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....
Calcite with Chabazite from Gads Hill, Mersey Valley, Tasmania, Australia. 28x9x8mm.
Baryte from the Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. 37x25x13mm.
Hematite included Quartz with Dolomite from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania. 15x13x10mm.
3250 Cerussite (Var: Chrome) with Crocoite and minor Dundasite – Kapi Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 45x35x10mm.
Dickite on Fluorite on Magnesite-Siderite | Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia | 30x25x23mm |
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.
Crocoite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. This specimen was mined in 1987. 90x50x35mm.
Cerussite (Var: Chrome) – Kapi Mine, North Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 45x55x35mm.
Copiapite on Gypsum – Brookstead Tin Mine, Royal George, Tasmania. 100x80x50mm.
<1mm vugh containing purple Elyite crystals in Lead slag with green Malachite and blue Linarite from the Tasmanian Smelters, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 4mm.
Natrolite from the Cape Grim area in far NW Tasmania, Australia. 80x40x30mm.
Crocoite – Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania. FOV 50mm. No. 0536
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...
Chalcophanite from the Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 25mm. No. 0161.
Clay included Chabazite from Bronte Park, Tasmania, Australia. 20x20x15mm. No. 0592.
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...
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...
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 |
Romanèchite | 40x40x20mm | Near Zeehan, West Coast, Tasmania, Australia | No. 1744 |
Gmelinite-(Ca), Analcime | Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia | FOV 90mm | No. 2879 |
Cobaltite | Avebury Nickel Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia | FOV 30mm | XRD Analysed | No. 2653 |
Gmelinite-(Ca), Analcime | Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia | FOV 20mm | No. 2878 |
Gmelinite-(Ca), Analcime | Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia | FOV 35mm | No. 2877 |
Gmelinite-(Ca), Analcime | Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 35mm.
Gmelinite-Ca, Analcime | Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 15mm.
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.
Cerussite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 23x15x15mm.
Cerussite, Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 15mm.
Cerussite, Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 30mm.
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, Galena from the Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 35mm.
Cerussite (Var: Chrome), Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. 35x30x10mm.
Cerussite, Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 30x25x15mm.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
White rhombs of Dolomite on a Chalcopyrite crystal from the 1800 level, of the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Tasmania, Australia. [59x39x34mm]
Micro Pyrite cubes on Calcite from the Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia. 45x45x30mm. No. 1201
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.
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.
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.
Goslarite | Tasmanian Smelting Company (Slag Heap), Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia. 37x30x12mm.
Epidote with Magnetite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania. 24x17x12mm.
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...
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.
Barytocalcite crystals on granular galena, from a vugh found in 1830 stope, W lens, 46 Level at the Rosebery Lead/Zinc Mine, Tasmania. 120x60x45mm.
Purple Fluorite on Quartz from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania. 40x30x15mm.
Augite from the Hampshire Area, Tasmania, Australia. 50x35x20mm.
Arsenopyrite on Quartz | Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania, Australia. 40x35x25mm.
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.
Water clear Aragonite crystals collected in 1986 from the Don Hill Cutting near Devonport, Tasmania, Australia. The larger crystal on left is 24mm.
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.
Beryl with minor Sellaite, Magnesite and rare Ferroaluminoceladonite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. [FOV 30mm]
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.
Water clear Analcime crystal on Natrolite from near Cape Grim in NW Tasmania, Australia. [55x50x45mm]
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 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...
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 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]
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...
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.
Albite overgrowth on Microline crystal from Mount Cameron, Gladstone area, Tasmania, Australia. [45x35x35mm]
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]
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]
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...
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.
Witherite on Harmotome from the Rosebery Mine, Tasmania, Australia. [45x25x15mm]
Rhodochrosite with Quartz from the Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Tasmania, Australia. Cabinet.
Crocoite from the Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 55x35x30mm.
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]
Axinite-(Fe), Arsenopyrite and some small globular dark green-black Chlorite crystals from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania. [55x45x30mm]
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]
A nice miniature specimen of linked clay included Analcime crystals from Cape Grim in NW Tasmania.
