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Support for the technology used to maintain crocoite.com in its previous form is no longer available. I have therefore had to rebuild the site. I see it as an opportunity to simplify and clean up crocoite.com, hopefully making it a better experience. Some of the rebuild will take a little time so please bear with me while I get it done...


Latest News		Expanded the Lake Cooper Quarry entry to include description, list of minerals, links, and more photos on 29/10/2008...

Minerals for sale		Friends of mine who have been collecting for over 26 years now find that they can no longer look after their collection. They have asked me to help them to find new homes for the specimens. So...I am now selling some of these minerals via an Australian auction site - OZtion. Check out what minerals I have available at any time by clicking here. If there are no minerals showing, it means that they have all been sold, but there will be more added as promptly as possible.

Mineral publications		Australian collectors are fortunate that they have access to an excellent publication in the Australian Journal of Mineralogy, as well as various Mineralogical Society newsletters/journals. The former is targeted at the advanced collector and professional mineralogist, and includes locality-based descriptive mineralogy articles, descriptions of new minerals and the like. The latter are generally designed to keep their members informed on what activities are planned, and sometimes include articles on specific localities, new finds, etc. The Australian & New Zealand Mineral Collector Magazine seeks to find a middle ground, being more focused toward the amateur to serious collector, and being able to provide articles on particular localities, minerals, occurrences, etc., with lots of colour photography.

Minerals from Australia and New Zealand (Census)		The dream of many mineral collectors is to have a complete listing of the minerals occurring in the Australasian region (comprised of the States and Territories of Australia, and the islands of New Zealand), but of course, this is an unrealistic aim. Minerals new to the region, or sometimes even new to science, are continually being found. Even if this were not the case, the physical size of the data would be more than a single publication could hope to provide, and would take an eternity to produce. The advent of the Internet provided an opportunity to compile a census in a way that is relatively easy to update and can be published and made available to millions of people worldwide. This census is available here and contains in the region of 26,000 entries. Input to the census has come from available databases and publications, and a significant effort by the late John Carroll of Melbourne in particular. Contact me if you want to know the original references...

Australian and New Zealand Locations		Specific articles and/or photo galleries of Australian and New Zealand localities...

Minerals from other parts of the world		Although my main focus is on minerals from the Australian and New Zealand regions, I do have an interest in minerals generally. These pages attest to that...

eMinerals		eMinerals began life as part of egroups back in September 1999 as a forum to share information on the minerals of Australia and New Zealand. egroups was subsequently taken over by Yahoo. There had been a number of issues with Yahoo, including access issues and missing or late emails. Consequently, I established eMinerals at Google instead.

My Artwork		Another of my hobbies! I like to draw and paint (watercolour, oils or acrylics). Here are some of my works...

Humour!		My kids don't necessarily think that I have a sense of humour, but what do they know. Check out some of my cartoons...

My Blog		You will see some minerals here, but you will also see lots of other 'stuff' that is part of my life...

House Progress		I have set up a blog to follow the progress of building our new house. The land is 5 acres, part cleared, part bush, in Margate, southern Tasmania. Come along for the ride!

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