Tolwong mines, Tolwong, St Vincent Co., New South Wales, Australia
A 2mm bournonite 'cogwheel' on an arsenopyrite crystal. Specimen & Photo: John Haupt
© John Haupt
Bendalong, St Vincent Co., New South Wales, Australia
Width of field is 3.2 mm. Collection of Jesse Crawford. The depth of field has been enhanced using CombineZP (9 frames). Equipment: Nikon D-100 digital camera on a homemade microscope.
© 2008 by Jesse Crawford
Dimension 6cmx5cmx4cm Main bournonite crystal group 9mm x 5mm x4mm, fluorite crystals 3mm x3mm x3mm
Tolwong, St Vincent Co., New South Wales, Australia
Twinned arsenopyrite crystals. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and FYSCOPE 4X Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
© R. J. Martin
This specimen shows some scalenohedral stannite crystals with minor chalcopyrite. I collected it in 1968.
Bournonite on drusy quartz. Tiny creamy-white aggregates are probably calcite. Field of view: 5.5mm.
© Judy Rowe
Wurzite, most likely wurtzite-6H, confirmed by Peter Elliot, South Australian Museum. Photo width 2.5mm.
© Steve Sorrell
This view shows two interpenetrant tetragonal prisms, one terminated by a pinacoid. They are the largestof many such crystals at one end of a large ore specimen containing chalcopyrite, stannite and arsenopyrite. Self collected in 1969.
Siderite crystals with an Fe-oxide coating. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and FYSCOPE 4X Semi Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Hexagonal crystals of wurtzite with a gray crystal of asenopyrite at lower right. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and FYSCOPE 4X Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Siderite on an older, fractured, siderite ball 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and FYSCOPE 4X Semi Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Blades of baryte with siderite. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and FYSCOPE 4X Semi Plan Achromatic Objective Lens. Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Sharp arsenopyrite crystal. Stack of 60 images.
© crocoite.com
A nice group of bournonite crystals perched on brassy arsenopyrite and dark sphalerite crystals. Quartz crystals on specimen but not in photo. Height of view 5mm. Stack of 48 images.
A classic "cogwheel" striated crystal of bournonite with arsenopyrite from Tolwong NSW.
Tiny sprays of goethite on an opal lining of a vesicle. Siderite crystals in another vesicle. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 2002 from Ann and Noel Kennon. Stack of 45 images.
Steel-grey Arsenopyrite penetration twin on matrix.