SOUTH AUSTRALIA

 

 

Francisite

  
Origin: Iron Monarch iron mine, Iron Knob, South Australia, Australia (type locality)
Ex. DeVito Collection
Sample size: 2 x 1.5 x 1 cm
© Tom Loomis
 
  
Origin: Iron Monarch Mine, Iron Knob, South Australia, Australia (type locality)
Ex. Mark Feinglos collection
Sample size: 1.7 x 1.4 x 0.9 x cm
© Rob Lavinsky

Gatehouseite

Johntomaite

Kingite

Origin: Robertstown, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Kennedy Mineral Collection, Carleon University
© Steve Sorrell
 
  
Origin: Clinton Phosphate Workings, Roberstown, South Australia, Australia
Ex. Kidwell collection
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 4 cm
© Tom Loomis
 
  
Origin: near Robertson, South Australia, Australia
Ex. Polak collection
Sample size: 5.5 x 4 x 3 cm
 © Tom Loomis

Kleemanite

Manganochromite

Musgravite

Peisleyite

Origin: Tom's Phosphate quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm
© Tom Loomis

Pseudorutile

Roxbyite

Tarnished black roxbyite in matrix
Origin: Roxby Downs, Olymic Dam Deposit, South Australia, Australia (type locality)
Sample size: Capsule
© Diederik Visser

Spriggsite

Springcreekite

Sulvanite

 

OTHER MINERALS:

Adamite

 
Origin: Puttapa, South Australia, Australia
Sample size:  unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
Adamite crystal clusters in willemite matrix
Origin: Puttapa deposit, Leigh Creek South, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Sample size 3 mm crystal
Sample owner: Vic Cloete
© Vic Cloete
Agardite
 
Origin: Dome Rock, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Andalusite

  
Origin: Mount Howden Mine, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 2.3 x 2.1 x 5.8 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
Origin: Mount Howden Mine, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 2.4 x 2 x 5.7 cm
© Dan Weinrich

 

Atacamite

  
Origin: Moonta Mine, Moonta, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Sample size: 4 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Mount Gunson Mine, Mt Gunson, Stuart Shelf area, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 4 x 2.75 x 2.75 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Mt. Gunson, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 2 x 4.5 cm (left), 3.5  x 4 cm (right)
© Diederik Visser
 
Origin: Mt. Gunson mine, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 10.5 x 5 x 3 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
Atacamite stalactite
  
 
  
Origin: Mt. Gunson, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 7.8 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm (top), 9 x 8 x 3.3 cm (middle), 13.0 x 10.3 x 3.3 cm (bottom)
© Rob Lavinsky
 
        
Origin: New Cornwall Mine, Kadina, Wallaroo Dist., South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 6.6 x 5.2 x 3.0 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Mt. Gunson, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 10.0 x 8.8 x 2.1 cm
 
  
Origin: Mt Gunson, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 12.3 x 6.6 x 1.6 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Olary, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 5.2 x 2.3 x 3.8 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
Origin: Mt. Gunson Copper Mine, South Australia, Australia
Ex. Keith Hayes collection
Sample size: 5 x 3.9 x 1.7 cm
© John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co
 
  
Origin: Wallaroo Mine, Kadina, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 4 x 2.5 x 3 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
Origin: Mt. Gunson, South Australia, Australia
Ex. M. Zinn collection
Sample size: 6.1 x 3.2 x 2.2 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
    
Origin: Burra Burra Mine, Mt Lofty Ranges, New South Wales, Australia
Ex. M. Zinn collection
Sample size: 4.8 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
Origin: Mt. Gunsen, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
Origin: Mount Gunson Mine, Mt Gunson, Stuart Shelf area, Andamooka Ranges - Lake Torrens area, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 15 x 7.5 x 4 cm
Owner: Steve Rust
© Steve Rust
 
Origin: Billy Springs Mine, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Austinite

Origin: Puttapa, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
  
Origin: Mt. Painter, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 3 x 3 x 3 cm
© Tom Loomis
 

Azurite

  
Origin: Burra,, South Australia, Australia
Eaton Collection
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2 cm
© Tom Loomis
 
