Mount Malvern Mine, Chandlers Hill, South Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Field with 5x4mm - November of 2006
© Photo & Collection of Martins da Pedra
Pseudo-octahedral blue cumengeite and minor blocky blue diaboleite (both XRD-analysed). Collected in 1998. Width of photo ca. 5 mm.
© Fritz Schreiber
Pseudo-octahedral blue cumengeite and minor blocky blue diaboleite (both XRD-analysed). Collected in 1998. Width of photo ca. 4 mm.
Pseudo-octahedral blue cumengeite and minor blocky blue diaboleite (both XRD-analysed). Collected in 1998. Width of photo ca. 7 mm.
Confirmed By South Australian Museum, a small scattering of Cumengeite from the Mount Malvern Mine. Ex. Dean Ware.
© Mark. Willoughby 2010
Polished section of Mount Malvern mine ore consisting of supergene covellite (cv) and anglesite (ang) with galena (gn). Field of view is 600 microns.
© Ben Grguric
Polished section of Mount Malvern ore consisting of supergene covellite (cv) and anglesite (ang) associated with galena (gn) and pyrite (py). Field of view is 1.2mm.
Cerussite, some twinned. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
© R. J. Martin
Pyrite on covellite 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Grey cerussite (due to relict galena inclusions) with malachite. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Azurite with a few small clear quartzes at centre and white kaolinite coating on the azurites at 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.
Malachite in massive cerussite. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Pyrite with some minor dark blue covellite. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Azurite with malachite and yellow siderite epimorphs of double terminated, scalenohedral crystals . 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Fractured galena in baryte matrix. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Greenish yellow cubes of bariopharmacosiderite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 2.33mm. Stack of 50 images.
© crocoite.com
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2003 from John Haupt. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
Malachite needles 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Grey cerussite. 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.
Band of of pyrites. 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.
Yellow mimetite (see daughter photo for detail). 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 epimorphs (see broken cast at upper right corner) of double terminated, scalenohedral crystals (possibly calcite). 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod ...
Azurite and malachite 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.
Malachite sprays with small azurites. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Covellite in baryte 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Red carminite with green beudantite-segnitite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 80 images.
© Steve Sorrell
Fibrous malachite 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Red carminite with green beudantite-segnitite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 45 images.
Black chalcophanite at centre with azurite and malachite. 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.
Baryte crystals. 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Malachite (possibly pseudomorphous after azurite) 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Yellow mimetite detail. 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.
Pale blue crust. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 17.25mm. Stack of 70 images.
A tiny green chlorargyrite crystal embedded in matrix. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images.
Malachite with cerussite 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Detail of black chalcophanite at centre. 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.
Malachite ball 5MP Chinese unbranded CMOS camera with bellows and "2np" Reichert objective (approx equal to a plan 5-5.5x). Processed with Zerene stacker DMap and post stacking cleanup with Faststone. Collection and photograph of Rod Martin.
Field trip to Mt Malvern mine, 2010 Joint Seminar of the Mineralogical Societies of Australasia, Adelaide, South Australia
Mount Malvern mine: Dr. Allan Pring, honored by the mineral allanpringite (http://www.mindat.org/min-27431.html) digs into the dumps (1998).
© Uwe Kolitsch
Mount Malvern mine: view from the dumps (ca. 1997).
Mount Malvern mine: Peter Elliott is collecting micromounts on the dumps (1998).
Mount Malvern mine: part of the dumps (1998).
Mount Malvern mine: View down sloping, washed-out dumps (1998).
Mount Malvern mine: digging into the dumps (1998).
Mount Malvern mine: view on the dumps from the other side of the valley (1998).