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Calcite Crystals
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/calcite-crystals/This attractive and impressive group of large and transparent scalenohedral or ‘dog-tooth’ calcite crystals is from a pool in Cliefden Caves.
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Gold on Quartz
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/gold-on-quartz/Gold always has instant appeal, and this photogenic specimen certainly attracts attention.
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Opal ‘Pineapple’
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/opal-pineapple/This opal ‘pineapple’ has nothing to do with the fruit – the term is only a visual description. The opal is made of silicon dioxide with water.
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Azurite with Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/azurite-with-cerussite/This magnificent plate of dark blue azurite (copper hydroxy-carbonate) crystals from the oxidised zone of the Broken Hill orebody was acquired by Albert Chapman from a Broken Hill mine ‘trucker’ who ‘collected’ it in the 1950s.
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Heulandite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/Heulandite/This is an attractive group of lustrous, orange, diamond-shaped crystals arranged in radiating sheaves.
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Smithsonite on Coronadite Stalactite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/smithsonite/These small, sugary, white smithsonite crystals are encrusting branching stalactites of coronadite (lead, manganese oxide).
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‘Welcome’ Gold Nugget Replica
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/welcome-gold-nugget-replica/The Australian Museum has a set of 43 gold nugget replicas, some acquired up to 135 years ago, representing every Australian state except South Australia, as well as New Zealand.
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Alabandite with Calcite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/alabandite-with-calcite/Alabandite is a rare manganese sulphide mineral found in only a few locations in the world, but Broken Hill has produced some of the best and largest examples.
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Chalcopyrite on quartz
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/chalcopyrite-on-quartz/These large, golden tetrahedral chalcopyrite (copper iron sulphide) crystals on quartz matrix were purchased in the mid-1960s by Albert Chapman from John Cerlienco of South Australia.
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Azurite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/azurite/These large, golden tetrahedral chalcopyrite (copper iron sulphide) crystals on quartz matrix were purchased in the mid-1960s by Albert Chapman from John Cerlienco of South Australia.
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