…is now available here. There are more than 1,560 species recorded in Australia, and this publication aims to illustrate more than half of those. Australia also has 202 Type Locality minerals (and counting). There are 367 full-colour pages in this third volume and it includes the minerals from gadolinite through to...
The Illustrated Minerals of Australia – Volume 2 – Electronic Edition is now available here. There are more than 1,550 species recorded in Australia, and this publication aims to illustrate more than half of those. Australia also has 191 Type Locality minerals (and counting). There are 277 full-colour pages in...
A short video highlighting some of the minerals included in the first volume of the Illustrated Minerals of Australia. Much gratitude goes to all of the people that have provided specimens and/or photos!
Now available here. There are more than 1,500 species recorded in Australia, and this publication aims to illustrate more than half of those. Australia also has 186 Type Locality minerals (and counting). There are 715 full-colour pages in this first volume and it includes the minerals from acanthite through to cyrilovite....
Crocoite and pyromorphite from the Platt Mine, Dundas, Tasmania revealed in all its glory.
There are many localities where you can find cerussite in Australia, and it is common in many other parts of the world. Cerussite is a lead carbonate mineral which is by and large found in the oxidized zone of lead-zinc ore deposits. Typically colourless to white in colour, cerussite may...
…is on this coming weekend. I will be there demonstrating my mineral artwork.
This video is focussed on the Platt Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, best known for its specimens of crocoite and pyromorphite. It takes me back. I collected underground here at the Platt Mine many many years ago. I was in the pyromorphite zone with my daughter and then leaseholder, Bruce Stark, when...
Last weekend, I headed over to South Australia to visit the Tea Tree Gully Gem and Mineral Club Show. Here is a short video report…
This Collector’s Guide is now available as either an electronic issue or as a printed book. The Lake Boga quarry in northwest Victoria has been known to produce a range of interesting minerals. More than 70 species have been identified, including copper and uranium phosphates amongst others. Three minerals have...
Gold, n.:“A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn’t done anything to them.“ Mike Harding, “The Armchair Anarchist’s Almanac”...
Went out for a drive today to see the Byaduk Caves on the western slope of Mount Napier, western Victoria. Mount Napier is thought to have erupted around 40,000 years ago, so geologically is still young. The volcano is mainly a lava shield with a breached scoria cone. Lava flowed...
