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Mineral properties
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/properties/Minerals can be identified using a number of properties. These include physical and chemical properties such as hardness, density, cleavage and colour, crystallography, electrical conductivity, magnetism, radioactivity and fluorescence.
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Emerald
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/emerald/Facts about Emerald.
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Opal
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/opal/Facts about Opal.
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Heulandite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/Heulandite/This is an attractive group of lustrous, orange, diamond-shaped crystals arranged in radiating sheaves.
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Smithsonite on Coronadite Stalactite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/smithsonite/These small, sugary, white smithsonite crystals are encrusting branching stalactites of coronadite (lead, manganese oxide).
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‘Welcome’ Gold Nugget Replica
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/welcome-gold-nugget-replica/The Australian Museum has a set of 43 gold nugget replicas, some acquired up to 135 years ago, representing every Australian state except South Australia, as well as New Zealand.
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Alabandite with Calcite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/alabandite-with-calcite/Alabandite is a rare manganese sulphide mineral found in only a few locations in the world, but Broken Hill has produced some of the best and largest examples.
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Chalcopyrite on quartz
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/chalcopyrite-on-quartz/These large, golden tetrahedral chalcopyrite (copper iron sulphide) crystals on quartz matrix were purchased in the mid-1960s by Albert Chapman from John Cerlienco of South Australia.
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Azurite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/azurite/These large, golden tetrahedral chalcopyrite (copper iron sulphide) crystals on quartz matrix were purchased in the mid-1960s by Albert Chapman from John Cerlienco of South Australia.
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Beryl (aquamarine)
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/beryl-aquamarine/Sapphire (aluminium oxide) can be many colours, but the beautiful blue we see most often is from traces of iron and titanium.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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