England

10050 Barite, Crich Quarry, Crich, Derbyshire, England

Large plate of cockscomb barite. Ex Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd. Similar to Mindat photo 260605. A specimen of baryte, bearing an old adhesive paper label reading: ‘Cockscomb Baryties, from Crich…’, in old white card tray, from the Gregory, Bottley, and Lloyd collection. James Reynolds Gregory (1832-1899) was one of the...

4610 Sabugalite, Torbernite, Wheal Edward, Wheal Owles, Botallack, St Just, St Just District, Cornwall, England

Bright yellow crusts of sabugalite with pale-green tabular torbernite (or zeunerite?). Ex Sid Williams (Globo de Plomom). The sabugalite exhibits strong fluorescence under SWUV. Note: labelled as sabugalite, but not confirmed. Rick Turner: I have identical material from Edward that turned out to be sodium-zippeite (“natrozippeite”) – XRD and EDS...