From a small once off find in 2017 near Zeehan, West Coast, Tasmania, Australia.
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]
Crocoite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. [120x80x90mm]
Anhydrite from the Savage River Mine, Savage River, Tasmania, Australia. From the first large occurrence of this species in Tasmania. [80x65x60mm]
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]
Crocoite on Goethite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. [90x70x50mm]
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]
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]
Gemmy orange/red Sphalerite crystals with tan coloured Dolomite on massive Galena from underground operations in the 1980’s at the Que River Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. Field of view in the photograph below is approximately 75mm.
Epidote in Quartz from the S38 Pump Sump Drive, North Bassett Decline, Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia. [90x60x20mm]
Tremolite from the S38 Pump Sump Drive, North Bassett Decline, Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia. [90x70x55mm]
From the Slaughteryard face of the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia – blue Beryl crystals in a vein of white to brown Magnesite-Siderite. FOV in the photograph is 90mm.
From 57 Level N Lens of the Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia – granular greyish Vittinkiite – pinkish Rhodonite, with red-brown Spessartine, and some minor sulphides including Galena, Pyrite and Sphalerite, a previously unrecorded association...
Axinite-(Fe) w/ Quartz from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. [55x50x45mm]
From the type locality, Heazlewoodite in serpentine matrix from the Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia. A relatively rich example of ore material from this old abandoned nickel mine. This specimen has been cut to...
Harmotome with Tennantite, these were found in small quantities with the second big Witherite find around mid 2018 in 37Y, Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. [80x55x45mm]
Takanelite on dog tooth Calcite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. The latest on this occurrence as documented on MinDat says that further work on this material suggests some may be Ranciéite, but it...
Scheelite in Magnetite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. [90x75x60mm]
Gibbsite encrusting and largely replacing hollow Crocoite from the Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. This particular specimen is ex Frank Mihajlowits and was acquired from the Zeehan School of Mines by another collector in 1987....
Quartz (Var: Agate) from Little Swanport, near Coles bay, Tasmania, Australia. [125x55x35mm]
Linarite on Chalcopyrite, Quartz and Galena from the Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Tasmania, Australia. Macro FOV is 5mm and 80mm in closeups, full specimen measures 20x14x8cm.
Pyrite on Calcite from a small find at Beams Quarry, Flowery Gully, Tasmania, Australia.
A water clear Quartz crystal backed by steel-grey hair like crystals of Boulangerite on a matrix consisting of mostly Quartz and Rhodochrosite from Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. These were found in the early 1980’s,...
Pyrite from the King Island Scheelite Mine, King Island, Tasmania, Australia.
Muscovite, Quartz and minor Molybdenite from Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania, Australia.
Double terminated Quartz with minor Muscovite from the Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania, Australia. 70mm in length.
Crocoite with minor Dundasite from Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 30x30x20mm.
Crocoite on Goethite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Chalcophanite on Crocoite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 25mm.
One of my personal favourites when it comes to ‘Tassie Classics’. Ankerite on drusy Quartz including an epimorph or pseudomorph after Calcite (top – centre). These were found in 1995 in a pillar adjacent to...
A rare locality specimen of Vesuvianite and Grossular from the Renison Bell mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Waxy pink-lilac Stichtite on serpentine with Chromite from the Tunnel Hill Quarry, North Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Stichtite was first discovered in 1910 in Tasmania and recognised as a new species by A.S. Wesley a former...
A large plate 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. [145x120x27mm]
Quartz, Calcite, Fluorite and minor Pyrite on Pyrrhotite from 1880 level, Envelope Orebody, Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Western Tasmania. Collected in the early 1980’s. [160x120x100mm]
An 8cm tall example of Tektite (Var: Darwin Glass) from the Darwin Impact Crater south of Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia. Formed ~800,000 years ago by a meteorite impact.
Malachite from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia.
