Mineral Matters
Steve SorrellHi there. I am a mineral enthusiast, artist, photographer and publisher. I believe in the importance of sharing information about minerals and related subjects. Mineral Matters is one way of doing this.
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175 Years of Gold
Gold was officially discovered in Ballarat in August 1851, sparking a massive influx of prospectors and establishing the area as one of the world’s richest goldfields. The initial discovery of payable gold was near Buninyong, a few kilometr...
🟡 Orpiment vs 🔴 Realgar — what’s the actual difference?
Both are arsenic sulphide minerals, but they’re not twins — more like cousins with very different personalities.
Colour and appearance
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Realgar — bright red‑orange, often translucent, can look almost like sealing wax.
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Orpimen...
Aragonite, Blackhead Quarry, Dunedin, New Zealand
When you’re shooting a subject like this, delicate, radiating, needle‑like crystals embedded in a dark, irregular matrix, you’re dealing with one of the trickiest combinations in mineral macro photography. It’s the kind of specimen that loo...
More Hidden Collection - Nannoniite
I have to thank a few people for putting me on to this. First of all, Steve Stuart, as editor of the Canadian Micro Mineral Association, for reporting on their 62nd Annual CMMA Symposium. Secondly, Bill Lechner for his talk at that symposiu...
Micromount Club Zoho meeting video
This video is part of an ongoing series of monthly presentations on mineral subjects. This month, Martin Stolworthy took us through minerals in his collection beginning with the letter “A”.
Throughout the video, Martin displays high-resolu...
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I am a mineral enthusiast, artist, photographer and publisher in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. I am also interested in many aspects of science and nature, and am currently learning Japanese.
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