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Agate   

3.0 x 2.0 x 2.5 cm

Agate   

4.0 x 2.0 x 1.7 cm

Agate   

4.0 x 1.8 x 2.3 cm

Malachite   SOLD

Whim Creek Cu Mine, Whm Creek, Pilbara Region, Western Australia, Australia.

An excellent display specimen from this prolific Western Australian location; velvety dark green hemispheres of malachite after azurite fully covering the front of the specimen with a number of small halve spheres scattered on the other site over the dark chocolate coloured base rock. Richard Wright collection.

12.5 x 6.5 x 5.0 cm

Quartz   SOLD

The range of hills to the east of Adelaide is renowned as a source of quartz crystals of exceptional clarity and beauty; the White Rock quarry produced over the years many spectacular crystals treasured in many collection and museums around the world. Three doubly terminated, lustrous, partly water clear, simply a great specimen.

9.0 x 9.0 x 4.5 cm

Gmelinite-Na   

Cairns Bay, Flinders, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.

OUTSTANDING large specimen of grey basalt base rock with a couple cavities up to 70 mm wide sprinkled with tiny sparkling, small Analcime crystals and very generously covered with reddish, well formed exceptionally lustrous Gmelinite crystals to 7 mm. Gmelinite belongs to zeolite group of minerals.

15.0 x 8.5 x 9.0 cm - 1418.0 g

Inesite   

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

This is a real gem, a colourful combination of coarse crystallized white fluorapophyllite base with sparkling galena on top and the beautifull rosettes and sprays of exceptionally rich vein of lustrous acicular inesite crystals to15 mm long. One of the best and most aesthetic pieces I have seen in many years.

7.0 x 4.0 x 2.8 cm

Azurite   

Girilambone Cu Mine, Grilambone, Gidalambone, Canbelego C., New South Wales, Australia.

An outstanding small miniature plate of brown limonite matrix with one site completely covered with a carpet of sparkling lustrous deep blue coloured Azurite crystals, a perfect specimen.

4.5 x 2.0 x 0.8 cm

Ferrocolumbite   

Giles Prospect, Spargoville, Coolgardie District, Western Australia.

Giles Columbite-Beryl Pegmatite in Western Australia is the source of some great specimen and this one is one of them, a good example of the quality; four black terminated crystals perched on white Albite matrix with the largest crystal measuring some 24 x 14 mm.

6.0 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm

Crocoite   

Red Lead Mine, Dundas Area, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia.

They don't come as big as this one any more; solid dark orange-red crystal with contact terminations at both ends and with some minor natural etching and coating of some dark mineral on the opposite side, collected last century in early thirties. Frank Mihajlowitz specimen.

8.5 x 1.8 x 0.8 cm

Boulder Opal   SOLD

Yowah Opal Fields, Oplton, Queensland, Australia.

The transparent to translucent opal coating on two sides of the chocolate brown ironstone matrix is showing a colourful display, a variation of milky, blue, and green shades of the precious opal from Queensland. Three sides have been sawn to remove the excess matrix.

8.0 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm

Hedenbergite   SOLD

Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia.

A very good small display piece, with excellent lustrous dark olive green hedenbergite crystals to 7 mm, generously covering the shallow concave display side of the specimen, with crystallized to massive hedenbergite ?? matrix. Joe Blackwell collection.

8.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm