VICTORIA
TYPE MINERALS:
Bleasdaleite
Dittmarite
Origin: Skipton Caves, Victoria
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Kennedy Mineral Collection, Carleton University
© Steve Sorrell
Hannayite
Maldonite
Newberyite
Origin: Skipton Caves, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 3 cm
© Tom Loomis
Origin: Skipton Lava Caves, Victoria, Australia (type locality)
Sample size: 5.2 x 3.7 x 3 cm (top), 3.2 x 2.5 x 1.9 cm (bottom)
© Rob Lavinsky
Origin: Skipton Lava Caves, Skipton, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 2.3 x 2.5 x 4 cm
© Dan Weinrich
Origin: Skipton Caves, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 1.3 x 2 cm
© Diederik Visser
Schertelite
Selwynite
Ulrichite
Origin: Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
Ulrichite in granite. This extremely rich specimen for the species was found
in the type occurrence by the discoverer, Australian mineral collector and
gold dealer Anthony Fraser. It is from the type pocket, and was found with the
type specimens , and resided in Fraser's collection until recently when he
parted with it.
Origin: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia (type
locality)
Sample size: 5.3 x 4.4 x 3.8 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
Light green platy crystals to 1 mm in vug.
DeVito Collection
Origin: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia (type locality)
Sample size: 1 x 1 x 1 cm (top), 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm (2nd row), 2 x 1.5 x 1.5
cm (3rd/bottom row)
© Tom Loomis
Granite matrix hosting small "patches" of greenish massive ulrichite and minor
saleeite.
Origin: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.3 x 2 cm
© Dan Weinrich
Origin: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: crystals to 3 mm
Specimen collected by K & M Brown of Echuca in the 1990s
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Wycheproofite
OTHER MINERALS:
Analcime
Origin: Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: field of view 2 mm
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Aragonite
Spray of aragonite in cavity in basalt
Origin: Rosslynne Reservoir, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: field of view 9 mm
Sample owner: Keith & Margaret Brown
© Steve Sorrell
Basaluminite
Origin: Coimidai Antimony Mine, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: crystal aggregates are up to 2 mm across
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Origin: Phosphate Hill, Mansfield, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Orange calcite hemisphere with white
aragonite
Origin: Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: calcite 2 cm across
Sample owner: Keith & Margaret Brown
© Steve Sorrell
Origin: Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: crystals up to 7 mm long (top), A 60 mm wide cavity full of
ferroan calcite crystals (bottom)
Sample owner: Keith & Margaret Brown
© Steve Sorrell
A nicely zoned spray (10mm across) of ferroan calcite with greyish phacolitic
chabazite
(probably Na) crystals. The Zeolites of Victoria book (Birch et al 1989)
suggests that all Melbourne
chabazites
have Na > Ca however no specific analyses are given for Bundoora
chabazites.
Origin: Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 10 mm calcite spray
Sample owner: Keith & Margaret Brown
© Steve Sorrell
Chabazite
Origin: Boral quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Owner: Milton Speckels
Microscopic image, 6.1 x
Variety Phacolite (Ca-rich)
Origin: Flinders area, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 16.8 x 11.6 x 2.3 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
Greyish phacolitic chabazite (probably Na) crystals in the left-hand cavity.
Ferroan
calcite in the right hand cavity
Origin: Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 90 mm across
Sample owner: Keith & Margaret Brown
© Steve Sorrell
Phacolite is a lens-shaped variety of chabazite characterized by
twinning/multiple twinning of the rhombohedrons.
Origin: Corporation Quarry, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
Ex. Marty Lewadny collection
Sample size: 4.0 x 3.3 x 1.8 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
Variety phacolite
Origin: Collingwood, Flinders, Victoria, Australia
Ex. Martin Zinn and National Museum of Victoria collections
Sample size: 4.3 x 3.5 x 2 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
Bright blue balls of connellite on
analcime
Origin: Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: field of view 2 mm (top), field of view 2 mm (bottom)
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Crandallite
Origin: Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Cyrilovite
Origin: Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Glauberite
Origin: Linga, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 2 mm
Sample owner: Theo Kloprogge
© Theo Kloprogge
Gmelinite
Origin: Flinders, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: left 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm, right 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm
© Tom Loomis
Origin: Flinders, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 4 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm
© Dan Weinrich
Origin: Cairn's Bay, Flinders, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm
© Dan Weinrich
Origin: Flinders, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 7.4 x 5.8 x 2.7 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
Origin: Flinders, Victoria, Australia
Ex. Ed Rosenzweig collection
Sample size: 4.2 x 3.3 x 3.0 cm
© John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co
Gold
Nugget
Origin: 40-50 km north of Bendigo, Victoria goldfields, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 6.25 x 3.5 x 2 cm, weight: 135 grams (top), 8 x 3 x 2.5 cm,
weight: 193 grams (middle), 10.25 x 6 x 3 cm, weight: 703 grams
© Rob Lavinsky
Origin: near Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
ex. Matthew Webb collection
Sample size: 2.1 x 1.1 x 1 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
Origin: 40-50 km north of Bendigo, Victoria goldfields, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 6.25 x 3.5 x 2 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
Origin: Victoria Goldfields, near Bendigo, Australia
Sample size: 3.6 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
Origin: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 2.6 x 2.4 x 1.2 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
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