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Peridot
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/peridot/Facts about Peridot.
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Topaz
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/topaz/Facts about Topaz.
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Zircon
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/zircon/Facts about Zircon
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Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/cerussite/This statuesque group of cerussite crystals has been an icon of our mineral collection for over 90 years.
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Azurite on Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/azurite-on-cerussite/This beautiful specimen contains the largest Broken Hill azurite crystal in our collection.
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Molybdenite on quartz
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/molybdenite-on-quartz/With its large, curved, silvery, flexible and metallic crystal flakes scattered over quartz crystals in an aesthetic arrangement, this is the best molybdenite (molybdenum sulphide) specimen of its type in the world.
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Rhodonite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/rhodonite/This outstanding blood-red rhodonite (manganese silicate) crystal group with sharp, parallel bladed crystals is the finest rhodonite crystal group of its kind in the world.
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Smithsonite on Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/smithsonite-on-cerussite/Smithsonite is usually white or cream, yellow or blue, but occasionally a trace of copper can give it a pleasing apple green colour, like this one.
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Azurite with Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/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-highlights/Heulandite/This is an attractive group of lustrous, orange, diamond-shaped crystals arranged in radiating sheaves.
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Bilas: Body Adornment from Papua New Guinea
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