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....
Broken Hill Under the Scope is a presentation held on Zoom today, and is now available on YouTube…
I got a Mindat Photo of the Day with this aragonite specimen from Ben Lomond, New South Wales.
Greenockite is fairly common in Australian lead-zinc orebodies, but generally occurs as a bright yellow coating or crust. Woodlawn produced some of the nicest crystals that have been found, if not a little small. Deep red crystals on orange coatings over an even earlier spherical generation in cavities in sulphide...
By Eric von Werstak Feature image: F-6 Freeway at Mount Brown looking north where the vughs appeared. Introduction Mount Brown is situated near Dapto in the Illawarra District of the South Coast of New South Wales. It comprises of sandstones of volcanic derivation and lavas of the Berkeley Volcanics. The rocks crop...
The Elura mine (now known as the Endeavour Mine) near Cobar, New South Wales, was well-known in particular for its native silver and mimetite specimens. This 278 page thesis by Gernot Loidl, is a comprehensive work, looking the regional geology, the characteristics of the Elura orebody, the ore mineralogy and more. Featured...
Broken Hill based Trevor Dart has written a few articles on localities in his region. These include the following ones on Mindat: Rutile in the Broken Hill District, Trevor Dart The Huonville Sphene Pit, Trevor Dart The Often Overlooked Broken Hill Gahnites, Trevor Dart Featured image: The Huonville Sphene Pit. Members...
The late Margaret and Keith Brown of Echuca had many trips through New South Wales and Queensland, collecting minerals themselves, or swapping/purchasing with other mineral collectors. This post highlights specimens from their collection from lesser known localities in New South Wales. Featured image: Apophyllite, Oak Flats, New South Wales BoggabriAn area...
