TASMANIA

 

OTHER MINERALS:

Datolite

Origin: Colebrook Hill, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Dickite

Origin: Luina, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Ferberite

Origin: Moina, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Ferroaxinite

  
Ferroaxinite with quartz
Origin: Colebrook mine, near Dundas, Tasmania, Australia
ex Scott Werschky collection
Sample size: 26 x 18 x 26 mm
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
Ferroaxinite with arsenopyrite, quartz and tremolite
Origin: Colebrook mine, Roseberry, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 30 x 13 x 23 mm
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
Ferroaxinite with minor arsenopyrite on chalcopyrite
Origin: Colebrook Mine, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia
ample size: 7.5 x 4 x 6.5 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
Ferro-axinite with arsenopyrite
Origin: Colebrook Mine, Colebrook Hill, Roseberry, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 6.7 x 5.4 x 5.2 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
Ferro-axinite
Origin: Colebrook Hill, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
  
Origin: Colebrook Mine, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 9 x 7 x 4.5 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
Origin: Prince Lyell Shaft, Mt. Lyell, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Fluorapophyllite

Origin: Redpa, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
 
Fluorite crystal on arsenopyrite
Origin: Princess Mine, Moina, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: crystal 0.8 mm across (top), 0.6 mm fluorite cube (bottom)
© Steve Sorrell

Gibbsite

  
Gibbsite on crocoite
Origin: Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 5.2 x 4.5 cm
© John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co
 
Origin: Dundas, Tasmania
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Mark Hallam
© Steve Sorrell

Gmelinite

Gmelinite in cavity in basalt
Origin: Fieldwicks Quarry, Weldborough, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: fiel of view about 3 mm
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
Origin: Weldborough, Tasmania
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
 

Goethite

Iridescent goethite coating a quartz crystal from the Greisen Face at this famous tin mine, once the largest tin mine in the world
Origin: Mt Bischoff, Waratah, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 2 mm long crystal
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Gold
 
Gold in fluorite
Origin: Hercules Mine, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Gonnardite

Gonnardite on thomsonite
Origin: Middlesex Plains, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Gorceixite

Gorceixite with crocoite
Origin: Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Greenockite

Greenockite with hawleyite
Origin: Magnet Mine, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Grossular

Grossular on wollastonite
Origin: Proctor's Road Quaary, Mt. Nelson, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Gypsum

Origin: Comet Mine, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Brian Carney
© Steve Sorrell

Harmotome

Origin: Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Hawleyite

See greenockite

Heulandite

Origin: Mersey Coal Mine, Fingal Valley, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Hinsdalite

Origin: Sylvester mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
© Lou Perloff/Photo-Atlas of Minerals
 
        
Hinsdalite (creamy coloured) with pyromorphite (greenish) (replacement of pyromorphite by hinsdalite?)
Origin: Sylvester mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2 cm, crystals less than 1 mm
© Tom Loomis
 
  
Hinsdalite pseudomorph after pyromorphite
Origin: Sylvester mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3.5 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
Crystals are up to 3mm long, replacing pyromorphite
Origin: Sylvester/Queen mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: crystals up to 3 mm
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
     
Hinsdalite pseudomorph after pyromorphite
Origin: Sylvester Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Ex. Gary Hansen collection
Sample size: 5.3 x 2.9 x 2.4 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Hinsdalite pseudomorph after pyromorphite
Origin: Sylvester Mine, near Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 6.6 x 5.4 x 1.6 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
Hydromagnesite crystals in a cavity in a vein of massive hydromagnesite
Origin: Nickel Reward Mine, Trial Harbour (Remine), Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: Crystals are 1 mm
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Hydroxyapophyllite

Origin: Cape Grim, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Brian Carney
© Steve Sorrell
 
Variety osmiridium (osmian iridium) with gold
Origin: Adamsfield, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
 
Origin: Leith, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Brian Carney
© Steve Sorrell

Ludwigite

Origin: Tenth Legion Skarn, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Magnesiochromite

Origin: Magnet Mine, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Magnetite

 
 
Origin: Kara Mine, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Melanterite

Origin: Razorback Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Mimetite

Origin: Magnet Mine, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Brian Carney
© Steve Sorrell

Monazite

Moanazite-(Ce)
Origin: All Nations Mine, Moina, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
Natrolite
 
Origin: Cape Grim, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 4 cm across
© Dan Weinrich
 
Origin: Stanley, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
  
Origin: Marrawah Basalt, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Marrawah Quarry, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 6.2 x 4.5 x 2.7 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
Origin: Cape Grim, Tasmania, Australia
Ex. Scott Williams collection
Sample size: 5.9 x 4.5 x 2.6 cm
© Dan Weinrich
Nontronite
 
Origin: Bridgewater, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Pharmacosiderite

Origin: Brittania Mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Phillipsite

Origin: Don Hill, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
  
Colourless opaque crystals of phillipsite and transparent glassy colorless crystals of analcime to 7 mm in size.
Origin: Cape Grim, West Coast, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 6 x 3.3 x 3 cm
© Dan Weinrich

Posnjakite

Origin: Hercules Mine, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Pumpellyite

Origin: Longley, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Pyrite

Pyrite on calcite
Origin: Renison Bell Mine, near Dundas, Tasmania, Australia
Ex. M. Zinn collection
Sample size: 5.25 x 4 x 2.2 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
Pyrite on quartz
Origin: Renison, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Pyrolusite
 
Origin: Platt Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Pyromorphite

     
Pyromorphite with crocoite
Origin: Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: 7 x 4 cm
© John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co
 
  
 
  
Origin: Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Ex. DeVito Collection
Sample size: 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm (top), 4 x 4 x 4 cm (bottom)
© Tom Loomis
Pyromorphite with minor crocoite
Origin: Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia
Sample size: field of view 2 mm
Sample owner: Vic Cloete
© Vic Cloete

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