Bimbowrie Conservation Park, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia
Andalusite var. chiastolite. Specimen is from the collection of the British Museum of Natural History #1910,345 (1975). Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
© Rock Currier
Old Boolcoomata Station, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia
Reddish-brown crystals of piemontite in quartz. Field of view: 10mm.
© Judy Rowe
White Rock No. 2 pegmatite, White Rock Feldspar Mine, Old Boolcoomata Station, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia
White to pale yellow fibrous sprays of sillimanite.
© Vandall King
Alconie Hill, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia
Crystal with 2cm - November of 2006
© Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra
A 4.1 by 2.9 plolished section. JSS specimen and photograph.
© 2008 JSS
Mount Howden Mine, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia
Came with an original 1911 copy on chiastolites by Sir Douglas Mawson, of Antarctic explorer fame. Sir Douglas was a geologist who was active in South Australia in th early part of the 1900's. Chiastolites are unusual crystals of the mineral andalusite, which when sliced, show a distinct cross pattern defined by carbonaceous inclusions. 4cm x ...
Roselite crystals with calcite (white). 10 mm Field of view. Collected by the late Jack Leach in June 1993. Specimen & Photo: J. Haupt
© John Haupt
A rare, twinned ilmenite crystal from Bimbowrie Station, Olary district, South Australia. Crystal measures 2.5 cm long. Purchased from Jon Mommers, January, 2012.
© C.R. Carnein
A 4.0 by 3.0 cms lustrous black mass collected in the 1962. JSS specimen and photo.
Small sprays of erythrite crystals. Collected on Min Soc Victoria field trip in June 1993. 4mm Field of View Specimen & Photo: John Haupt
Blue coating of lavendulan with minor roselite. 2mm Field of View. Specimen collected by Jo Price June in 1993. Specimen & Photo: J. Haupt
8.8 x 7.0 x 0.6 cm A classic 3 piece set of the well known "Chiastolite" - a variety of Andalusite - from Mount Howden. "Chiastolites" are essentially crystals of Andalusite containing cross-shaped inclusions of carbon, and like this piece are often sliced to show the crystal form better. This piece was actually cut a couple of times, and we ...
© Brian Kosnar - Mineral Classics
Tiny .5 mm crystals of the T/L species, in a quartz feldspar vugh. Specimen is part of the sample used for determining the new species, by Dr Peter Elliott at the SA Museum. Photo is somewhat soft but very much at the limits of my photographic gear. Canon D70, bellows with LOMO microscope objective 10x mounted on an Olympus microscope focus rack ...
© John Toma
Cut and polished crystal section.
© Kelly Nash
Roselite crystals with heterogenite ? (not tested). 10 mm Field of view. Collected by the late Jack Leach in June 1993. Specimen & Photo: J. Haupt
Specimen of 64 x 28 x 17mm Franco Amadori photo. Paolo Franchi collection.
Dark mauve-brown crystals of piemontite intermixed with quartz. Ex. D.McColl. specimen and photo, M.Willoughby.
© Mark Willoughby 2016
Erythrite as deep pink crystals and pale pink botryoidal cobalt bloom with unidentified lilac patches. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 75 images.
© Steve Sorrell
Small cluster of cobaltaustinite crystals surrounded by roselite. 2mm Field of View. Specimen collected by the late Jack Leach in 1993. Specimen & Photo: John Haupt
Cobalt bloom. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 44 images.
© crocoite.com
White Rock Feldspar Mine, Old Boolcoomata Station, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia
Specimen ex B&M Day collection. Photographed with Nikon 10x Objective on Olympus M1 DSLR
White to light gray sillimanite fibers.
Cut section of Andalusite var. Chiastolite. Specimen is ~35 x 30 x 20 mm.
Brown crystals in a cavity. Stack of 10 and 70 images. Matrix in one small area shows a dull green fluorescence under shortwave UV. Ex Jo Price Collection.
© Uwe Haubenreisser
Crude cigar-shaped andalusite crystal with obscure, white, cross-like inclusion. Old material, purchased in 1972.
© Andrew Hodgson
Putt's Well deposit, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia
Gold with malachite in matrix. This specimen, # 3824, currently resides in the University of Adelaide's Tate Geological Museum. Ex South Australian School of Mines & Industries, Technological Museum, #1216.
© Peter Keller
Rich red-brown resinous massive wagnerite in matrix, with minor white leucophosphite (probably). Originally purchased in 1974 as triplite. Many thanks to Peter Elliott (SA Museum) for the ID.
Pink balls of erythrite with green crystals of cobaltaustinite. The yellow crystals have not yet been analysed. 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 ...
© RJ Martin
