1211 Arsenopyrite – Colebrook Hill Mine
Arsenopyrite from the Colebrook Hill Mine, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia. [90x70x45mm]
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 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 Microcline crystal from Mount Cameron, Gladstone area, Tasmania, Australia. [45x35x35mm]
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]
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]
Epidote in Quartz from the S38 Pump Sump Drive, North Bassett Decline, Renison Bell Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia. [90x60x20mm]
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...
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.
Pyrite from the King Island Scheelite Mine, King Island, Tasmania, Australia.
Muscovite, Quartz and minor Molybdenite from Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania, Australia.