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Igneous intrusions
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/igneous-intrusions/Molten magma can invade the Earth's upper layers and then solidify as igneous intrusions.
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Plate Tectonics
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/plate-tectonic-processes/Since the 1950s, several discoveries have led to a new understanding of how the Earth works.
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The universe
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/the-universe/The universe can be defined as the whole of existing things from the scale of sub-micron to outer space.
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Looking inside the Earth
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/looking-inside-the-earth/The internal structure of the Earth consists of three main parts, the crust, mantle and core. The division between the crust and the mantle is called the Moho.
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Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/cerussite/This statuesque group of cerussite crystals has been an icon of our mineral collection for over 90 years.
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Smithsonite on Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/smithsonite-on-cerussite/Smithsonite is usually white or cream, yellow or blue, but occasionally a trace of copper can give it a pleasing apple green colour, like this one.
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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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