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...
Broken Hill Under the Scope is a presentation held on Zoom today, and is now available on YouTube…
Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 4 Issue 9 is now available here. This month, in this 73 page full-colour issue, we have the following articles: A short note on the occurrence of Molybdenite at Mount Stronach, Tasmania. Having visited and collected...
Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 4 Issue 8 is now available here.This month, in this 82 page full-colour issue, we have the following articles: Illustrated Minerals of Australia Volume 1, Part 6 – Babingtonite to bayldonite. The next installment of a...
I got a Mindat Photo of the Day (again) with this ilmenite specimen from Lethbridge Quarry, Victoria.
Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 4 Issue 7 is now available. This month, in this 104 page full-colour issue, there is lots of blue! And we have the following articles: Mineral Snippet – Goosecreekite Turquoise in Massive and Crystal Forms –...
I got a Mindat Photo of the Day with this aragonite specimen from Ben Lomond, New South Wales.
Hard to capture jackstraw groups like this, particularly when it is a white or colourless mineral…
Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 4 Issue 6 is now available. This month, in this 68 page full-colour issue, we have the following articles: Bob Rothenberg Mineral Snippet – Babingtonite Collecting at the Old Yuma Mine, Arizona. Rolf takes us to...
Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 4 Issue 5 is now available. This month, in this 78 page full-colour issue, we have the following articles: Prehnite Occurrence in the Chaillol Massif, France. On the hunt for prehnite and other minerals with Stephane...
Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 4 Issue 4 is now available. This month, in this 59 page full-colour issue, we have the following articles: Mineral Snippet – Hausmannite Illustrated Minerals of Australia Volume 1, Part 2 – Allargentum to Angastonite. The...
An excellent video on crocoite from the Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, produced by Blue Cap Productions…
Monthly Mineral Chronicles volume 4 issue 3 is now available. This month, in this 90 page full-colour issue, we have the following articles: Shows and Stuff… Slowly moving to a “Covid Normal”. One Show at a time. Illustrated Minerals of...
Monthly Mineral Chronicles volume 4 issue 2 is now available. This month, in this 75 page full-colour issue, we have the following articles: The Show Must Go On [Line] – a Virtual Tucson show! Story of an Old Mineral Collection...
Monthly Mineral Chronicles vol 4 issue 1 is now available. For the start of a new year, one full of hope(!), we have a new look. This month, in this 58 page full-colour issue, we have the following articles: Cutting...
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 mines listed by the Victorian Heritage Council, but this one...
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 having the necessary permission). This image of an area in...
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 Waterloo Lead, one of the deep leads in the area....
Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 3 Issue 12 is now available. This month, in this 77 page full-colour issue, we have the following articles:* Collector’s Guide to the Minerals of Lake Boga Part 5* Preserving Provenance – every specimen has a...
Monthly Mineral Chronicles vol 3 issue 11 is now available. This month, in this 71 page full-colour issue, we have the following articles: Show News Franklin Gem & Mineral Show NY-NJ Gem Show Collector’s Guide to the Minerals of Lake...
Regional Guide to Victorian Geology, John McAndrew and Marcus Marsden. Quite a useful publication, and available on the Internet Wayback Machine (archive.org) here.
Monthly Mineral Chronicles vol 3 issue 10 is now available. This month, in this 53 page full-colour issue, we have the following articles: 2020 – the year that keeps on giving! Collector’s Guide to the Minerals of Lake Boga Part...
Video from this week’s presentation on the uranium minerals from Lake Boga, Victoria, to the Micromount Club Zoom meeting, is now available…
I have created another six mineral-themed face masks via Redbubble. These are of a variety of minerals from around the world. So far, there are masks containing crocoite (some with other species) from the Adelaide Mine (2), Red Lead Mine,...
…is now available on Sorrell Publications.
…is now available on Sorrell Publications.
Given the current situation, and that face masks are becoming more the norm, I have decided to create a series of mineral-themed face masks via Redbubble. Six designs are currently available, all of which feature the Tasmanian mineral emblem, crocoite....
Yesterday I was fortunate to be able to visit, and go underground in, a couple of gold mines in the Central Goldfields region of Victoria. One is predominantly slate and the other sandstone. Both have quartz veins rich in gold...
Planning a trip to the Land of the Long White Cloud? Want to know where to go to see geological features, museums, etc.? The Geoscience Society of New Zealand has a website with information about GeoTrips that you can make...
A Sway created sometime back from a presentation that I gave. See also…
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...
The Australian Journal of Mineralogy Index for volumes 1-18 is now available.The index is continually updated, and new versions will be released as more volumes are added.
Due to poor technical performance and under-whelming technical support at bluehost.com, I have moved all of my websites to a new hosting provider. The same domain, crocoite.com applies, but the performance is much much better (as I have already noticed)....
John Cornish outside the Adelaide Mine in 2012. The Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, is world-famous for it’s crocoite specimens. But other species also occur. Here’s a few in my collection.
A second one created tonight. This time, one that hasn’t been published anywhere before. The idea just popped into my head!
I first created geology themed cartoons back in the late 1990s in a series called The Fault Line, published in the Mineralogical Society of Tasmania newsletters. Time to bring them into the 21st Century! Intro and exit created through Viddyoze,...
A nice little spiky calcite specimen from the Portland Harbour Trust Quarry, Cape Sir William Grant, Portland, Glenelg Shire, Victoria. There are two generations of calcite as can be seen on some of the terminations where the outer calcite “coat”...
Shifting into my monochrome phase. A photo of magnetite crystals from the Biggenden Mine, Queensland. Photo width is 5mm. A stack of 158 images processed through Zerene Stacker.
Issue 5 of the Monthly Mineral Chronicles is now available on Sorrell Publications.
Issue 4 of the Monthly Mineral Chronicles is now available on Sorrell Publications.
Zeolites of Tasmania, Steve Sorrell, 2003 I need to update this! 15 years ago, my photography skills were not that great, nor was the technology, and there have been many more finds since. Photo: Natrolite, Stanley, Tasmania
Flinders is a well-known collecting locality in southern Victoria, Australia, most notable for its zeolite minerals, particularly gmelinite.This publication explores the minerals that have been found here. You can access here.
Issue 2 and Issue 3 of the Monthly Mineral Chronicles are now available on Sorrell Publications.
Issue 1 of the Monthly Mineral Chronicles is now available on Sorrell Publications.
Each year, Dehne and Maureen McLaughlin head up to the Northern Territory from Tasmania, to mine for azurite sun specimens. And each year, Dehne writes about the progress and finds on theses ventures. He sends that information through to me...
Main Lead is an area north of Beaufort, Victoria. It was the subject of an early gold rush (Fiery Creek) in the mid 1850s. I was fortunate to be able to visit the area today, with the Ballarat Field Naturalists....
This is the download page for issues of the Australia and New Zealand Micromineral News, a publication for those interested in micromounting or microminerals, and particularly in minerals from this region. In April 2011, a meeting of people interested in...
Henderson’s Quarry is a major excavation in volcanic rock on the eastern side of Mount Ngongotaha, near Rotorua on the North Island of New Zealand. Featured image: Henderson’s Quarry, Ngongotaha The quarry is made up of several rock types including pumice,...
A granite quarry in Victoria’s northwest. Featured image: Schorl tourmaline, Pyramid Hill From Mindat – Two quarries, one abandoned, the other operated by E.B. Mawson and Sons, have been excavated on the low granite knolls south of the main Pyramid...