Pyrite on Calcite, collected circa 1984 by Ray Keating and others in K54 Stope, Melba Lode, Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania. Cyril Kovac sold this specimen at the Wagga Wagga Gemboree in 2001. There were...
Muscovite on Wolframite and Sphalerite from the Oakleigh Creek Mine, Upper Forth Valley, Tasmania, Australia.
Witherite with Harmotome and Galena from the Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. [160x90x75mm]
A Tasmanian classic, ‘straw’ Cerussite from the Comet Maestries Mine, Dundas, Western Tasmania, Australia. [50x55x45mm] | No. 1360.
Chalcedony (Var: Agate) – Quartz – from the Calder Gravel Pits, NW Tasmania, Australia. [80x75x30mm]
Small blebs of Stichtite in Serpentine with minor Chromite, Chrysotile and Magnetite from an uncommon location – BHP Prospect, Noddy Creek, Macquarie Harbour, West Coast, Tasmania. This piece was collected by Tony Joyce in 2013...
Clinozoisite (Var. Thulite) and Diopside from Andersons Creek, Beaconsfield, Tasmania. 100x 60x20mm.
Diopside in Calc-silicate hornfels from near Trial Harbour, West Coast, Tasmania. 170x100x35mm.
A stonker of a Crocoite crystal from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania. Collected in the Summer of 1987. It measures 120x15x15mm.
A waterworn Quartz (Var: Smokey) crystal from the Gladstone area in NE Tasmania, Australia. From an old collection. 24cm in length, second photo shows the crystal backlit.
Waxy pink-lilac Stichtite on serpentine with Chromite from the Tunnel Hill Quarry, North Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Stichtite was first discovered in 1910 in Tasmania and recognised as a new species by A.S. Wesley a former...
A rather nice example of Natrolite on matrix from near Cape Grim in North West Tasmania. Specimen is approximately 140 x 90 x 75mm.
Datolite from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. Approximate dimensions are 140x60x60mm. This piece dates back to when the location was mined for specimens in the 1980’s.
A rather nice example of Natrolite from near Cape Grim in North West Tasmania. Specimen is approximately 55mm x 35mm.
Granular pale blue Retgersite, with green Zaratite and minor Heazlewoodite from the Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia.
Vivianite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. ~22mm.
Crocoite from the Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Approximate dimensions are 45x40x30mm.
This specimen won’t be winning any awards for aesthetics, but it’s an interesting locality piece. Ilvaite from a small tungsten-magnetite mine (Kara Mine) near Hampshire in north-western Tasmania, Australia.
Quartz (Var: Amethyst) from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite from the Don Hill road cutting, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia. Produced during road works in 1986.
Iridescent Pyrite on Calcite from the Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
Lots going on with this specimen of water clear Fluorapophyllite-(K), Sphalerite, Aragonite, Diopside, Andradite-Uvarovite and Calcite from 1950m R.L, North Avebury Orebody, Avebury Nickel Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia. Approximate dimensions are 90x75x70 mm.
Melanterite and Ferricopiapite(?) from the Granville mine (Granville East prospect), Mt Heemskirk, Tasmania, Australia.
Melanterite and Ferricopiapite(?) from the Granville mine (Granville East prospect), Mt Heemskirk, Tasmania, Australia.
Melanterite from the Granville mine (Granville East prospect), Mt Heemskirk, Tasmania, Australia.
Melanterite from the Granville mine (Granville East prospect), Mt Heemskirk, Tasmania, Australia.
Gemmy orange crystals of Monazite-Ce on Quartz from the All Nations Mine, Moina, Tasmania, Australia. FOV in each image is ~5mm.
1mm crystal of Anatase on Hematite included Quartz from Philosophers Ridge, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Purple crystals of Fluorite on Magnesite-Siderite and some Pyrite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. 160x110x50mm.
A gem quality Zircon crystal measuring 8x8x8mm from Boat Harbour, Tasmania, Australia.