Origin: Burra Burra, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 12 x 10 x 15 mm
© Dan Weinrich
 
Origin: Daly Mine, Yudnamutana District, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 60 x 60 x 55 mm
Sample owner: K & M Brown
© Steve Sorrell

Brannerite

  
Greenish brown glassy mass - metamict.
Origin: Crocker's Well East, Olary Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 1 cm
© Tom Loomis

 

Calcioferrite

 
Pale yellow crystals forming spherical masses in cavities in matrix
Origin: “Klemm’s” Moculta Phosphate Quarry, Angaston, S.A., Australia
Sample size: 2 x 2 cm matrix (top), 1.5 x 2 cm (bottom)
© Diederik Visser
 
Carnotite
  
Light yellow, sparse powdery coating on black, heavy davidite
Origin: Radium Hill, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 4 x 2.5 x 2 cm
© Tom Loomis
 
  
Yellow earthy crust on dark, black davidite matrix
Origin: Olary, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 4.5 x 4 x 2 cm
© Tom Loomis
 
Origin: Radium Hill, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Chalcocite
 
Origin: Mt. Gunsen, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Chenevixite

Origin: Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
Clinoclase
     
Origin: Dome Rock Copper Mine, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 3.3 x 2.2 x 0.8 cm - largest
© Rob Lavinsky
 
Origin: Dome Rock, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Conichalcite

           
Gold with conichalcite
Origin: Dome Rock Copper Mine, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 7.8 x 6.0 x 5.5 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
Origin: Dome Rock Cu Mine, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 110 mm wide
Sample owner: K & M Brown
© Steve Sorrell
Copper
 
Copper with cuprite
Origin: Spring Creek Copper Mine, Wilmington, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
Cornubite
 
Lime green cornubite balls with dark green cornwallite crystals in matrix
Origin: Arkaroola, SA, Australia
Sample size: thumbnail
© Diederik Visser
 
Origin: Arkaroola, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Cornwallite
 
See Cornubite
 
Coronadite
 
  
Coronadite with scholzite
Origin: Reaphook Hill, Martins Well, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 3.9 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm
© Dan Weinrich

Cuprite

Origin: Spring Creek mine, Wilmington, South Australia, Australia
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
© Lou Perloff/Photo-Atlas of Minerals
 
Cyrilovite
 
  
Cyrilovite as sugary yellow replacements after strengite, a bit of strengite is visible in the upper right of the right photo.
Origin: Iron Knob, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 8 x 4 x 4 cm
© Tom Loomis

Davidite

See Carnotite

Ernstite

Yellow-brown radiating aggregates, with minor eosphorite in matrix
Origin: St. John's Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 2 x 2 cm
© Diederik Visser

Eosphorite

See ernstite

Faustite

Origin: Iron Monarch, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Fluellite

Origin: Tom's quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
© Lou Perloff/Photo-Atlas of Minerals
 
Origin: Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 2.5 cm
© Tom Loomis
 
     
Origin: Tom's Quarry, nr. Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
ex - Mike Groben Collection
Sample size: 3.7 x 2.6 x 1.5 cm
© John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co
 
        
Origin: Tom"s Quarry, Kapunda, Mt. Lofty Range, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 6.3 x 3.7 x 3.2 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
Origin: Tom's Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
Gold
           
Gold with conichalcite
Origin: Dome Rock Copper Mine, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 7.8 x 6.0 x 5.5 cm
© Rob Lavinsky

 

Gypsum

  
Green selenite
Origin: Whyalla Norrie, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 15 x 11.5 x 3.5 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
        
Origin: Whyalla Norrie, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 21.1 x 16.2 x 9.1 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
     
Selenite phantom crystal with a spike of mineral-included calcite in the middle
  
Extended arrowhead twin crystal
Origin: Lake Gilles, South Australia, Australia
Ex. Marty Lewadny Collection
Sample size: 9.2 x 3.5 x 2.9 cm (top/2nd row), 6.8 x 3.3 x 3.3 cm (bottom)
© Rob Lavinsky
 
     
Origin: Whyalla Norrie, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 13.0 x 10.0 x 7.0 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
     
