QUEENSLAND

Origin: Mt. Elliot Mine, near Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 4.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm (top), 11 x 1 x 0.8 cm (2nd row), 3.5 x 2.7 x 1.4 cm (bottom)

Origin: Mt. Elliot Mine, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 4.1 x 2.8 x 1.5 cm

Cornetite

Origin: Mary Kathleen, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Cuprite

Cuprite with malachite

Origin: Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 3.9 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm

Variety chalcotrichite

Origin: Bown River, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Variety chalcotrichite on cuprite crystals

Cuprite cluster with tiny sky blue spheres of cyanotrichite

Origin: Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry District, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown (top), >2 mm cluster (2nd row), unknown (3rd row), 2.5 mm crystal (bottom)

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Origin: Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: field of view 4.8 mm (left), 2.7 mm (2nd photo), 1.6 mm (3rd photo), 1.8 mm (4th photo), 3 mm (5th photo), 2.1 mm (last photo)

Sample owner: Sue and Phil Ericksson

Origin: Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Chillagoe-Herberton District, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 7 x 7 x 8 mm

Origin: Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Chillagoe-Herberton District, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 9 x 6 x 11 mm

Origin: Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 3.1 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm

Variety chalcotrichite on cuprite

Origin: Mt. Isa, Queensland, Australia

Ex. Dick Jones collection

Sample size: 2.3 x 2.2 x 1.1 cm

Variety chalcotrichite

Origin: Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 8 mm

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Cuprite with wavellite

Origin: Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 8 mm

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Cyanotrichite

Origin: Mt. Oxide, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Diamond

Origin: Sapphire designated fossicking land, Anakie, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: about 1 mm, 0.2 carat

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Duftite

Mimetite on duftite

Origin: Mt. Bonnie, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Dufrénite

Dufrenite with hyalite opal

Origin: Milo Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 5 mm

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Orange earthy smolianinovite with erythrite on and in matrix

Origin: Mt. Cobalt Mine, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 3.5 x 5 cm

Origin: Mt. Cobalt, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Origin: Mt. Cobalt Mine, Queensland, Australia

Ex. Clyde Hardin collection

Sample size: 4.2 x 3.1 x 1.2 cm

Fluorite with quartz

Origin: Wolfram Camp, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 25 mm wide

Twinned clusters of pink/purple micro fluorites stand in small columns above larger cubic fluorites overgrown on azurite and malachite

Pink micro fluorite clusters over azurite, hematite and as yet unID'd white mineral

Origin: Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry District, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: field of view 1 mm (top), field of view about 1 mm (bottom)

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Transparent fluorite overgrowth on malachite and azurite

Fluorite with malachite

Origin: Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry District, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: field of view about 3 mm (top), field of view about 2 mm (bottom)

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Fluorite on molybdenite

Origin: Leisner's Shaft, Wolfram Camp, Queensland, Australia

Ex. Marty Zinn collection

Sample size: 4.7 x 4 x 3 cm

Origin: Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

"The Providence Nugget" was found by Jack Lange. Jack Lange is a well known Australian prospector who writes for and advertises in Australian Gold Gem and Treasure magazine. He spends his time between running his detector store jacksgold.com and nugget hunting himself in the wilds of Northern Australia. Note that this is a much rarer area to get a good, and large nugget from than from the comparatively richer goldfields in Southern Australia.

From Jack: "I called this magnificent 1100 gram (35.3 ounce) crystalline nugget the “Providence Nugget’ because of the circumstances surrounding its discovery. My brother Ed and I decided to try an area we hadn’t prospected before in North QLD…I detected the nugget within minutes of getting out of my vehicle at only about 45 cm depth!! Another week of searching the surrounding area produced nothing…so this was truly a providential find, thus the “Providence Nugget”. The whole story (along with the locality once he is done finishing exploration there) will be in an early 2005 edition of Australian Gold Gem and Treasure magazine.

