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Jasperised wood
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/jasperised-wood/This polished, richly hued slice of jasperised wood is from the Petrified Forest National Park, which covers parts of Navajo and Apache Counties in north- eastern Arizona, USA.
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Manganite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/manganite/Germany has produced some of the largest and best manganite (manganese hydroxide) crystals in the world, as shown by this superb example.
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Celestine
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/celestine/This large hollow geode lined with sky blue celestine crystals was purchased from a Victorian mineral dealer.
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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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Diorite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/diorite/This small piece of diorite, an igneous rock, may appear unpretentious, but it has an incredible history.
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Cuprite on Calcite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/Cuprite-on-calcite/Emke Mine in Namibia has produced some very large cuprite (copper oxide) crystals, with some being of gem quality and able to be faceted into rare dark-red gemstones.
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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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‘Dinosaur’ Gold Nugget
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/dinosaur-gold-nugget/This gold nugget, worn smooth by the action of water, has an uncanny resemblance to a prehistoric reptile, and has been called the ‘Dinosaur’ gold nugget.
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Metamorphism
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/metamorphism/The word metamorphism comes from Greek and means 'change of form'. Metamorphic rocks are pre-existing rocks whose mineral composition and/or texture has been changed by processes within the Earth.
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The Sydney Basin
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/the-sydney-basin/The Sydney Basin is a major structural basin containing a thick Permian-Triassic (290 Ma - 200 Ma (million years old)) sedimentary sequence that is part of the much larger Sydney-Gunnedah-Bowen Basin.
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