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Calcite on Coronadite   SOLD

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

Dark gray-black thin plates of coronadite generously covered all over with white calcite crystals.

4.0 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm

Malachite   SOLD

Wallaroo Mine, Kadina, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia Australia.

Dark green malachite with lots of character, a good locality specimen. Cy Fortanier specimen.

4.5 x 4.0 x 2.0 cm

Limonite   SOLD

Nilinghoo Goldfields, Olary Province, South Austalia, Australia

Nice cluster of intergrown chocolate brown cubic crystals of limonite pseudomorph after pyrite.

2.3 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm

Andradite var. Garnet   SOLD

Mary Kathleen Mine, Mt Isa-Cloncurry Area, Queenland, Australia.

Lustrous dark chocolate brown crystals of Andradite to 6 mm, a variety of garnet, fully covering one surface of the base rock.

5.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm

Microcline   SOLD

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

Lustrous transparent deep green microcline mixed with quartz and minor sphalerite. Looks great under UV light. Richard Wright collection.

10.0 x 4.0 x 4.5 cm

Coronadite   SOLD

Boken Hill Proprietay Mine, Broken Hill, Yanowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia.

An impressive specimen of stalactitical coronadite growth forming this nature’s creation.

7.0 x 7.5 x 5.0 cm

Prehnite   

Prospect Quarry, Prospect, Cumberland Council, New South Wales, Australia.

Delicate light green botryoidal prehnite on minor base rock.

6.5 x 4.0 x 2.5 cm

Amethyst   SOLD

Kuridala, Queensland, Astralia.

Cluster of light purple well formed lustrous and terminated amethyst crystals to 30 mm on minor matrix.

6.5 x 4.0 x 4.0 cm

Smithsonite   SOLD

Broken Hill Mines, Broken Hill, Yancowinn Co., New South Wales, Australia.

Small globular, frosted light gray translucent smithsonite crystals scattered on dark gray coronadite matrix. Cy Fortanier collection.

4.5 x 4.5 x 2.0 cm

Gypsum   SOLD

Mt Gunson Area, Stuart Shelf Area, Andamooka Ranges-Lake Torres Area, South Ausrlia.

A great cluster of light grass green transparent and/or translucent Gypsum crystals to 20 mm long, forming round sprays on one side of the specimen, while on the other side, there is a change of colour to a light-whitish sandy colour.

15.0 x 8.0 x 8.0 cm

Conichalcite   

Lorena Gld Mine, Cloncurry District, Mt Isa - Cloncurry Aea, Queensland, 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 good example of white calcite with colourful yellow-green Conichalcite covering sections of chocolate brown matrix.

9.0 x 7.0 x 6.0 cm

Chiastolite   SOLD

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