Australian Mineral News CHABAZITE - Ben Lomond Quarry, New England Hwy, New South Wales (photography T. Forsyth)

From time to time items of interest on the Australian Mineral collecting scene will be placed here, as well as a range of topical articles of general interest.

NOTE: Newsletter editors, feel free to reproduce any items that you see here, but please acknowledge both the authorship and the Australian Mineral Collector Web Site.

News Items

• New Web address for the 'Australian Mineral Collector' site
  (http://www.mineral.org.au)

• New Mineralogical Society to be formed in Western Australia

• Second Edition of 'Minerals of Broken Hill' released

• Australian Journal of Mineralogy Volume 5 No. 2 now available

• Vale Eveline Weal

Articles of Interest

• Dinosaur crystal uncovered!
• Fossil Insect Wing In Gypsum
• The Mount Elliot Mine Qld
• Albert Chapman - A Tribute
• The Garibaldi Mine, Tabulam, NSW
• Historic Queensland Extracts
• The Red Dome Mine, North Qld
• Benjamin Dunstan - A Great Qld Mineralogist
• What Makes a Good Mineral Specimen?
• On Mineralogical Manners
• A Short Note on the Naming of Minerals
• The 'Adelaide' crocoite mine, Tasmania

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