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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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Water and sedimentary transport
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/water-and-sedimentary-processes/Water plays a vital role in most sedimentary processes. Pure water itself has little effect on rocks. It is the dissolved gases in water, particularly carbon dioxide, that cause the chemical decay of minerals and mineral dissolution.
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Radioactive dating
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/radioactive-dating/Radioactive dating is a method of dating rocks and minerals using radioactive isotopes. This method is useful for igneous and metamorphic rocks, which cannot be dated by the stratigraphic correlation method used for sedimentary rocks.
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Pyroclastic processes and materials
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/pyroclastic-processes-and-materials/Pyroclastic means 'fire broken' and is the term for rocks formed from fragments produced by volcanic explosions.
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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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Glossary of geoscience terms
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/glossary-geoscience-terms/Geoscience (also known as earth sciences and geology) is the study of the Earth and includes all non-living parts of our environment, and everything below the Earth's surface. Here are some common geoscience terms explained.
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Building Materials
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/geological-deposits/building-materials/Perhaps the most important geological deposits are those that we use for building purposes. These come from all geological environments.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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