TASMANIA

 

TYPE MINERALS:

Dundasite

  
Dundasite with crocoite
  
Dundasite with crocoite, ex. DeVito Collection
Origin: Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 2.5 x 2 cm x 3 mm (top), 3.5 x 2.5 x 1 cm (bottom)
© Tom Loomis
 
Origin: Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: sprays are 2 mm across
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
 
Dundasite with crocoite
Origin: Kapi mine, North Dundas, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: small crocoite crystals are only 0.3 mm long
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

 

Heazlewoodite

  
Brassy metalic heazlewoodite with interbanded awaruite. Green crust consists of zaratite.
  
Brassy metallic heazlewoodite with interbanded awaruite. Zaratite is the green crust. Mostly, the two are indistinguishable in hand specimen. This piece has been sawed in half probably as part of a polished section for ore microscopy.
Origin: Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: left 4 x 4 x 3 cm, right 6 x 3 x 2 cm (top), 5 x 4 x 2 cm (bottom)
© Tom Loomis
 
  
Matrix rich in metallic awaruite coated with bright green heazlewoodite
Origin: Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood district, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 5.7 x 2.4 x 1.5 cm
© Dan Weinrich

Hellyerite

Green botryoidal hellyerite
Origin: Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia
Picture size: 5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 
Origin: Lord Brassey, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
  
Light green fine crystal grains to less than 0.5 mm in a 3 x 1.5 cm area surrounded by emerald green scales of zaratite.
Origin: Lord Brassey mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia (type locality)
Ex. Kidwell collection
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 2 cm
© Tom Loomis

Mawsonite (Co-type)

Petterdite

When petterdite was first analysed, some of the material used was found at the same time as this piece, by the same person.
Origin: Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: field of view 1.5 cm
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Philipsbornite

Origin: Dundas, Tasmania
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Laurie Lawrence
Photo:  Pete Williams
© Steve Sorrell

Shandite

Stichtite

Origin: Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 4 cm
© Tom Loomis
 
Origin: Sticht Hill, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: thumbnails to 5.5 x 6.5 cm
© Diederik Visser
 
Origin: Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 6.5 cm in width
© Dan Weinrich
 
Aggregates of purple platy stichtite in serpentine matrix
Origin: Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 4 x 5 cm to ca. 4 x 9 cm
© Diederik Visser
 
  
Origin: Tunnel Hill, near Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 6.7 x 3.8 x 4.3 cm
© Dan Weinrich collection
 
Origin: Stichtite Hill, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: about 15 cm
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
  
Origin: Tunnel Hill, near Zeehan , Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 8.5 x 4 x 3 cm
© Tom Loomis

 

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