VICTORIA

 

OTHER MINERALS:

Gold

  
Nugget
Origin: 40-50 km north of Bendigo, Victoria goldfields, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 2 x 1 x 0.6 cm, weight: approx. 5 grams
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Bendigo Gold Fields, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 5.7 x 3 x 1.9 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Gold on quartz
  
 
     
 
  
 
        
 
  
 
  
Origin: Bendigo Gold Fields, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 5.2 x 3.6 x 1.6 cm (top), 2.8 x 2.5 x 0.6 cm (2nd row), 6.7 x 3.3 x 1 cm (3rd row), 7.5 x 1.6 x 0.9 cm (4th row), 7.5 x 6.1 x 1.8 cm (5th row), 9 x 5.5 x 1 cm (6th row), 10 x 4.6 x 2.2 cm (bottom)
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Bendigo Goldfields, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 10.6 x 5.5 x 1.9 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: near Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 6.1 x 2.2 x 1.6 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
     
Origin: East Gold fields near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Ex. Ed David collection
Sample size: 3.0 x 3.0 x 1.3 cm

Gonnardite

Origin: Boral quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Owner: Milton Speckels
Microscopic image, 6.9 x
© Milton Speckels/Photo-Atlas of Minerals
 
        
Origin: Boral Quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 3.1 x 2.8 x 2.8 cm
© Rob Lavinsky

 

 
Gypsum
     
Origin: Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia
Ex Tom Dwyer Collection
Sample size: 10 x 8 x 7.5 cm
© Dan Weinrich

Halite

  
Glauberite on halite
Origin: Linga, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 2 mm
Sample owner: Theo Kloprogge
© Theo Kloprogge

Ilmenite

A nice platey crystal of ilmenite perched on andesine(?).
Origin: Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: field of view 2 mm
Sample owner: Keith & Margaret Brown
© Steve Sorrell
Meurigite
 
Origin: Wycheproof, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Montgomeryite

Origin: Parwan Cave, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Natrolite

  
Natrolite with gmelinite
Origin: Flinders, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3.5 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
Bright blue connellite on natrolite
Origin: Cairns Bay, Flinders, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: field of view 2 mm
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
     
Origin: Flinders, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 1 cm
© Tom Loomis

Opal

Hyalite opal
Origin: Boral Limited quarry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: field of view 4 mm
Sample owner: Keith and Margaret Brown
© Steve Sorrell
 
 
Origin: Glenrowan, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: field of view 9 mm (top), field of view 2 mm (bottom)
Sample owner: Keith and Margaret Brown
© Steve Sorrell

Phillipsite

Penetration twin
Origin: Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Owner: Milton Speckels
Microscopic image, 5.0 x
© Milton Speckels/Photo-Atlas of Minerals
Pickeringite
 
Origin: Bullengarook, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Quartz

     
Smoky quartz on quartz
Origin: Mooralla, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 2.5 x 1.7 cm
© John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co
 
  
Smoky quartz
Origin: Moralla, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 17 x 15 x 18 mm (left), 27 x 22 x 24 mm (right)
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
Smoky quartz crystal in open half geode
Origin: Moralla, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 31 x 27 x 22 mm
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
  
 
  
Smoky quartz in geode half lined with colourless quartz
Origin: Moralla, Black River, NW of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 7.6 x 6.5 x 5 cm (top/2nd row), 8.3 x 7.7 x 3.5 cm (bottom)
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
Origin: Mooralla, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 7.2 x 6.1 x 3.8 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
 
Origin: Moralla, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 29 mm long (top left), 25 mm tall (top right), 28 mm tall (bottom)
© John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co
 
  
Smoky quartz
Origin: Moralla, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 24 x 20 x 33 mm
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
Smoky quartz in rhyolite geode
Origin: Mooralla, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 5.7 x 5.6 x 3.9 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Moralla, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 2.3 x 1.6 x 3.1 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
Origin: Moralla, Victoria, Australia
Ex. S. Nasser collection
Sample size: 2.7 x 2.3 x 1.9 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
  
Origin: Moralla, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 2.3 x 1.8 x 4 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
  
Origin: Moralla, Victoria, Australia
Ex. Scott Williams collection
Sample size: 25 x 24 x 24 mm
© Dan Weinrich
 
     
Origin: Anderson Gully, Mooralla, Victoria, Australia
Ex. Marty Lewadny collection
Sample size: 7.7 x 6.8 x 3.8 cm
© Rob Lavinsky
 
     
Origin: Moralla, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 2.9 x 3.5 x 4.1 cm
© Dan Weinrich
 
 
Origin: Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 
Saleeite
 
Saleeite with smoky quartz and orthoclase
Saleeite under LW-UV
Origin: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 90 mm
Sample owner: Keith and Margaret Brown
© Steve Sorrell
 

Sampleite

 
 
Origin: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: crystals to 2 mm (top), crystals to 2 mm (bottom)
Specimen collected by K & M Brown of Echuca in the 1990s
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
Strengite
Origin: Phosphate Hill, Mansfield, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: unknown
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Taranakite

Origin: Parwan lava caves, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: field of view 4 mm
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell
 

Torbernite

Origin: Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: field of view 2 mm (top), unknown (bottom)
Sample owner: Steve Sorrell
© Steve Sorrell

Vivianite

  
Origin: Hamilton, Victoria, Australia
Sample size: 8 x 4 x 5.5 cm
© Dan Weinrich

 

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