Topaz crystal from Mount Cameron area, NE Tasmania, Australia.
Enstatite ranging in size from 5 – 18mm, self-collected from a river in Northern Tasmania. Black in appearance, colour varies from amber brown to emerald green when backlit.
A small vug in gossan containing the rare species Petterdite with minor Crocoite from the type locality – Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. The area covered by lilac Petterdite is approximately 30mm in width....
Two (3-4mm) nuggets of “Osmiridium”, from alluvial workings at Adamsfield, Tasmania, Australia. They contain mostly osmium, with lesser iridium and rutheniridosmine, plus minor ruthenium. Collected in the 1920’s.
Hinsdalite or Plumbogummite pseudomorphing Pyromorphite from the Pyromorphite lode, Zeehan Queen Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Rhodochrosite on Goethite from XXX, North West Tasmania, Australia.
Hinsdalite or Plumbogummite pseudomorphing Pyromorphite from the Pyromorphite lode, Zeehan Queen Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Rhodochrosite on Goethite from XXX, North West Tasmania, Australia.
Rhodochrosite on Goethite from XXX, North West Tasmania, Australia.
Rhodochrosite on Goethite from XXX, North West Tasmania, Australia.
Rhodochrosite on Goethite from XXX, North West Tasmania, Australia.
Rhodochrosite on Goethite from XXX, North West Tasmania, Australia.
Rhodochrosite on Goethite from XXX, North West Tasmania, Australia.
Rhodochrosite on Goethite from XXX, North West Tasmania, Australia.
Dundasite on Crocoite from the Kapi Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 45mm.
Rhodochrosite on Goethite from XXX, North West Tasmania, Australia.
(green) Zaratite, (white) Dypingite, (yellow) Reevesite with minor (blue) Retgersite and Heazlewoodite (not readily visible in the image) from the Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia.
Crocoite from the Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 70x60x40mm. Ex Frank Mihajlowits.
Fluorite on Magnesite-Siderite from Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite on Hisingerite from Bridgewater, Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite on Siderite from Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Natrolite from Little Plains Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia.
Danalite in Magnetite from Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 40mm.
Crocoite with Quartz from the Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Hematite and Pyrite included Quartz from Mount Heemskirk, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Tabular Quartz from West Coast, Tasmania, Australia.
Luinaite-(OH) and Fluorite from Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
Witherite, Harmotome, Galena from Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
Fluorite on Dolomite w/ minor Pyrite and Siderite from Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Grimaldite with minor Cerussite on Galena from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Specimen around 35mm across.
Natrolite from Northern Tasmania, Australia.
This is an old specimen, labelled as “Massicot” from the Comet Mine, Dundas, Tasmania. According to the Catalogue (GSB 73), none of the reported occurrences of Massicot in Tasmania have been verified and it’s status...
Calcite on Aragonite from Liena, Mole Creek, Tasmania, Australia. These were collected in the 1970’s and are often mislabelled as coming from the Wilmot Hydro Tunnel – this was to protect their true source which...
Calcite on Pyrite from Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Pyrite included Quartz from Mount Heemskirk, West Coast, Tasmania, Australia.
Quartz w/ minor sulphides from North Mount Farrell Mine, Tullah, Tasmania, Australia.
Crocoite on Pyromorphite with Quartz from Platt Prospect, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Pyrite on Slate from Arthur River, NW Tasmania, Australia.
Muscovite balls, grey/white fibrous Luinaite-(OH), Tourmaline and Dolomite from the Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania, Australia. Fluorite and Quartz are also present on this specimen, but are not captured in the images below.
Greenockite on Sphalerite with Dolomite from the Great South Comet Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Sprays of Calcite pseudomorphing Aragonite from a large vugh found in 1999 on the 1530m R.L, Bruny Orebody, Renison Bell Tin Mine, Renison Bell, Tasmania, Australia.
Crocoite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Orcelite collected from the dumps at Avebury Nickel Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Massive silver Tennantite with minor Quartz and Chalcopyrite from the Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
An old specimen containing granulous chunks of Anglesite psm. after Cerussite with Galena from the Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. The specimen is ex Dr Krantz of Germany and came with the old label shown...
