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The Best from Down Under
Posted by Trevor Dart
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Re: The Best from Down Under November 17, 2011 11:31AM |
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Re: The Best from Down Under November 20, 2011 11:08AM |
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Something a litttle unusual from Mt Bischoff.
Ice clear Sellaite on ferro-magnesite. Specimen around 90mm wide. Self collected too but not by me, Luke found this one after I got a few others earlier from a seam in the ore body.
Sellaite is found in a number of habits in the mine, this one is clusters on horizontally staked crystals in small groups, It was difficult to find mineral for a long time but appears to be quite common once we found what to look for in different areas of the deposit.
Andrew Tuma
Ice clear Sellaite on ferro-magnesite. Specimen around 90mm wide. Self collected too but not by me, Luke found this one after I got a few others earlier from a seam in the ore body.
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Sellaite is found in a number of habits in the mine, this one is clusters on horizontally staked crystals in small groups, It was difficult to find mineral for a long time but appears to be quite common once we found what to look for in different areas of the deposit.
Andrew Tuma
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Re: The Best from Down Under November 20, 2011 11:20AM |
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Re: The Best from Down Under November 20, 2011 11:33AM |
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Re: The Best from Down Under November 20, 2011 11:24PM |
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Hi,
I don't have many specimens in my collection from Australia but here is one of my favorites:
Azurite, 3.5cm by 5cm from the Burra Mine, South Australia, Australia. I got this from Pam and Bob Stewart at the Nassau County, New York mineral show in 1978.
Best,
Joe
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/27/2011 12:01PM by Rock Currier.
I don't have many specimens in my collection from Australia but here is one of my favorites:
Azurite, 3.5cm by 5cm from the Burra Mine, South Australia, Australia. I got this from Pam and Bob Stewart at the Nassau County, New York mineral show in 1978.
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| © Renee Teresa Polityka |
Best,
Joe
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/27/2011 12:01PM by Rock Currier.
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Re: The Best from Down Under November 26, 2011 03:32AM |
Here's one of the first Aquamarine's that I collected from Torrington many years ago, measuring 4cm tall, still one of my prized finds.
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Re: The Best from Down Under November 27, 2011 11:47AM |
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I've been playing around with my Canon DSLR, extension tubes and closeup rings. This is one of the results. A sceptre calcite from Flinders, Victoria. The sceptre measures 0.8mm across. I call this "the lighthouse".
Regards
Steve
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/27/2011 11:48AM by Steve Sorrell.
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| Calcite, Cairns Bay | © crocoite.com |
Regards
Steve
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/27/2011 11:48AM by Steve Sorrell.
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Re: The Best from Down Under November 27, 2011 11:56AM |
Hi Steve
I wish I could play with my Canon DSLR and find a result like that !!!>:D<
By the way nice pic !!!!X(
Again too much red wine tonigh
t for me !!!
I wish I could play with my Canon DSLR and find a result like that !!!>:D<
By the way nice pic !!!!X(
Again too much red wine tonigh
t for me !!!
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Re: The Best from Down Under November 28, 2011 08:57PM |
Smithsontite on Coronadite
MMM Open Cut
Broken Hill
New South Wales
Australia
65.0 x 47.0 x 30.0 mm overall. Lustrous, translucent, frosted, light-grey, tear-drop-shaped Smithsonite to 3 mm richly covers a grey to sparkling black matrix of Coronadite.
MMM Open Cut
Broken Hill
New South Wales
Australia
65.0 x 47.0 x 30.0 mm overall. Lustrous, translucent, frosted, light-grey, tear-drop-shaped Smithsonite to 3 mm richly covers a grey to sparkling black matrix of Coronadite.
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Re: The Best from Down Under December 01, 2011 11:00AM |
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Here's another that I took last weekend with my Canon plus tubes and rings...
Mimetite "rose", Mt Bonnie, Northern Territory.
Regards
Steve
Mimetite "rose", Mt Bonnie, Northern Territory.
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| Mimetite, Mt Bonnie | © crocoite.com |
Regards
Steve
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Re: The Best from Down Under December 01, 2011 11:49AM |
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Re: The Best from Down Under December 04, 2011 03:10AM |
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Found this while sorting through some older material...
Regards
Steve
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| Actinolite on Axinite-(Fe), Colebrook Hill, Tasmania | © crocoite.com |
Regards
Steve
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Re: The Best from Down Under December 05, 2011 07:16AM |
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Re: The Best from Down Under December 09, 2011 10:14PM |
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Re: The Best from Down Under December 13, 2011 02:13AM |
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Re: The Best from Down Under December 13, 2011 02:36AM |
Here's a couple more 2011 finds from Harts Range, a couple of small but well-formed chrysoberyls, and a nice translucent Beryl from western Harts Range.
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| © www.australiancrystals.com.au |
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Re: The Best from Down Under December 16, 2011 10:24AM |
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Gold from Kalgoorlie...
Regards
Steve
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/16/2011 10:25AM by Steve Sorrell.
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| Gold, Kalgoorlie | © crocoite.com |
Regards
Steve
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/16/2011 10:25AM by Steve Sorrell.
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Re: The Best from Down Under December 16, 2011 10:26AM |
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And a rare one, tarbuttite from Reaphook Hill...
Regards
Steve
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| Tarbuttite, Reaphook Hill | © crocoite.com |
Regards
Steve
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