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Museum Victoria mineral specimens from Victoria: Faceted Quartz, The Crystal King

John Broomfield

Museums Victoria

Museums Victoria
Carlton, Australia

"The Crystal King". Faceted Quartz. When it was cut in 1971 this was the world's largest hand-cut stone. The original stone came from the Crystal King Mine near Tallangalook in the Strathbogie Ranges of Victoria and was cut by Alex Amess.

Registration no. M 33271.

Museum Victoria's mineralogy collection is the largest and most species-diverse mineral collection in Australia, containing examples of approximately 60% of known minerals. The emphasis of the collection is on Victorian and Australian minerals which represent around 50% of the collection but it also contains comparative material from around the world and species not found in Australia. The Collection's origins can be traced to the period immediately following the discovery of rich goldfields in the newly formed colony of Victoria with the establishment of the Geological Survey of Victoria in 1853, the National Museum of Victoria in 1854 and the University of Melbourne in 1856. Today the collection is an amalgamation of these three collections plus two other state institutional collections; those of the Industrial and Technological Museum and the Science Museum of Victoria.

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  • Title: Museum Victoria mineral specimens from Victoria: Faceted Quartz, The Crystal King
  • Creator: John Broomfield
  • Location Created: Melbourne Museum
  • Original Language: English
  • Subject Keywords: specimens, minerals
  • Publisher: Museum Victoria
  • Rights: Copyright Museum Victoria / CC BY
  • External Link: See this specimen in Museum Victoria Collections
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