Origin: Queensland, Australia (exact locality to be published in Australian Gold, Gem, and Treasure)

Sample size: 13.5 x 11.3 x 1.5 cm (average height)
weight = 1100 grams / 35.5 ounces

Origin: Eldorado Mine, Gympie, Queensland, Australia

Ex. Marty Lewadny Collection

Sample size: 2.8 x 1.6 x 0.9 cm, 2.4 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm

Gold on quartz and albite

Origin: Eldorado Mine, Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 2.3 x 1.8 x 1.5 cm

Origin: Red Dome mine, Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 22 mm wide

Origin: Mt. Garnet, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Origin: Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 23 x 13 x 9 mm

Hentschelite

Clusters of hentschelite (associated with cuprite on silicaceous matrix). , clusters to approx. 250 microns, on a 20 x 30 mm specimen, which also includes areas of singular crystals, an exceptionally rare form. From a singular boulder locality first discovered and recognized by Don McColl, Curator of Minerals, Queensland Museum, Mount Isa in 2000.

Hentschelite on quartz

Origin: Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry District, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: field of view 2.2 mm (top), field of view 1.5 mm (2nd row), field of view 1.5 mm (bottom)

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Hentschelite with a bit of cuprite

Origin: Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 1.8 x 1.7 x 1.0 cm

Hentschelite with cuprite

Origin: Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 1 mm

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Erythrite on heterogenite

Origin: Mt. Cobalt, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Origin: Bamford, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Kennedy Mineral Collection, Carleton University

Leucophosphite

Clusters of leucophosphite to ~2 mm with micro pale blue crystalline turquoise

Origin: Mount Oxide Copper mine, Mt Isa, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: field of view 10 mm (top), field of view about 4 mm (2nd row), field of view 6 mm (3rd row), field of view 6 mm (bottom)

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Levyne

Erionite or offretite needles epitaxially grown on tabular levyne. The former normally occur as ultra-short tightly packed needles, giving the transluscent to clear levyne crystals a matt white appearance.

Origin: Laidley Creek, Gatton Valley, South East Queensland, Australia

Sample size: levyne crystal about 1.25 mm (top), levyne crystal about 1 mm

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Libethenite

Libethenite on turquoise

Origin: Gunpowder, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Dark green micro crystals less than 0.75mm on sky blue crystalline turquoise.

Origin: Gunpowder, Queensland, Australia

Ex. DeVito collection

Sample size: 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm

Libethenite with pseudomalachite and hyalite opal

Origin: Hardway Mine, Mount Isa district, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 6 mm (top), 9 mm (bottom)

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Libethenite with chrysocolla

Libethenite with azurite

Origin: Inkerman Mine, Mount Isa district, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 8 mm (top), 7 mm (2nd row), 7 mm (3rd row), 8 mm (bottom)

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Libethenite with pseudomalachite and hyalite opal

Origin: Hardway Mine, Mount Isa district, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 8 mm

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Malachite with quartz

Origin: Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry District, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: malachite clusters to 1 mm (top), malachite crystal less than 1 mm in length (bottom)

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Malachite with azurite and cuprite

Origin: Great Australia MIne, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: field of view 1.4 mm (top left), 1.1 mm (2nd photo), 1.3 mm (3rd photo), 0.8 mm (4th photo), 3 mm (2nd row left), 3 mm (2nd photo), 3 mm (3rd photo), 2 mm (last photo)

Sample owner: Sue and Phil Ericksson

Origin: Mt Isa, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 5.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm

Malachite pseudomorph after atacamite

Origin: Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 9 mm

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Malachite with quartz

Malachite with siderite

Malachite with quartz

Origin: Magpie Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 8 mm (top), 8 mm (2nd row left), 6 mm (2nd row right), 8 mm (3rd row left), 7.5 mm (3rd row right), 8 mm (4th row), 7 mm (bottom left and right)

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Cobaltian mansfieldite with erythrite. Light pink, small botryoidal masses of cobaltian mansfieldite. Erythrite is the bright pink fibrous, radial structures.

Gray-white, pinkish-gray, and white botryoidal bubbles of mansfieldite to 0.2 mm scattered throughout a matrix of bright pink, flat acicular erythrite crystals in divergent sprays to 2 mm. Ex. DeVito collection

Origin: Mt. Cobalt, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 4.5 x 4 x 2 cm (top), 2 x 1.5 x 0.5 cm (bottom)

This mansfieldite is cobalt-bearing, hence the pink colour.

Origin: Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn, Cloncurry District, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: field of view 4 mm

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Marcasite on arsenopyrite

Origin: Wolfram Camp, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 33 x 22 x 20 mm

Mimetite on duftite

Origin: Mt. Bonnie, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell