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Quartz (Amethyst)
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/quartz-amethyst/These sharp, lustrous and transparent purple amethyst crystals are a variety of quartz.
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Elbaite Tourmaline (Rubellite)
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/elbaite-tourmaline/This particularly large and colourful columnar crystal of rubellite tourmaline has an attached milky quartz crystal.
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Adelie land meteorite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/adelie-land-meteorite/This small meteorite (originally weighing one kilogram) was the first one discovered in Antarctica and was found by Francis Bickerton during Sir Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14.
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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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Minerals and the beauty of the rainbow
https://australian.museum/inside-out/pride-light/minerals/Explore the beauty of the rainbow in the natural world with iridescent minerals and learn the meaning behind the rainbow flag, a powerful symbol for the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Oliver Chalmers – Curator of Minerals
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/oliver-chalmers-curator-of-minerals/The promising lad who became a highly regarded geologist.
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Building Materials
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/geological-deposits/building-materials/Perhaps the most important geological deposits are those that we use for building purposes. These come from all geological environments.
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A Rock from Cape Horn
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/mineralogy/mineralogy-collection-a-rock-from-cape-horn/On 22 May 1826, two ships sailed from Plymouth, England on a major expedition to chart the southern coast of South America.
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Mineralogy
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/mineralogy/Learn more about our mineralogy and petrology collections and study of minerals and rocks.
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What are minerals?
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/what-are-minerals/Minerals are the building blocks of our planet. Discover what they reveal about the history of Earth and our solar system and what makes them so essential to our existence.
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