QUEENSLAND

OTHER MINERALS:

Molybdenite

Origin: Lane mine, Wolfram Camp, Queensland, Australia

ex Scott Werschky collection

Sample size: 25 x 25 mm

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: Wolfram Camp., Dimbullah, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 6.5 x 5.5 x 4.6 cm

Molybdenite on quartz

Origin: Wolfram Camp, North Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 8.1 x 7.2 x 6.0 cm

Molybdenite with bismuth

Origin: Wolfram Camp, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 5.2 x 2.7 x 2.2 cm

Origin: Lane Mine, Wolfram Camp, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 2.9 x 2.7 x 1.6 cm

Origin: Wolfram Camp, Queensland, Australia

Ex. Gene Meieran collection

Sample size: 16.7 x 10.0 x 9.5 cm

Namibite

Namibite with bismutite, quartz and limonite

Origin: Alone Hand Mine, Malborn, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 7 mm

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Natrodufrenite

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

Sample size: crystals to 0.4 mm long

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Nantokite

Nantokite altering to green powder of atacamite in cuprite and copper

Origin: Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 8 mm

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Natrolite

Natrolite crystals to 3 mm over analcime in a 1 2 mm cavity

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

Sample size: field of view 2 mm

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Opal

Fossilized clam replaced by precious opal.

Origin: Coober Peddy, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 0.6 cm

Origin: Yowah, Quensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Variety hyalite

Origin: Squaretop Mountain, Dalby (Kiamkillenbun ?), Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 20 mm tall (top), 25 mm tall (bottom)

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Black opal

Origin: Lightning Ridge Field, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2.2 cm

Origin: Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 11.3 x 6.9 x 5.5 cm

Origin: Square Top Mountain, Kaimkellenbun, Dalby district, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 27 mm (top left), 8 mm (top middle), 8 mm (top right), 19 mm (bottom)

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Palygorskite

Origin: Pics Crossing, Burner, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: micromount

Paratacamite

Paratacamite as commonly associated with leucophosphite from this locality

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

Sample size: field of view 3 mm (top), field of view 6 mm (bottom)

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Pharmacolite

Origin: Mt. Cobalt, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Kennedy Mineral Collection, Carleton University

Phurcalite

Phurcalite with torbernite

Origin: Monokoff Mine, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Phurcalite with torbernite

Origin: Monokoff Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 7 mm

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Pseudomalachite

Origin: Hardway Mine, Mt. Isa District, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: thumbnail

Pseudomalachite on chrysocolla

Origin: Mt. Glorious Mine, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 2.9 x 2.2 x 1.8 cm

Green coating of pseudomalachite on the front side (above) and backside associated with libethenite crystals to 0.75 mm.

Origin: Hardways mine, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm

Origin: Hardway Mine, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Pseudomalachite on chrysocolla

Origin: Mt. Glorious Mine, Queensland, Australia

Ex. Carl Davis collection

Sample size: 2.6 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm

Pseudomalachite with chalcedony

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

Sample size: fov 8 mm

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Pyrite

Pyrite with calcite and magnetite

Origin: Mt Biggenden Mine, Biggenden Shire, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 9.5 cm

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Pyrolusite

Pyrolusite covered with tiny quartz crysals

Origin: Warwick, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: field of view 19 mm (left), 3 mm (2nd photo), 3 mm (3rd photo), 0.7 mm (4th photo), 3 mm (last photo)

Sample owner: Sue and Phil Ericksson

Pyromorphite

Origin: Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

Ex. Marvin Pearce coll.

Sample size: 15 x 15 x 30 mm

Quartz

Origin: Lane mine, Wolfram Camp, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 24 mm in height

Origin: Crystal Mtn., Mt. Isa, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 13.4 x 7.7 x 3.8 cm

Rosasite

Origin: Galgoa Mine, Woolooga, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: field of view 9 mm (left), 6 mm (right)

Sample owner: Sue and Phil Ericksson

Rutile

Rutile on quartz

Origin: Silver Phantom Mine, Malborn, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 8 mm

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Scheelite

Origin: Wolfram Camp, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 3.8 x 1.6 x 2.5 cm

Schorl

Origin: May Downs Station, Mt. Isa, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 12.3 x 9.0 x 7.0 cm

Origin: Mary Kathleen Mine, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 6.7 x 3.9 x 3.0 cm

Sepiolite

Origin: Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Siderite

A twinned siderite crystal with powdery atacamite, usually formed soon after nantokite is exposed to air.

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

Sample size: 2 mm crystal

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Smolianovite

Origin: Mt. Cobalt, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: thumbnail with yellow crust

Orange earthy smolianinovite with erythrite on and in matrix

Origin: Mt. Cobalt Mine, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 3.5 x 5 cm

Smolianinovite pseudomorph after erythrite, with heterogenite and mansfieldite

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

Sample size: Crystals are up to 2 mm long

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Spangolite

See connellite

Stolzite

Light yellow prismatic, glassy, excellent crystals to 3 mm

Origin: Kagara Zinc mine, Balcooma o/c, Lynnd Junction, North Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm

Tenorite

Tenorite with cuprite and chrysocolla

Origin: Mount McCabe Mine, Malborn, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: fov 8 mm

Sample owner: Queensland Micromineral Museum, Queensland Mineralogical Society

Tilleyite

Grey crystalline tilleyite in calcite

Origin: Redcap Creek, 15 km NW Chillagoe, N. Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 3.5 x 4.5 cm

Torbernite

Torbernite with fluorite

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

Sample size: crystal < 1 mm (top), about 1 mm crystal (2nd row), slighly larger than 1 mm crystal (3rd row), field of view about 1.5 mm (bottom)

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Turquoise

Libethenite on turquoise

Origin: Gunpowder, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

A crystalline turquoise sphere, a spray of transparent leucophosphite and a yellow quartz

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

Sample size: field of view 2 mm

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

Variscite

Origin: Mt. Oxide, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

Wavellite

Wavellite clusters to 1 mm blanketting turquoise crystals

Wavellite can be locally prolific. The usual associated minerals on which it forms, leucophosphite and turquoise are not even visible beneath this dense mat of ~2 mm clusters

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

Sample size: 80 x 30 mm (top), about 2 mm clusters (bottom)

Sample owner: Vic Cloete

White wavellite sprays to about 0.5 mm on brown leucophosphite with green turquoise or variscite.

Origin: Mount Oxide, Mt. Isa district, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 1 cm

Wolframite

Origin: Wolfram Camp, Queensland, Australia

ex Scott Werschky collection

Sample size: 13 x 7 x 25 mm

Wupatkiite

Acicular crystals in pink sprays to 2 mm with excellent coverage. Specimen collected by Vic Cloete.

Origin: Lorena mine, Queensland, Australia

Sample size: 2.5 x 1 x 1 cm (top), 4.5 x 3.5 x 1 cm (bottom)

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