Ridge Road quarry, Daylesford, Hepburn Shire, Victoria, Australia
Cluster of aragonite crystals. Field of view: 3mm.
© Judy Rowe
Sanidine, part of a megacryst that had been embedded in basalt. Field of view: 12mm.
A rough-looking olivine crystal in basalt. These are usually broken when the basalt is split showing only as dark glassy patches. Field of view: 6mm.
The white sheaf-like aggregates lying on groups of calcite crystals are gonnardite in a mixture with natrolite, as is common in Victorian zeolite localities. Field of view: 5mm.
Spherules of siderite. Field of view: 4.6mm.
Aragonite cluster in a vugh in basalt. Field of view: 7.5mm
Chabazite with a few tiny aragonite clusters in a vugh in basalt. Field of view: 6mm.
Aragonite cluster in a vugh lined with drusy coated phillipsite. Field of view: 6mm.
A bright red zircon in basalt. Field of view: 6mm.
A vugh in basalt with several rounded clusters of tiny phillipsites. Field of view: 10mm.
Calcite crystals in a vugh from the basalt quarry. Field of view: 6mm.
Aragonite cluster in a vugh in basalt. Field of view: 12mm.
Glassy chabazite crystals and aggregates of phillipsite from Daylesford. Clay minerals coat almost everything but the chabazites are covered only on their terminal faces. Field of view: 9mm.
A glassy phacolitic chabazite beside a phillipsite aggregate. The chabazite crystal has the pale bluish clay mineral only on its termination, thereby making the curvature very obvious. Field of view: 3mm.
Bright red zircon in basalt from the Ridge Road quarry. Field of view: 6mm.
Clusters of clear translucent phillipsite in a vugh in basalt. Field of view: 10mm.
A cluster of aragonite crystals. Photo width 3.3mm. Stack of 50 images.
© Steve Sorrell
A cluster of aragonite in a tiny vugh in basalt. The crystals vary in shape - thick or thin, wide or narrow. Field of view: 8mm.
A deep red zircon enclosed in basalt. Zircon crystal is about 1mm across.
View from the top of the quarry at the southern end. Photo taken 2nd February 2013.