mineral general info

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

OTHER MINERALS:

Books of light green crystals to one centimeter across, isolated on an ironstone matrix.

Origin: Mount Painter No. 2 workings, Mt Painter, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.3 x 2.8 cm

Golden fibrous pseudomorph replacement of cacoxenite by meurigite.

Origin: Tom's Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2 cm

© Tom Loomis

Origin: Iron Monarch open cut, Iron Knob, Middleback Range, Eyre peninsula, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: field of view 4 mm

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

© Steve Sorrell

Mimetite with malachite

Origin: Mt. Bonney, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: 4 x 2 x 3cm with fine yellow crystals to 1 mm

© Tom Loomis

Origin: Mt. Bonney, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 1 cm covered with yellow crystals to 1 mm

© Tom Loomis

Origin: St John's Quarry, nr. Kapunda, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: 6 x 3.3 x 1.4 cm

© John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Origin: Tom's Phosphate Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

© Steve Sorrell

Origin: Dome Rock, South Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

© Steve Sorrell

Reddish brown crude crystals (matrix) with smoky quartz crystals.

Origin: Radium Hill, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: 4 x 2 x 2.5 cm

© Tom Loomis

Origin: Boolcoomatta, South Australia, Australia
Erling Collection

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2 cm

© Tom Loomis

Origin: SE Australia

Picture height: 8 mm

Sample owner: W.R. Moorer

© Piet Stemvers

Origin: Andamooka, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm

© Tom Loomis

Opalized clam shell

Origin: Lightning Ridge, Australia

Sample size: 3 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm

© Rob Lavinsky

Opalized clams and gastropod

Origin: Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: 7.4 x 7.3 x 3.6 cm

© Rob Lavinsky

Opalized clams

Origin: Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: 2.4 x 2.0 x 1.1 cm (top/2nd row), 2.2 x 1.6 x 0.7 cm (3rd/4th row), 3.0 x 2.2 x 1.1 cm (5th row), 3.3 x 2.6 x 0.9 cm (6th row), 3.8 x 3.0 x 1.4 cm (bottom)

© Rob Lavinsky

Opalized clam

Opalized mollusc

Origin: Coober Pedy, South Australia., Australia

Sample size: 2.5 x 1.9 x 1.4 cm (top), 4.4 x 3.4 x 2.1 cm (largest) (2nd row), 2.5 x 2.0 x 1.4 cm (bottom)

© Rob Lavinsky

Opalized mollusc

Origin: Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia

Ex. Hauck collection

Sample size: 4.1 x 2.8 x 1.8 cm

© Rob Lavinsky

Opalised clam

Origin: Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.8 x 2.0 cm

© Rob Lavinsky

Origin: Coober-Pedy, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: 11.0 x 7.2 x 4.8 cm

© Rob Lavinsky

Origin: Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: 3.2 x 2.2 x 1.3 cm

© Rob Lavinsky

Parahopeite with scholzite

Origin: Reaphook Hill, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

© Steve Sorrell

Origin: Reaphook Hill, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: unknown

Sample owner: Kennedy Mineral Collection, Carleton University

© Steve Sorrell

Origin: Spring Creek mine, Wilmington, South Australia, Australia

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

© Lou Perloff/Photo-Atlas of Minerals

Tan to khaki crystal groups and crusts. Crystals to 1 mm.

Origin: Spring Creek Copper Mine, Wilmington, SA, Australia

Sample size: micromount

© Diederik Visser

Deep green, prismatic microcrystals. The malachite is also a deep green colour but occurs in spherical microcrystals.

Origin: Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, Flinders Range, South Australia, Australia

Ex. DeVito collection

Sample size: 2 x 2 x 1.5 cm

© Tom Loomis

Perloffite with cuprite, copper and quartz

Origin: Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: field of view 3 mm

Sample owner: Steve Sorrell

© Steve Sorrell

Pseudomalachite

Dark-green crystals after cuprite on malachite matrix

Origin: Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, South Australia, Australia

Sample size: thumbnail

© Diederik Visser

Quartz

Quartz pseudomorph after laumontite

Origin: Flinders Range, South Australia, Australia

Ex. Willard Perkin collection

Sample size: 33 mm in length

© Dan Weinrich

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