, Australia. [45x25x20mm]
Wulfenite on a Limonite matrix from the Whim Creek Copper Mine, Whim Creek, Western Australia, Australia. [FOV: 90mm]
Shannonite? on Minium from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. [10mm]
Smithsonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. [80x60x50mm]
Dolomite on Titanite from 8km N of Spriggs Creek Bore, Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia. TN. Collected July 1994.
Thumbnail sized specimen of Saléeite from the Ranger Uranium Mine, Kakadu, Northern Territory, Australia.
Rutile from Carver’s Claim, Olary Province, South Australia. FOV 30mm.
Rhodochrosite with Quartz from the Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. These were found in the early 1980’s, mostly in the B lens orebody from the upper levels of the mine. [115x70x55mm]
Erythrite from the Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Queensland Australia. [155x110x70mm]
Yellow to green wafer thin crystal group of Autunite, a Uranium ore mineral from the Mount Painter No. 6 workings, Mt Painter, Arkaroola, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia. Bright yellow-green under UV. [30x24x21mm] ☢️
Corundum (Var: Ruby) from the Mistral Mine, Spriggs Creek Bore, Northern Territory, Australia. [75x71x38mm]
A specimen of botryoidal Malachite; old classic Australian material, from the early days of the Burra Burra Copper Mine, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia. There is also some minor Azurite on the reverse of...
Rhodochrosite on Calcite from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [100x30x15mm]
Crocoite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. [120x80x90mm]
Historic specimen of Azurite from the Mount Hope Copper Mine, Mount Hope, New South Wales, Australia. 60mm tall.
Anhydrite from the Savage River Mine, Savage River, Tasmania, Australia. From the first large occurrence of this species in Tasmania. [80x65x60mm]
Quartz from the White Rock Quarry, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. [140x130x80mm]
Chrysocolla, Conichalcite, Opal (Var: Opal-AN) and Aragonite from the Dome Rock Copper Mine, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia. [110x80x18mm]
Pink Calcite (Var: Cobaltoan) from O’Donoghue Castle Mine, 10km W of Wooltana Homestead, South Australia, Australia. [90x60x15mm]
Tourmaline (Var: Dravite) (black variant) in Biotite Schist from the Tomkap Tourmaline Mine (North Pit), Yinnietharra, Western Australia, Australia. [225mm]
Pyromorphite from the Pyromorphite lode, Zeehan Queen mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia. [190x160x75mm]
Cassiterite and Muscovite on Quartz with Wolframite from the Oakleigh Creek Mine, Upper Forth Valley, Tasmania, Australia. [200x125x120mm]
Schorl from the Trial Harbour area on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia. [220x120x100mm]
Spessartine from the Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [110x75x70mm]
A large nodule combining Azurite and Malachite from the old Burra Burra Copper Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia. [90x80x70mm]
Crocoite on Goethite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. [90x70x50mm]
A large specimen of Calcite (Var: Manganoan) from a find in 2010 at the Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The specimen measures 200x90x90mm, the dogtooth crystals range in size from 5...
Stellerite from Tambar Springs, New South Wales, Australia. [70x60x15mm]
Rhodonite from the Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia.
Small secondary Galena crystals with secondary cauliflower like structures of cream to light green Sphalerite. From the watercourse area, Browne’s shaft, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [80x55x30mm]
Another large group of ‘golden’ Baryte crystals found in the late 1970’s from 5 North, G Lens, 15 Level of the Rosebery Lead/Zinc Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania. [150x80x50mm]
Gypsum from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [90x70x55mm]
Rhodochrosite on Pyrite on Calcite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [80x60x30mm]
Malachite after Azurite from the Sir Dominick Mine, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia. [45x40x30mm]
Siderite on basalt from the Boral Quarry, Bridgewater, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite (Var: Manganoan) on Quartz and Actinolite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. [75x45x25mm]
Witherite from the Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. [55x35x25mm]
Pyrargyrite, Siderite and Galena from Brownes Shaft, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [55x30x10mm]
Marshite (TL) , Smithsonite, Aurichalchite and Cuprite, with minor Malachite, Cerussite, Anglesite and Linarite from the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [28x15x12mm]
Millerite from the Perseverance Ni Mine, Leinster, Western Australia, Australia. [65x50x40mm]
Cuprite from the Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia.[12x11x10mm] First photo shows the crystal backlit, and the second without backlighting.
Quartz w/ minor Magnetite in matrix from the Biggenden Mine, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. [45x40x30mm]