Fluorite & Quartz from the Rex Hill Mine, Rossarden, Tasmania, Australia.
Axinite-(Fe) from the Avebury Nickel Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Aragonite from Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.
Quartz (Var: Agate) from Lune River, Huon Valley, Tasmania, Australia.
Chabazite and Stilbite on Calcite from Giblin Street Quarry, Lenah Valley, Tasmania, Australia. Circa 1980.
Hematite included Quartz from Mount Heemskirk, West Coast, Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite from the Arve Valley, Tasmania, Australia. Dug in 2010.
Talc from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
Phillipsite with minor Thompsonite from Gads Hill, Mersey Valley, Tasmania, Australia.
Datolite and Calcite from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
Twinned Chalcopyrite crystal from Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Tasmania, Australia.
Twinned Chalcopyrite crystal from Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Tasmania, Australia.
Hematite included Quartz from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia. 70x50x25mm.
Cerussite (Var: Chrome) and Crocoite from the Kapi Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Chlorite, Dolomite on Quartz from Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Witherite on Harmotome from Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. 21cm wide.
Crocoite from the Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia. 45x40x35mm.
Pyrite and Galena from the Comstock Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia.
Hematite included Quartz from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Cassiterite with Quartz from the Aberfoyle Tin Mine, Rossarden, Tasmania, Australia. 70x50x40mm.
Cassiterite on Quartz with Muscovite from the Oakleigh Creek Mine, Upper Forth Valley, Tasmania, Australia. FOV 70mm.
Beryl with Sellaite, Magnesite and rare Ferroaluminoceladonite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. [40x38x35mm]
A small purple Fluorite crystal with Quartz on Sphalerite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
Quartz and Rhodochrosite from the B lens orebody in the upper levels of the Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. These were found in the early 1980’s.
Mimetite from Magnet Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
Pyrite on slate from Trowutta, Arthur River, Tasmania, Australia.
Gold and some Quartz from XXX, North-East Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite from the Don Hill road cutting, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia – produced during road works in 1986.
White Tacharanite with pinkish brown Gyrolite and clear Apophyllite on Phillipsite from Coates Pit, Oonah, Tasmania, Australia.
An old ore sample containing Tetrahedrite, Pyrite, Arsenopyrite and Bismuthinite – probably from the Curtin-Davis mine, Ringville, Tasmania, Australia.
Gold (3.15grams) from XXX, North West, Tasmania, Australia.
Crocoite on Limonite from the West Comet Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Certainly not the finest Crocoite specimen you’ll ever encounter but an interesting locality piece.
Petterdite (TL), Philipsbornite (TL), Grimaldiite, Crocoite from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Two intersecting sprays of Calcite pseudomorphing Aragonite from a large vugh found in 1999 on the 1530m R.L, Bruny Orebody, Renison Bell Tin Mine, Renison Bell, Tasmania, Australia.
Witherite and Harmotome from Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
Biotite from Killiecrankie, Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia.
Vivianite crystals to 40mm from the Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania, Australia. Most of these were salvaged in the late 1970’s from a small pocket in the face of a development drive.
Boulangerite on Rhodochrosite from Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. These were found in the early 1980’s, mostly in the B lens orebody from the upper levels of the mine. Specimen is 25mm wide.
Baryte crystals found in the late 1970’s, 5 North, G Lens, 15 Level of the Rosebery Lead/Zinc Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. 55x35x25mm.
10mm Baryte crystal with minor Chalcopyrite, Quartz and Dolomite from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
A mesh of Jamesonite crystals filling a small vug on massive Sphalerite from Mt Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia. Field of View is ~4mm.
White crusts and small globules of Dypingite with some light green Zaratite on Serpentine from the Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite from the Don Hill road cutting, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia. This piece measures 19x8x4 cm and was recovered during road works in 1986.
