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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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Crocoite on Limonite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/crocoite-limonite/These fragile, needle-like crocoite crystals radiate beautifully from a crumbly gossan matrix.
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Maitland Bar Gold Nugget
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/maitland-bar-gold-nugget/The Maitland Bar gold nugget has a value far beyond its gold content.
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Malachite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/malachite/These lustrous sheaths of emerald-green, radiating, silky malachite (copper hydroxy-carbonate) needles resemble plush velvet and make a very attractive specimen.
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Black Opal
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/black-opal/Australian black opal is the most prized and most valuable type of precious opal.
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Calcite Crystals
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-highlights/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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Bilas: Body Adornment from Papua New Guinea
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