Origin: Lake Gilles, Corunna Station, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 2.3 cm
© Dan Weinrich collection
 
        
Hourglas twinned gypsum crystal
Origin: Lake Gilles, South Australia, Australia
Ex. Marty Lewadny collection
Sample size: 8.8 x 4.5 x 3.7 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Green gypsum
Origin: Pernattys Lagoon, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 9.6 x 8.2 x 1.7 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Pernattys Lagoon, South Australia
Sample size: 8.5 x 7.4 x 1.8 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
     
Gypsum twin
Origin: Lake Gilles, South Australia, Australia
Ex. Marty Lewadny collection
Sample size: 6.9 x 6.8 x 4.4 cm
 
  
Origin: Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 9.4 x 7.2 x 3.9 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
     
Gypsum with phantoms
Origin: Whyalla Norrie, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 10.4 x 9.6 x 7.2 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Gypsum twin
Origin: Lake Gilles, Corunna Station, Lake Gairdner area, South Australia, Australia
Ex. Marty Lewadny collection
Sample size: 9.8 x 6 x 4.1 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
     
Origin: Whyalla Norrie, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 10.3 x 8..8 x 7.9 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
     
This specimen formed in two generations as an evaporate from a pool of gypsum-rich water that was run-off from sedimentary bedrock - first, as yellow crystals, and later, as superimposed orange ones.
Origin: Whyalla Norrie, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 10.8 x 7.4 x 4.9 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
Halite
 
Origin: York Peninsula, South Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Hedyphane

  
  
This specimen of siliceoud breccia has exposed veins with tabular crystals of hedyphane and micro crystals of drusy willemite.
Origin: Puttapa Zinc Mine, Flinders Range, SA, Australia
Sample size: 7 x 6 x 3.6 cm
© John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co
 
Origin: Puttapa, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
Hematite
  
"Kidney ore"
Origin: Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Ex. Marty Lewadny Collection
Sample size: 5.5 x 4.3 x 3.8 cm
© Rob Lavinsky

Hemimorphite

Origin: Puttapa, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Hentschelite
 
Origin: Spring Creek Copper Mine, Wilmington, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Ilmenorutile

Origin: Dome Rock, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Jacobsite

  
Origin: Iron Knob, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 2.5 x 2.1 x 1.9 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
Origin: Iron Monarch, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
Kamphaugite-(Y)
 
  
Creamy white micro crystals to less than 0.5 mm in an area of 1 x 1.5 cm.
  
Creamy white micro crystals to less than 0.75mm associated with blue platy decrespignyite-(Y) and malachite.
Origin: Paratoo Copper mine, Olary district, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 4 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm (top), 5 x 3 x 3 cm (bottom)
© Tom Loomis

Lavendulan

Origin: Dome Rock, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Lepidocrocite

Origin: Iron Monarch quarry, Iron Knob, South Australia
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3 cm
© Tom Loomis

Magnetite

  
Origin: Arkaroola, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 5.4 x 4.6 x 2.7 cm
© Rob Lavinsky

 

Malachite

     
Complex skeletal crystal of malachite pseudomorph after azurite
Origin: Near Blinman, South Australia, Australia
Ex. Rick Green collection
Sample size: 4 x 2.5 x 1.7 cm
© John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co
 
  
Azurite pseudomorph after azurite
Origin: Sir Dominic Mine, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Ex. M. Dodge collection
Sample size: 2 x 1.7 x 0.4 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
 
Origin: Burra Burra Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 90 x 60 x 50 mm
Sample owner:  Keith and Margeret Brown
© Steve Sorrell
 
     
Malachite pseudomorph after azurite
Origin: Sir Dominick Mine, South Australia, Australia
Ex. Willard Perkin collection
Sample size: 25 x 18 x 21 mm
© Dan Weinrich
 
     
Malachite pseudomorph after azurite
Origin: Sir Dominic Mine, Flinders Range, South Australia, Australia
Ex. Richard Hauck collection
Sample size: 3.8 x 3.7 x 3.0 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Malachite pseudomorph after azurite
Origin: Blinman, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Sample size: 15 x 22 x 25 mm
© Dan Weinrich
 

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