7440 JL2012 Witherite, Settlingstones Mine, Newbrough, Northumberland, England, UK
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1996.
May be bettertonite/penberthycroftite rather than liskeardite. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998.
Chrysocolla after veszelyite. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998. Width of View 4mm.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 2002.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998.
A nice little group of anatase crystals on matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
A single blue anatase crystal on a specimen containing dark green chlorite, orange-brown cassiterite, white albite and colourless quartz. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. The label on the base of the box is in...
Purple cubes with small modified edges with tiny brassy marcasite crystals. Some of the matrix is vein calcite that fluoresces bright red. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 130 images.
Blue-green boracite crystals with orange hilgardite. Ex Lindsay and Patricia Greenbank Collection. Ex Joseph Funke Collection.
Olive green cubes of pharmacosiderite with pale blue platelets of chalcophyllite. Width 3.75mm. Stack of 100 images. Old photograph (2005) is a single shot taken with a Sony DSC P150 hand held on microscope eyepiece....
Ammonite fossil replaced by pyrite.
Ammonite fossil replaced by pyrite.
Ammonite fossil replaced by pyrite.
Ammonite fossil replaced by pyrite.
Ammonite fossil replaced by pyrite.
Ammonite fossil replaced by pyrite.
Small glassy micro fluorite crystals to less than 2mm on an ironstone matrix. From a large hushed working within the Pike Law area. Collected in 1990’s. Fluoresces strongly. Width 18.5mm. Stack of 160 images. Fluorescent...
Interpenetrant pseudo-cubic crystals.
Prismatic colourless apophyllite crystals with pinkish chabazite and colourless bladed thomsonite. The latter fluoresces strong white. Width 18mm. Stack of 180 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Orange-red realgar and yellow orpiment micro crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
White hexagonal calcite crystals that fluoresce pink, green epidote and orange-brown grossular garnet. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Fine green needles of olivenite with white kaolinite. Width 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Clusters of blue bladed azurite with many colourless prismatic twinned harmotome crystals, and colourless bladed barite crystals. The barite fluoresces a creamy white. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Clusters of tiny olive-green crystals. Width 7mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Sharp brownish crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Brown grossular garnet crystals in vughs with trigonal hematite crystals. Acquired by Joan in 1994 from Geoff Randall at the Ballarat Gemboree. With 9mm. Stack of 60 images.
Transparent brown to almost black prismatic cassiterite crystals with dark greenish schorl and yellow calcite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 109 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Pale blue needles on quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Colourless crystals. Yellowish fluorescence in matrix. With 9mm. Stack of 86 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Kaolinite pseudomorph after orthoclase (Pig’s Egg). Purchased at the 2013 Ballarat Gem Show. Video best viewed full screen.
Often, Rogerley specimens are larger with bigger crystals. But this one is cute. And of course, fluorescent. Video best viewed full screen.
Typical “Campylite” from this famous occurrence. Video best viewed full screen.
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Pale yellow fluorite cubes, blue under longwave UV, with siderite on and in. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
Very rare location. The site is only available to Chris Jewson. Very little in the literature about this very small mine.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2000 from Harry Critchley. Width of view 11mm. Stack of 6 images.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1998 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 from Nick Carruth. Photo width 11mm.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Photo width 15mm. Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 2001.
Boiling Well Smelter. Ex Bob Cheetham
Possibly redgillite rather than malachite.
One of my favourite blues – clinoclase. Thin blue prismatic crystals of clinoclase with tapered green prismatic crystals of olivenite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the...
Labelled as Paratacamite, Richard Bell
Ex Ian Graham. Ex John Lewis Collection.,
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