Trevor Dart's Photo Gallery
TKQ-KA4Ilmenite Fe2+TiO3
The Pinnacles Pegmatites, Arkaroola Region (Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary; Arkaroola Station) , North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, AustraliaDimensions: 70 mm x 30 mm x 30 mm
Cluster of Ilmenite crystals, from the eastern flank of the high hill directly behind the main Pinnacle (as viewed from the carpark). Large masses of crystalline ilmenite are scattered over this flank, shedding from quartz veins that cut through the schistose rock.
37N-X1GTitanite CaTi(SiO4)O , Ilmenite Fe2+TiO3 , Stilbite Subgroup M6-7[Al8-9Si27-28O72]·nH2O
Arkaroola Bore, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, AustraliaDimensions: 60 mm x 50 mm x 40 mm
Olive green titanite crystal embedded in ilmenite with stilbite. From a small vein near the creek level, to the south of the Arkaroola Bore.
CVM-8Q8Stilbite Subgroup M6-7[Al8-9Si27-28O72]·nH2O
Arkaroola Bore, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, AustraliaDimensions: 120 mm x 70 mm x 40 mm
A plate of Stilbite rosettes, from a vein found near the creek and to the south of the Arkaroola Bore.
MHK-LF1Stilbite Subgroup M6-7[Al8-9Si27-28O72]·nH2O
Arkaroola Bore, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, AustraliaDimensions: 100 mm x 60 mm x 60 mm
Stilbite rosettes from a location high up the valley south of Arkaroola Bore.
X5H-Y4TStilbite Subgroup M6-7[Al8-9Si27-28O72]·nH2O
Arkaroola Bore, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, AustraliaDimensions: 90 mm x 70 mm x 40 mm
Stilbite rosettes from a calcite seam that was high up the valley above Arkaroola Bore.
M69-FV9Hornblende Root Name Group ◻Ca2(Z2+4Z3+)(AlSi7O22)(OH,F,Cl)2
Radium Creek, Mt Painter area, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, AustraliaDimensions: 120 mm x 100 mm x 60 mm
Large crystals of hornblende from the Sphene Dyke area in Radium Creek.
WU7-TK2Diopside CaMgSi2O6 , Titanite CaTi(SiO4)O
Radium Creek, Mt Painter area, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, AustraliaDimensions: 100 mm x 80 mm x 60 mm
Diopside crystal group with small titanite crystals and quartz topping, from the Sphene Dyke area in Radium Creek.
6G6-59EPyrolusite Mn4+O2
Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, AustraliaDimensions: 60 mm x 30 mm x 30 mm
Radial Pyrolusite cluster. Found where the bulldozer cut through a quartz blow along the Ridge Top Track, near the junction of the track and Sunshine Creek, within Sunshine Pound.
G44-H06Goethite α-Fe3+O(OH)
Kingsmill Creek, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, AustraliaDimensions: 120 mm x 90 mm x 90 mm
Mammilary goethite from alongside Kingsmill Creek, east of Arkaroola Homestead, along the Paralana Hot Springs road.
QR2-UNYFluorite CaF2 , Quartz SiO2
Mt Gee, Arkaroola Region, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, AustraliaDimensions: 70 mm x 50 mm x 50 mm
Banded green and purple fluorite with small quartz crystals over the top. From the northeastern flank of Mount Gee.