Moculta Phosphate Quarry, Penrice, Barossa Council, South Australia, Australia

Pale yellow micaceous calcioferrite. Width of photo ca. 5 mm.

© Fritz Schreiber

Yellow-green flattened calcioferrite crystals cluster on matrix. Sample from Bill Henderson (swap 1983). Olympus OM DE M5 Mark II /Mitutoyo Plan Apo X 20/Raynox Dcr 250 Retro/Stack Unit Linear-actor & Control/ Aperture. Photo & Collection: Christophe Boutry.

© Christophe Boutry

Crandalite from Klemm’s Quarry (Moculta), Angaston, South Australia. FOV 20mm. Specimen and Photograph - James Melville (2023)

A 3.2 by 2.4 cms piece with yellow crystals. JSS specimen and photograph.

© 2008 JSS

Minute dark crystals of dufrenite on whitish globular fluorapatite.

© Judy Rowe

Crandallite crust on Carbonate-Fluorapatite matrix with 2x2x1,5cm - November of 2006

© Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra

Small crandallite crystals pseudomorph after wavellite. JSS specimen and photograph.

© 2007 JSS

Sample with 2x2x2cm - November of 2006

© Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra

Crandallite crust on Carbonate-Fluorapatite matrix with 2,5cm - November of 2006

© Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra

A 2.7 by 2.3 cms specimen with white microcrystals. JSS specimen and photograph.

© 2007 JSS

Crandallite crust on Carbonate-Fluorapatite matrix with 2,5x2x1,5cm - November of 2006

© Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra

1mm cluster of xls. JBS specimen and photo.

© 2006 Jason B. Smith

Width of field is 1.7 mm. Collection of Jesse Crawford. The depth of field has been enhanced using Helicon Focus (38 exposures). Equipment: Nikon D-100 digital camera on a homemade microscope. Cacoxenite with white unidentified phosphate.

© 2008 by Jesse Crawford

Field with 10x5mm - November of 2006

© Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra

Tiny vug of 1,5 mm containing crystals of calcioferrite. Photo and collection Antonio Borrelli

© Antonio Borrelli

Dimension crystals mm. 0,4

Aggregate of sulphur-yellow, clear, tabular calcioferrite crystals. Specimen collected by Rob Sielecki in the 90s and received through P. Cossi. Collection and photo by Gianfranco Ciccolini. Nikon D750, two bellows, Luminar 25 mm, total opening.

Field with 10x5mm - November of 2006

© Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra

Aldermanite from the Type Locality, the Moculta Phosphate Quarry, Angaston, Barossa Valley, South Australia. The photo width is 11mm. It is from the Joan Lamond micro collection.

© Steve Sorrell

7.3 x 6.8 x 3.8 cm. A very showy and very rich wavellite specimen from an uncommon Australian locale - the Moculta Phosphate Quarry. Very interesting radial tufts of chatoyant, pearlescent, acicular wavellite crystals abound on the undulating gossan matrix. Seldom available in this richness and quality.

© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com

Pale yellow micaceous calcioferrite. Width of photo ca. 8 mm.

© Fritz Schreiber

Clear and colourless acicular sprays of Wavellite from the Moculta Quarry, South Australia. Specimen is ~25 x 15 x 10 mm.

Pale yellow micaceous calcioferrite. Width of photo ca. 6 mm.

© Fritz Schreiber

Brownish red mitridatite from Moculta.

© Judy Rowe

Small rhombic crystals, characterized by the presence of rhombic bipyramide {111} colored orange in child photo, rhombic longitudinal prism {011} colored blue (always in child photo), brachypinacoid {010} in yellow. See Mineralogy and Geology Vocabulary, pages 178 -179, author Erberto Tealdi. The orange color and also purple in the left part of ...

This photo shows the various ways in which the carbonate-rich fluorapatite occurs in the Moculta quarry: from single, hexagonal, colorless crystals to opaque crystals inside and colorless in the outer part and to ivory spheres consisting of the aggregation of these hexagonal crystals. Collection and photo by Gianfranco Ciccolini.

