7374 JL2011 Harmotome, Barite, Settlingstones Mine, Newbrough, Northumberland, England, UK
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1996.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1996.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1995 from Frank Robinson.
Colourless cubes of fluorite with thin purple edges, colourless fluorite with hematite inclusions/staining, purple cubes, yellow tabular wulfenite, minor white barite. Specimen is 50x36x30mm. Second image is under shortwave ultraviolet light.
Dark tabular barite crystals on a fragment of hematite matrix. Ex George Reimherr Collection. 15mm wide.
Small cavities containing white bladed barite, colourless pseudo-hexagonal chabazite, colourless prismatic apatite and brown siderite. Width of view 3.75mm. Stack of 80 images.
Zoned white to brown barite with tiny colourless mimetite crystals and white “smithsonite”. The latter is not listed in Mindat. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 200 images. Ex Ted Johnson.
Orange-red hexagonal crystals in tabular and prismatic habits on cream-coloured barite plates. Width 11mm. Stack of 150 images. Close-up photo of a 30x27x20mm specimen.
Aesthetic yellow crystal cluster. Acquired at the 2013 Bendigo Show. Video best viewed full screen.
Orange tabular wulfenite crystals with yellow mimetite on pale pinkish crystalline barite. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Fluorite is white, only picked up under longwave UV. Tiny scalenohedral calcite crystals. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Some orange fluorescence – cerussite maybe. Video best viewed full screen.