Mount Deverell variscite deposit, Milgun Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Elongated heavily striated pseudohexagonal crystals of segelerite with chisel shaped terminations of gordonite (visual ID). Image taken with Olympus E-M1 camera with Nikon 10x objective and zoom lens. Specimen ex Ted Fowler/Jo Price

© John Haupt

Colorless doubly terminated gordonite on mitridatite. FOV = 2 mm. Ex. CSIRO

© Van King

Variscite vein in matrix. Gerard van der Veldt collection and photo.

© Gerard van der Veldt

This specimen was purchased as foggite after variscite but XRD indicates the white material is mostly wardite with minor variscite, brushite and a whiteite group mineral. Cut slab about 10cm long.

© R. Bottrill

White massive wardite rimming green massive variscite.

© Diederik Visser Minerals

Nodular rock with a vein of variscite. Location on label: Milgun Station, Meekatherra, Western Australia. Specimen 8036 in the collection of the photographer, Alan Goldstein.

© Alan Goldstein

Grayish yellow segelerite crystals 1 mm each in vug with brownish orange natrojarosite crystals in jarosite matrix. Ex. CSIRO

© Van King

Variscite (green) associated with Montgomeryite (white), Foggite(brown), Wardite(grey) and Crandalite(brown yellow bleb). Field of view 10 mm. Collection M. Kampf No 06-034.

White gordonite crystals (1 mm) in divergent cluster. Ex. CSIRO

© Van King

Colorless to palest green montgomeryite bladed crystals. FOV = 1 mm. Ex. CSIRO.

© Van King

Crystalline material. From the variscite mine, western side of Mount Deverell. Collinsite is a relatively rare and not well known phosphate mineral. 10cm x 5cm x 3cm

Nearly colorless montgomeryite crystal (~0.5 mm). Ex. CSIRO.

© Van King

White, massive Foggite surrounding green Variscite. Former Jaroslav Hyrsl collection. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Collinsite crystals, translucent and colourless. Field of view: 2.5mm.

© Judy Rowe

Dark olive green mitridatite, showing scaly and splendent microstructure, in bright-white fine-grained leucophosphite.

© Van King

Sprays of clear montgomeryite crystals on yellow-brown mitridatite, with hexagonal shaped segelerite crystals at the bottom of the photo. Image taken with Olympus E-M1 Camera with Nikon 10x objective and zoom lens. Specimen ex Ted Fowler/Jo Price.

© John Haupt

Cut Variscite nodule The accompanying David M. Shannon label states: "The green with foggite-brown; montgomeryite-white; wardite-grey. Also possible millisite, collinsite, fluorapatite, crandallite-yellow." Ex David M. Shannon collection (until 1996) Acquired from Paul Mestrom at the monthly MKA meeting on 11 October 2019

This is a micromount specimen of montgomeryite from the Milgun Variscite Mine, Milgun Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia. I acquired this specimen from Don Smoley at the 2018 Canton mineral show. The specimen was formerly in the collection of William "Bill" Henderson (1932-2014). Jamison K. Brizendine specimen and ...

© Jamison K. Brizendine

White, massive foggite adjacent to green variscite, close up. Former Jaroslav Hyrsl collection. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Greyish foggite with white to colourless montgomeryite at the edge of green variscite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Ex Minerals Unlimited specimen.

© Steve Sorrell

Snow-white leucophosphite nodule with inclusions of brown jarosite and dark green mitridatite. Ex Peter Bridge, CSIRO.

© Van King

Colourless prismatic hydroxylapatite (centre of photo) with colourless to yellowish hemispheres of distinct collinsite crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images.

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Colourless hexagonal prisms and bowties of hydroxylapatite. Monoclinic tiny thin platy crystals of colourless montgomeryite (eg: top right of photo). The larger colourless crystals are possibly collinsite. White balls of crandallite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Stack of 55 images.

© Steve Sorrell

Rich, thick green variscite from the Milgun Variscite Mine.

© Yash Redkar

Botryoidal olive green mitridatite with unidentified white fibrous tufts (collinsite?). Ex Jo Price Collection. Stack of 80 images.

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Clear needles of hydroxylapatite with pale yellow crystals of collinsite. Ex Jocelyn Thornton collection. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and Nikon 4X Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking clean-up with Faststone and PhotoScopeX. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.

© RJ Martin

Botryoidal yellowish mitridatite with unidentified colourless fibrous tufts and radial aggregates (collinsite?), and colourless hydroxylapatite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Stack of 50 images.

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Crystals of collinsite from Mount Deverell variscite deposit, Western Australia.

© Knut Eldjarn

Crystals of gordonite from Mount Deverell variscite deposit, Western Australia.

© Knut Eldjarn

Compact radiating aggregates of yellowish crystals of hydroxylapatite on bladed montgomeryite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Stack of 60 images.

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Finely nodular turquoise encrusting matrix. XRD confirmed S. Mills (Museum Victoria).

© Ben Grguric

A vein of green variscite with white nodules of wardite and other phosphates from Mount Deverell variscite deposit, Western Australia.

© Knut Eldjarn

A light green aggregate of bladed crystals of montgomeryite from Mount Deverell variscite deposit, Western Australia.

© Knut Eldjarn

Yellow-green cyrilovite from Mount Deverell variscite deposit, Western Australia.

© Knut Eldjarn

Collinsite from Mount Deverell variscite deposit, Western Australia.

© Knut Eldjarn

© Yash Redkar