A nice little group of fluorapatite spheres nestled amongst more a group of a more regular crystal form of fluorapatite.

© Mark Willoughby

Purchased from Steve Sorrell, now in collection of Mark Willoughby.

© Mark Willoughby

Pale yellow crystals of calcioferrite, thin, platy and transparent. Field of view: 2.1mm.

© Judy Rowe

Aggregates "rosette" like of tabular crystals, thin, of calcioferrite, yellow and orange.

Crude crystal forms and drusy coatings of green-blue chalcosiderite. Specimen and photo, M. Willoughby.

© Mark. Willoughby 2010

7.3 x 6.8 x 3.8 cm. A very showy and very rich wavellite specimen from an uncommon Australian locale - the Moculta Phosphate Quarry. Very interesting radial tufts of chatoyant, pearlescent, acicular wavellite crystals abound on the undulating gossan matrix. Seldom available in this richness and quality.

© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com

Reddish brown, rhombic, fluellite crystals, characterized by rhombic bipyramide {111}, longitudinal rhombic prism {011} and brachipinacoid {010}. Collection and photo by Gianfranco Ciccolini. Nikon D750, bellows, Luminar 25 mm.

White Aldermanite on Fluellite Ex John Sobolewski collection Acquired from Cathy Beckman on eBay on 27 December 2017

Pale yellowish, earthy masses of tinticite in matrix with olive-green mitridatite (visual id) and an unidentified colourless phosphate. Purchased in 1983. Stack of 67 images.

© Andrew Hodgson

Always from the same specimen, this photo depicts a set of spheres, from which protrude hexagonal crystals, always, of carbonate-rich fluorapatite. Collection and photo by Gianfranco Ciccolini.

A third example: a set of spheres, from which protrude hexagonal crystals, always, of carbonate-rich fluorapatite.. Collection and photo by Gianfranco Ciccolini.

Sony Nex 7, bellows, Mitutoyo M Plan Apo 20x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, THK linear actor, stack shot control. Collection and photo Stephan Wolfsried

© Stephan Wolfsried 11/2015

In a small vug, lined with spheres of very light lemon-yellow kidwellite, three spheres composed of tabular yellow-orange cyrilovite crystals. The child photo depicts another example of a small vug, present in the same specimen, with yellow cyrilovite spheres grown on small colorless leucophosphite crystals. Analysis performed at the AMI ...

3.0 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm

© Maggie Wilson

Cyrilovite (yellow) on wavellite. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and FYSCOPE 4X Semi Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.

Specimen size 8.5 x 4.5 cm.

© Leon Hupperichs

A piece of gossan matrix with a large, shallow cavity lined with lustrous sprays of micro minyulite crystals.

© P. Nicholson

Aggregate of sulphur-yellow, clear, tabular calcioferrite crystals. Specimen collected by Rob Sielecki in the 90s and received through P. Cossi. Collection and photo by Gianfranco Ciccolini. Nikon D750, two bellows, Luminar 25 mm, total opening.

Pale yellow-green calcioferrite on matrix. Photographed by, and in the collection of Dan Costian.

Calcite with needles of wavellite. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and FYSCOPE 4X Semi Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.

Fibrous wavellite overgrowing botryoidal fluorapatite.

© R Bottrill

Pocket of colorless, elongated minyulite crystals. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Calcioferrite - two clusters of pale yellow thin plates. \Doug Merson Photo and collection.

© 11/2016 Douglas Merson

Yellow calcioferrite blades with white to colorless fluorapatite. Doug Merson photo and catalog.

© 4/2017 Douglas Merson

Olive green crust of tiny crystals of dufrénite, with pinkish-white strengite. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 2001. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 60 images.

