Gypsum   SOLD

Mt Gunson Area, Stuart Shelf Area, Andamooka Ranges-Lake TorrensAre, South Australia

A very nice, light grass green cluster of translucent and terminated Gypsum crystals to 20 mm long, forming round sprays on top side of the piece.

10.0 x 10.0 x 5.0 cm

Calcite var. Manganoan   SOLD

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

A fan of partly translucent light pink Calcite crystals to 55 mm long with one, not recent but very old cleavage reducing one crystal by about a third. Will fluoresce nicely in reddish-pink colour under UV light.

Chiastolite   

Alconie Hill, Bimbowrie Station, Olary Province, South Australia.

Cigar shaped crude crystals of Chiastolite a variety of Andalusite weathered out of schist from the classic locality at Bimbawrie station in South Australia.

9.0 x 4.0 x 3.0 cm

Opal   

Andamooka Opal Fields, Andamooka, South Astralia.

A small specimen with  a dash of opal jelly on typical quartzsite base rock from South Australian opal fields at Andamooka.

4.5 x 3.0 x 2.0 cm

Conichalcite and Calcite   

Lorena Gold Mine, Cloncurry District, Mt Isa-Cloncurry Area, Queenslams, Australia

Over the last couple of years some interesting finds have been made in Mt Isa-Cloncurry copper belt in North Queensland and this piece is a nice example of white calcite with colourful grass green Conichalcite covering sections of chocolate brown base rock.

9.0 x 11.0 x 4.0 cm

Lechatelierite var. Fulgurite   SOLD

Chappel Vale, Otway Range, Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia.

This is a glassy tube of 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.

Smithsonite   SOLD

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

Very nice small specimen; translucent drops to 3 mm of whitish-light green Smithsonite sitting on top of dark gray-black coronadite.

3.0 x 1.3 x 0.2 cm

Olivine   

Mt Shadwell Quarry, Mortlake, Victoria, Australia.

A very good piece with unusually large sections of olivine, variety peridot crystals. Formed more than a million years ago deep down under earth's crust and brought to the surface by volcanic eruptions this "Olivine Bombs", also known as "Volcanic Bombs", have a rough pitted surface of scoria, but when cut or broken they come to life exhibiting thousands of sugar like sparkling green crystals of olivine.

7.5 x 5.5 x 7.0 cm

Amethyst   SOLD

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

A small cluster of light coloured amethyst cystals from Broken Hiill.

5.0 x 3.0 x 2.5 cm

Cryptomelane   

Renison Bell Mine, North Dundas, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia.

Great and unusual thumbnail; a little porcupine, with earthly-brown erectile spines. Brian Shelton specimen.

3.0 x 1.8 x 2.0 cm

Scapolite   SOLD

Mary Kahleen Mine, Mt Isa - Cloncurry Area, Queensland, Australia.

Quite a stunning and unusual miniature of bend Scapolite crystals with minor green pumpellyite coating partly hiding the entrance to a small cavity lined with lustrous dark brown Andradite crystals.

5.5 x 3.0 x 3.5 cm

Stellerite   SOLD

Glendowda Station, Tambar Springs, New South Wales, Australia.

A fine small miniatureof large well formed lustrous and terminated crystals of deep salmon colour.

5.0 x 3.0 x 2.5 cm