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…
Ballarat Gem Club Show…
…is on this coming weekend. I will be there demonstrating my mineral artwork.
A Collector’s Guide to the Minerals of Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia
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…
Gold in Victoria
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…
Byaduk Caves, Western Victoria
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…
Mindat Photo of the Day!
I got a Mindat Photo of the Day (again) with this ilmenite specimen from Lethbridge Quarry, Victoria.
Aragonite from Gisborne, Victoria
Hard to capture jackstraw groups like this, particularly when it is a white or colourless mineral…
Victorian Gold Estates No. 2 Mine, Majorca, Victoria
This is a conspicuous deep lead tailings dump on Rodborough Road, Majorca, but I have not been able (so far) to locate any information about it. There are other nearby…
Google Maps Satellite View…
Google Maps Satellite View (or Google Earth) is a technology that can be very helpful in locating places of interest with a view to potentially visiting (subject, of course, to…
New Victoria Mine, Waterloo
With the kids away, we went for a picnic Xmas lunch today. Came across this mine dump in our travels. The New Victoria Mine, Waterloo, Victoria. Sunk to access the…
Regional Guide to Victorian Geology
Regional Guide to Victorian Geology, John McAndrew and Marcus Marsden. Quite a useful publication, and available on the Internet Wayback Machine (archive.org) here.
Micromount Club Zoom Meeting…
Video from this week’s presentation on the uranium minerals from Lake Boga, Victoria, to the Micromount Club Zoom meeting, is now available…