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Azurite

Burra Burra Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia.

Deep blue azurite nodule with minor attachment of green malachite. Ex John Raczkowski collection.

4.6 x 3.6 x 2.5 cm

Crocoite

Adelaide Mine, Dundas Mineral Field, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia.

Lustrous, very bright deep orange-red crocoite crystals sitting on a thin plate of gossan matrix with local clay on the other side of the specimen and partly mixed with some crystals from the famous Adelaide mine in Tasmania. Ex. Wayne Cousins collection.

7.0 x 5.0 x 4.0 cm

Crocoite

Adelaide Mine, Dundas Mineral Field, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia.

Sharp deep blood redvery lustrous crocoite crystals with light sand coloured clay covering one side of gray gossan matrix from the famous Adelaide mine in Tasmania. Ex. Wayne Cousins collection.

10.0 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm

Epidot

Spriggs Bore,Harts Ranges, Northrn Territory, Australia.

Very lustrous, terminated at one end dark olive green crystal some 48 mm long from Harts Ranges in Central Australia.

4.8 x 2.0 x 1.6 cm

Dolomite

Mt Cleveland Sn Mine, Luina, Heazlewood District, Tasmania, Australia.

Another nice miniature from Mt Cleveland Mine; display side of the specimen is fully covered with sparkling, lustrous and very sharp dolomite crystal with a few water clear quartz crystals on the opposite side, no damage, no matrix. This aesthetic specimen is from the mine that has been closed for nearly twenty years and specimens are very seldom available to collectors

4.0 x 2.8 x 1.3 cm

Quartz

Coonabarabran District, Pottinger Co., New South Wales, Australia.

White hemispheres of sparkling white drusy quartz fully covering stellerite.

7.0 x 3.5 x 1.8 cm

Gold

Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia.

Gold is seldom seen in a form like this one, a solid plate of gold coated with some dark mineral, it can be cleaned, weighing 5 grams, from Brian Shelton collection.

2.6 x 1.7 x 0.2 cm

Coronadite

Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia.

Dark gray mass of stalactitic coronadite with slight iridescent colour and no matrix from Terry Enright collection. 

4.7 x 2.3 x 1.0 cm

Fulgurite

Chapple Vale, Otway Ranges, Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia.

Fulgurite is a tubular piece of cemented-fused sand, produced at the impact site of a lightning strike during a thunderstorm. The quartz grains are changed by the intense heat into shiny quartz glass, which is known as lechatelierite, and which may be seen lining the central tubular cavity through the length of the specimen.

4.7 x 1.4 x 1.3 cm

Inesite

Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia.

Colourful combination of dark salmon rosettes and sprays of lustrous acicular inesite crystals to 20 mm long perched on top of local matrix.

4.6 x 3.4 x 2.5 cm

Crocoite

Adelaide Mine, Dundas Mineral Field, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia.

An outstanding miniature of lustrous, bright deep reddish translucent thick interlacing crocoite crystals with minor spots of brown gossan matrix from the famous Adelaide mine in Tasmania. The sharpness, colour and the brightness of crystals will make this a very nice addition to any collection.

4.5 x 3.9 x 1.7 cm

Azurite

Mulbunka Copper Mine, Areyonga via Alice Springs,Gardiner Range, Northern Territory, Australia

Dark blue flattened azurites, also known as 'Azurite Suns' lying on, and beautifully contrasting against white Kaolinite Siltstone-Sandstone matrix. This formation of azurite had to grow compressed between kaolinite laterally and in radiating shape.

4.9 x 4.0 x 2.2 cm