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Oxidised zone copper minerals
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/oxidised-zone-copper-minerals/This stunning polished slice of blue chrysocolla (copper silicate with water), green malachite (copper hydroxy-carbonate) and brown ironoxide- stained jasper (silicon dioxide) is from the DeGrussa Copper-Gold Mine in the Pilbara Block of Western Australia.
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Topaz
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/topaz/This is a ‘Rembrandt of the mineral world’ – one of the world’s finest mineral specimens.
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Nephrite jade carving 'nurse with goats'
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/nephrite-jade-carving/Several mineral species are referred to as ‘jade’. However, ‘true jade’ or ‘precious jade’ is the mineral jadeite, a sodium alumino-silicate, formed under high pressure deep down in the Earth.
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Vanadinite on baryte
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/vanadinite-on-baryte/This specimen was purchased from Albert Chapman who bought it at the 1980 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show in the USA.
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Chalcedony with Chrysocolla
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/chalcedony-with-chrysocolla/These smooth, round masses of chalcedony with dispersed sky-blue copper silicate mineral chrysocolla line a cavity in oxidised copper ore.
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Quartz (Amethyst)
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/quartz-amethyst/These sharp, lustrous and transparent purple amethyst crystals are a variety of quartz.
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Elbaite Tourmaline (Rubellite)
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/elbaite-tourmaline/This particularly large and colourful columnar crystal of rubellite tourmaline has an attached milky quartz crystal.
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Adelie land meteorite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/adelie-land-meteorite/This small meteorite (originally weighing one kilogram) was the first one discovered in Antarctica and was found by Francis Bickerton during Sir Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14.
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Gemstones
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/Gemstones are prized for their beautiful colours and patterns and are used in a range of applications including jewellery, decorative items and as important features of mineral collections.
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Identifying gemstones
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/identifying-gemstones/Cut gemstones possess all the physical properties of the mineral from which they are cut, although the crystal shape is no longer evident.
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