Photos of NZ Rocks, Minerals and Fossils
North Otago beach agates from All Day Bay. These small agates aound 1cm in size. These agates are covered in a white material creating these wonderful patterns.
North Otago blue beach agates from All Day Bay. These small agates aound 1cm in size and are tumbled polished.
Barite crystals on mudstone (katiki formation) from Shag Point.
Petrified wood from Petrified Gully, Mt Somers. This wood can have some wonderful colours.
Aragonite from Otago Peninsula 15cm in length.
Copper ore from Taieri Mouth.
Amethyst Geode Mt Barossa, Canterbury.
Fossil Fish (Galaxis) Foulden Hill, Middlemarch
Fossil fern, Haast Stream Canterbury.
Actinolite, Haast, West Coast
Radiating tourmaline, Takaka, Golden Bay
Botryoidal Chalcedony with movable cap. Very rare.
Moeraki, North Otago
Hetties Slip tumble polished agates, Mt Sommers , Canterbury
Cut and polished agate, Gawler, Mt Somers
Radiating tourmaline, Takaka, Golden Bay
Fossil Tree Stump - Pentoxylon?
from Waikawa, Southland
Prase All Day Bay North Otago
Andesite with agate Gawler Downs Canterbury
Olivine in basalt - Hyde
Moeraki Moss agate
Douglas Creek Serpentinite
Olivine in basalt Kakanui River at Five Forks
Moeraki Moss agate
Mt Somers Lime quarry 'Matchhead' calcite
Rhodonite from Akatore
Doctors Point Opalite. Glowing green under UV light
Moss Agate - Gawler Downs Canterbury
Kakanui River boulder bank agate
Rhodochrosite - Macetown
Tumbled Polished Orepuki hydrogrossular garnets
Tumble polished rhyolites - Southland
Fossil sharks tooth - Mitchells Rocks
Vivianite in wood - Orepuki
Fossil whale - Milburn limeworks