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Albert Chapman collection
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/mineralogy/albert-chapman-the-collection/The Albert Chapman mineral collection was purchased by the New South Wales Government in 1988.
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Crocoite on Limonite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/crocoite-limonite/These fragile, needle-like crocoite crystals radiate beautifully from a crumbly gossan matrix.
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Copper
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/copper/This group of arborescent (branching), cylindrical copper crystals is a very fine example of specimens found throughout the oxidised zone of the Broken Hill orebody.
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Australian Museum Gold Collection
https://australian.museum/publications/minerals/gold-collection/The Australian Museum Gold Collection contains over 980 specimens from Australia and overseas that have been donated, exchanged or purchased throughout the life of the collection.
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Introduction
https://australian.museum/publications/minerals/introduction/The Australian Museum’s extraordinary minerals collection, curated over almost 200 years, tells a truly amazing story of our planet’s geological history.
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Minerals
https://australian.museum/visit/whats-on/minerals/Be dazzled by over 1800 spectacular rocks and minerals in our new Minerals Gallery.
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Pyromorphite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/pyromorphite/Pyromorphite (lead chloro-phosphate) was a common mineral of the oxidised zone of the Broken Hill orebody, and exceptional specimens of various crystal forms and colours were found.
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Anglesite on Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/Anglesite-on-cerussite/This reticulated cerussite (lead carbonate) has a sugar-like coating of anglesite (lead sulphate).
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Banded Iron Formation
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/banded-iron-formation/Weighing a whopping 437 kg, this spectacular specimen is part of the Archean Nimingarra Formation of Western Australia and illustrates a dramatic change in Earth’s past atmospheric conditions.
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Oxidised zone copper minerals
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/oxidised-zone-copper-minerals/This stunning polished slice of blue chrysocolla (copper silicate with water), green malachite (copper hydroxy-carbonate) and brown ironoxide- stained jasper (silicon dioxide) is from the DeGrussa Copper-Gold Mine in the Pilbara Block of Western Australia.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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