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.
Dark blue Shattuckite with blue-green Ajoite (Type Locality) | New Cornelia Mine (Ajo Mine), Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona , USA | 40x40x35mm | No. 2706
Seeligerite (yellow) with blue Christelite (TL) green Paratacamite, not readily visible in the photo is a micro crystal of orange-red Phoenicochroite, and some minor Herbertsmithite, Hemimorphite & Quartz. 50x35x25mm. From the San Francisco Mine (Beatrix...
Cuprodongchuanite (TL) with Veszelyite and Quartz. Light green possible Tyrolite or Theisite | Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming, Yunnan, China | FOV 20mm | No. 2644
Ulrichite (Type Locality) | Lake Boga Granite Quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia | FOV 5mm | No. 2095 |
Ulrichite (Type Locality) | Lake Boga Granite Quarry, Lake Boga, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia | FOV 3mm | No. 1888 |
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.
Mountkeithite | Type Locality | MKD5 nickel deposit, Mount Keith, Wiluna Shire, Western Australia, Australia | FOV 10mm | No. 2584
Hanksite (Type Locality) | Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA | 30x25x20mm | No. 2517 |
Carletonite (Type Locality) | Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada | 11x8x8mm | No. 2321 |
Arsentsumebite (Type Locality), minor Azurite | Tsumeb Mine, Oshikoto Region, Tsumeb, Namibia. 25x20x15mm. No. 2477.
Fluornatrocoulsellite (Type Locality) with Morinite, Albite and Siderite on Quartz and Fluorite from the the Mt Cleveland Mine, Luina, Tasmania, Australia. 28x23x19mm. No. 2572.
White Sanbornite (Type Locality), Gillespite (red) with Celsian (whitish/translucent) from Trumbull Peak, Incline, Mariposa Co, California, USA. [53x25x5mm] No. 2324.
Pale blue bladed Paratooite-(La) (TL) with white balls of Kamphaugite-(Y) | Paratoo Copper Mine, Yunta, South Australia. FOV ~5mm.
Mawbyite (TL) | Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill Mines, New South Wales, Australia. 10mm.
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...
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.
Historic specimen of blue-green Liroconite on Quartz from Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, England. Many of the crystals are bright green, suggesting they are transitioning into kernowite, the iron-end member, which forms a series with...
Peisleyite from Tom’s Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda South Australia. Type Locality. [11x10x4mm]
Na2KLiFe2+2Ti2Si8O24 Neptunite is a silicate mineral named for Neptune, the Roman god of the sea. It was first described in 1893 for an occurrence at the type locality for the species – Narssârssuk pegmatite, Narsaarsuk...
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]
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.
Marshite (TL) , Smithsonite, Aurichalchite and Cuprite, with minor Malachite, Cerussite, Anglesite and Linarite from the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [28x15x12mm]
Red Carminite with yellow-green beudantite-segnitite collected during a field trip in the 1990’s to Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. [95x55x30mm]
Dull olive-green patches of crude Cobaltaustinite crystals (Type Locality), with flat laying Erythrite crystals, from the Dome Rock Copper Mine, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia. [75x35x15mm]
Scholzite, green Plimerite, and micro crystals of Zn Collinsite and Hillite (TL), from Reaphook Hill, Martins Well, South Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia. Ex Chris Johnson (Miner). [50x35x25mm]
