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Cerussite var. Chrome

Dundas Mineral Field, Zeehan District, Tasmana, Australia.

Hundreds of tiny cerussite variety chrome crystals sprinkled all over one side of the gossan matrix with some more crystals on the opposite side, from B & M Day collection.

5.5 x 5.0 x 1.5 cm

Bismuth

Wolfram Camp, Dimbulah, Mareeba Shire, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia.

Bright gray-metallic mass of solid native bismuth a member of arsenic group, weighing 33 grams.

3.4 x 1.2 x 1.2 cm

Carminite plus

Kintor Open Cut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna C., New South Wales, Australia.

Reddish brown micro crystals of carminite, a rare secondary mineral, in association with beudantite and segnitite from B & M collection.

3.6 x 2.5 x 3.0 cm

Libethenite

Hardway Mine, Mt Isa-Cloncurry Area, Queensland, Australia.

Hundreds of sparkling dark olive-green micro libethenite crystals generously scattered over the display side of light gray-brown matrix.

4.0 x 2.7 x 2.6 cm

Pentagonite

Wagholi Quarry, Wagholi, Pune District, Maharashtra, India.

Attractive royal blue bladed pentagonite crystals up to 10 mm long with heulandite and calcite on brown matrix.

5.0 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm

Minium

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

Coating of bright orange-red minium, a rare lead oxide secondary mineral most likely formed during mine fires on local matrix.

6.5 x 5.5 x 6.5 cm

Newberyite

Skipton Caves, Mount Widderin, Skipton, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia.

Nice type locality specimen, composed of small platy crystals of newberyite, a rare magnesium phosphate, originally found in lava caves at Skipton, but now only found in old collections.

3.0 x 2.6 x 2.1 cm

Kermesite

Murat Dagi, Kutahya Province, Aegean Region, Turkey.

Deep red needles of kermesite on matrix with minor calcite.

1.3 x 1.0 x 1.0 cm

Goceixite

Iron Monarch Open Cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Ranges, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.

Gorceixite occurs as small pseudo cubic crystals of cream-yellow colour on drusy hematite crystals on massive hematite.

4.8 x 3.1 x 2.8 cm

Scholzite

Reaphook Hill, Martins Well, South Flinders Ranges, South Australia.

Brown limonitic matrix is hosting groups of transparent-translucent very lustrous colourless acicular scholzite crystals to 20 mm long, a rather rare phosphate from the classic South Australian locality

5.5 x 4.0 x 3.1 cm

Mimetite

Kintor Open Cut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia.

Globular sparkling micro crystals are richly covering the dark brown goethite matrix; mimetite is an arsenate mineral which forms as a secondary mineral in lead deposits.

10.0 x 6.7 x 4.8 cm

Conichalcite

Dom Rock Cu Mine, Kalabity Homstead Area, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia.

Bright apple green globular conichalcite is covering most of one surface of the thin matrix plate, an arsenate mineral from the mine closed many years ago.

6.2 x 5.0 x 1.5 cm