MINERALS FROM AUSTRALASIA  Updated SEPTEMBER 20, 2002
 
MINERAL NUMBER MINERAL NAME LOCATION DESCRIPTION
815 ADAMITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Lustrous green crystals forming spherical groups on a limonitic matrix.  (N, E, U)  $4.00
50815 ADAMITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Lustrous green crystals forming spherical groups on a limonitic matrix in a 3.8x3.2x3.0 cm box.  1 ONLY ! @ $6.00
819 ANGLESITE Block 14, Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia groups of tiny highly lustrous colourless crystals on matrix.  (N, E, U)  $4.00
851 ATACAMITE Mount Gunson, Woomera, South Australia, Australia Lustrous dark green crystals and groups on matrix. (1N, 4E) - $4.00, $5.00
820 BAYLDONITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Light emerald green to darker green groups and spherules on matrix.  (N, E, 1U)  $4.00
834 BROCHANTITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Drusy coatings of tiny (30x) blue-green flattened, tabular crystals.  (N, E, U)  $4.00
830 CHABAZITE-Na Bundoora Quarry, Victoria Formerly "Herschelite" - coloulress twinned crystals - clear edges, frosted tops +/-Gonnardite/Natrolite spheres, Thomsonite, Analcime and Calcite. (E, 1U)  $6.00
818 CHLORARGYRITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Very fine stacks of pale greenish-yellow crystals on matrix.  (N, U)  $5.00
802 DECRESPIGNYITE (Y) paratoo Mine, Olary, South Australia NEW MINERAL! (Y,REE)4Cu(CO3)4Cl(OH)5.2H2).  Groups of tiny (30x) sky-blue spheres on matrix.  (See Mineralogical Record, Feb. 2002 - pp181-188)  (N, E)  $12.00;  $16.00
50802 DECRESPIGNYITE (Y) paratoo Mine, Olary, South Australia NEW MINERAL! (Y,REE)4Cu(CO3)4Cl(OH)5.2H2).  Larger matrix pieces in 3.8x3.2x3.0 cm boxes.  $20.00 each.
801 DUFRENITE Tom's Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia Lustrous, black, curved crystals and crystal groups on gossan.  ( E, U) - $4.00
816 FERRIANVARISCITE Iron Monarch Pit, Iron Knob, South Australia Pale pink to deep rose-red crystals and druses and spherical aggregates on matrix.  (N)  $5.00  
814 GIBBSITE Iron Baron Pit, Iron Knob, South Australia Reniform and stalactitic groups made up of individual colourless Gibbsite crystals on matrix.  (N, E)  $4.00
821 IODARGYRITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Tiny (30x) coloulress to very pale yellow, highly lustrous crystals on Coronadite.  (E, U)  $6.00
840 LIBETHENITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales Groups and sprays of very thin prismatic - almost acicular - silky light green crystals on Quartz-rich matrix.  (N, E, U)  $5.00
833 MIMETITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales Highly lustrous colourless to pale yellow prismatic crystals on matrix.   (E, U)  $4.00
771 MORDENITE Todd's Quarry, Darganville, North Island, New Zealand Silky, lustrous acicular crystals in vugs in basalt.  (1N)  $4.00
832 PHARMACOSIDERITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales Druses of tiny (30x) pale yellow-green to almost colourless crystals on matrix.  (E, U)  $4.00
837 PYROMORPHITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales groups, sprays and individual creamy-white crystals with a lustrous sheen on Quartz.  (E, U)  $4.00
838 ROCKBRIDGEITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales Clusters and/or botryoids of grey-black crystals (30x).  (N, E, U)  $4.00
836 ROSASITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales Groups of beautiful botryoidal "sea-green" to "sky-blue" crystals on matrix.  (N, U)  $4.00
827 SCHOLTZITE Reaphook Hill, South Australia, Australia Colourless, bladed crystal groups on matrix. (2N) - $4.00
811 SILVER Level 1, Eleura Mine, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia Very fine groups of arborescent crystals.  (1N)  $5.00
831 SMITHSONITE Block 14, Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales Very fine, colourless to white tapering curved crystals.  Often doubly terminated.  (N, E, U)  $4.00
824 SPHALERITE Mount Gunson Copper Mine, South Australia Splendent complex crystals; usually with irridescence from Cu secondaries.    (3E) - $7.00
835 TSUMEBITE Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales Groups and clusters of tiny (30x) highly lustrous turquoise-blue crystals.  (E, U)  $6.00