The Albert Chapman Mineral Collection/Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

摘要

The Albert Chapman mineral collection was regarded as one of the top ten private mineral collections in the world when most of it was purchased from him by the New South Wales Government in 1988. Included in the purchase were some of the finest crystallized specimens ever found in Australia, representing an important part of Australia's mining and mineralogical heritage. In addition, it featured many world-class specimens from other countries. The collection is now housed in a discrete permanent exhibition of its own at the Australian Museum in Sydney and has its own dedicated Web site that anyone in the world can access to view every specimen (Graham et al. 2006).