© Steve Sorrell

Aggregate of tabular, clear, sulfur yellow crystals, of calcium ferrite. The child photo depicts the same aggregate, from another perspective. Collection and photo by Gianfranco Ciccolini. Nikon D750, two bellows, Luminar 25 mm, total opening.

In a small vug, lined with spheres of very light lemon-yellow kidwellite, three spheres composed of tabular yellow-orange cyrilovite crystals. The child photo depicts another example of a small vug, present in the same specimen, with yellow cyrilovite spheres grown on small colorless leucophosphite crystals. Analysis performed at the AMI ...

Rosettes of pale greenish-yellow platy crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1984. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images.

© Steve Sorrell

A spray of wavellite on balls of apatite. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and FYSCOPE 4X Semi Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.

© Steve Rust

A piece of gossan matrix with a large, shallow cavity lined with lustrous sprays of micro minyulite crystals.

© P. Nicholson

A piece of gossan matrix with a large, shallow cavity lined with lustrous sprays of micro minyulite crystals.

© P. Nicholson

Colorless crystals of Fluellite Photo with Canon Eos 600 D + Bellows + Rodenstock Rodagon 35 mm 1:4,0 reversed Photo and collection Giovanni Scapin

© 2021 Giovanni Scapin

Wavellite on fluorapatite 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and FYSCOPE 4X Semi Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.

White, massive, talc-like coatings of aldermanite in small open vuggy areas of matrix. Purchased in 1990. Stack of 48 images.

© Andrew Hodgson

Fluorapatite crystals. 3MP Amscope CMOS camera with bellows and Nikon 4X Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin

© R. J. Martin

Needles of wavellite on balls of fluorapatite. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and FYSCOPE 4X Semi Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.

Small white crystals on matrix. JSS specimen and photo.

© 2024JSS

Pocket of colorless, elongated minyulite crystals, close up photo. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Yellow tabular calcioferrite crystals cluster. Sony Alpha 7R IV A/Mitutoyo Plan Apo X 20/Achromatic doublet retro/"Stone Master Stack Unit" linear-actor & Control/Aperture. Photo & Collection Christophe Boutry /September 2024.

© Christophe Boutry

Nice sample of fine calcioferrite rosettes

© Elise Chaigneau et Eric Penet

Wide fan of thin, flattened, slender wavellite crystals. Collection and photo of Gianfranco Ciccolini. Nikon D850, bellow, Scheider Kreuznach Componon 105 mm; f: 5.6. Focal using 7.

Tan rosettes of platy calcioferrite from the Moculta Phosphate Quarry in South Australia, Australia. The olive green crust may be mitridatite, but I'm uncertain. Photographed with a Nikon Z7 camera using a Nikkor 105mm macro lens, 32mm of extension tubes, and a manual focusing rail. Composite of 10 images stacked with Helicon Focus. Chris Emproto ...

© Chris Emproto

Tiny colourless montgomeryite crystals coating platy pale yellow calcioferrite. (based on info from dealer). Purchased in 1985.

© Andrew Hodgson

Pale yellow thin, platy and transparent crystals of calcioferrite on matrix. Sony Alpha 7R IV A /Mitutoyo Plan Apo 20 / Achromatic doublet retro/"Stone Master Stack Unit" linear-actor & Control/ Aperture. Photo & Collection Christophe Boutry/ September 2025.

© Christophe Boutry

Beautiful, water-clear, sharp wavellite crystals lining a cavity in limonite-pyrolusite matrix. Purchased from Fabrizio Castellaro in 2025. Stack of 109 images.

© Andrew Hodgson

Red terminated crystals of mitridatite (analysed). Ex Judy Rowe Collection. Stack of 90 images.

© crocoite.com

Delicate thin blades of calcioferrite, in a pretty green-yellow color. Ex-collection John Toma. Collection and photo Henk Smeets.

© www.tomeikminerals.com

Botryoidal carbonate rich apatite filling in fractures in the host rock. Small amounts of wavellite are present as sprays on the apatite.

© Joel Williams