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Labradorite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/labradorite/Facts about Labradorite
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Zircon
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/zircon/Facts about Zircon
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Quartz
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/quartz/Quartz is the most common mineral, present in a wide range of rocks and gemstones.
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Diamond
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/diamond/Facts about Diamond
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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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Rhodonite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/rhodonite/This outstanding blood-red rhodonite (manganese silicate) crystal group with sharp, parallel bladed crystals is the finest rhodonite crystal group of its kind in the world.
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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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Malachite in Gossan
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/malachite-in-gossan/This is a very large and impressive malachite (copper hydroxy-carbonate) with rounded groups of green, radiating fibrous crystals of velvety texture, that was extracted from an open cavity in the mine.
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Pyrosmalite-(Mn)
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/pyrosmalite/Pyrosmalite-(Mn) is a very rare mineral, even rarer in large crystals.
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Mundrabilla iron meteorite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/mundrabilla-iron-meteorite/Iron meteorites such as Mundrabilla are thought to have been originally part of the metallic core of an asteroid, broken up through collisions in the Asteroid Belt.
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