Witherite crystals from the Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
14mm Siderite on Calcite with black Hisingerite from Bridgewater, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Small crystals of Chalcopyrite and a dusting of Hematite on Siderite with Chlorite included Quartz from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite (Var: Iceland Spar) from Beams Quarry, Flowery Gully, Tasmania, Australia.
Siderite on Fluorite from Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
Quartz with dark to silvery, hair-like, Boulangerite needles on a Quartz and Rhodochrosite rich matrix – these were found in the early 1980’s, mostly in the B lens orebody from the upper levels of the...
Calcite from Liena, Mole Creek, Tasmania, Australia. These were collected in the 1970’s and are often mislabelled as coming from the Wilmot Hydro Tunnel – this was to protect their true source which were caves...
“Straw” Cerussite from the Comet Maestries Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. ~70mm in length.
Serpentine Subgroup (Var: Picrolite) from Tunnel Hill Quarry, Serpentine Hill, North Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Fluorite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
Brochantite, Woodwardite, Posnjakite on Covellite, Chalcopyrite and Digenite from Murrays Reward Mine, Balfour, Tasmania, Australia.
Epidote crystals from the Anthony Headrace Tunnel, Tullah, Tasmania, Australia. Found in veins associated with the Cambrian Murchison Granites. Sourced in the 1990’s during the tunnel’s construction.
Marcasite from Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
Axinite-(Fe) from Colebrook Hill, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. Largest crystal is 30mm. Largest crystal is 30mm.
Botryoidal Dundasite with minor Crocoite from the Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Crocoite from the Dundas Extended Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. [45x25x20mm]
Crocoite on Pyromorphite from the Platt Prospect, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.
Azurite from the Murray’s Reward Mine, Balfour, Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite (uncommon from this location) on Quartz from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
An uncommon specimen, collected in the late 1990s, of Native Copper in sandstone from the historic Lyell Blocks, Mount Lyell, Tasmania, Australia.
Quartz with Hematite inclusions from Mount Read, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia.
Aragonite from the Don Hill road cutting, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia. This was recovered during road works in 1986.
Hematite included Quartz with Hematite coating the reverse side of the specimen entirely (not visible in photo). From 1540 level, Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Tasmania, Australia. 110mm tall.
White radiating Aragonite on a serpentine matrix from the Nickel Reward Mine, Trial Harbour, Tasmania, Australia.
Calcite from Beams Quarry, Flowery Gully, Tasmania, Australia.
Gold (5.18 grams) from XXX, North West, Tasmania, Australia.
Fluorite, Calcite and Quartz w/ minor Chalcopyrite and Hematite from the Prince Lyell Mine, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia. FOV is ~ 40mm.
White Dickite and purple Fluorite on Magnesite-Siderite from Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
Chalcopyrite crystals on and included within a rhomb of Dolomite from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Chrysocolla from the Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia.
Iron-stained rosettes of Calcite on a pyrite-fluorite-dolomite matrix. There are crystals of the rare tourmaline species, Luinaite-(OH) on the underside. From the Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania, Australia. 50 mm across.
Chalcopyrite on Hematite and Chlorite included Quartz from the Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Dolomite and Quartz with Hematite coating and inclusions. From a pocket that was found in 1540 level, Prince Lyell Mine, Mount Lyell, Tasmania. Measures 85 x 60 x 45 mm.
Tourmaline in Fluorite from the Mount Bischoff Mine, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia.
Cerussite from Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. 70x50x20mm.
Hydroxyapophyllite-(K), Natrolite, Phillipsite from West Ridgley Quarry, Ridgley, Tasmania, Australia.
Rhodochrosite w/ minor 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.
Chrysotile from Tunnel Hill, Renison Bell, Tasmania, Australia.
Graphite from Savage River Mine, Savage River, Tasmania, Australia.
Torbernite collected in the 1990’s from the Royal George Mine, Avoca, Tasmania, Australia.
Stolzite from Kara Mine, Hampshire, Tasmania, Australia.
