A lovely little specimen of prismatic green atacamite crystals. Ex Graham Lee. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Vintage micromount. Ex Bob Rothenberg collection, previously Walter Bagley and John Francis Calvert (Calvert died in 1897). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue clinoclase crystals on matrix from Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall, England. Ex Bob Rothenberg collection, previously from the John Frederick Calvert collection (died 1897). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on...
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.
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 1998.
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...
Fine green needles of olivenite with white kaolinite. Width 9mm. Stack of 70 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Clusters of tiny olive-green crystals. Width 7mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
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.
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 1994 from Nick Carruth. Photo width 11mm.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Photo width 15mm. Ex Bernie Day specimen.
Boiling Well Smelter. Ex Bob Cheetham
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...
Ex Ian Graham. Ex John Lewis Collection.,
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ebay bayminerals_2012. Bay Minerals. Philip Grounds, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
ebay bayminerals_2012. Bay Minerals. Philip Grounds, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
ebay bayminerals_2012. Bay Minerals. Philip Grounds, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
ebay bayminerals_2012. Bay Minerals. Philip Grounds, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
ebay bayminerals_2012. Bay Minerals. Philip Grounds, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
ebay bayminerals_2012. Bay Minerals. Philip Grounds, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
ebay bayminerals_2012. Bay Minerals. Philip Grounds, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
ebay bayminerals_2012. Bay Minerals. Philip Grounds, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
ebay bayminerals_2012. Bay Minerals. Philip Grounds, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
Rare from locality. Collected 10/2005, Chris Jewson
Blue John, Richard Bell
Plumbogummite epimorphs after Galena pseudomorphs after Pyromorphite, Richard Bell
Type Locality for Chenevixite, Richard Bell
Smithsonite epimorphs after Calcite, Richard Bell
Purple zoning around the edges of the fluorite cubes, cream-coloured barite. Ex John Chivers.
Mass of graphite with a thin core of quartz. Specimen 55x40x22mm.
Group of water-clear calcite crystals 50mm tall. Ex Eugene Carmichael Collection (EWC 4218), ex Lazard Cahn (1067), noted on Cahn label as having been collected by Arthur Russell.
Specimen measuring 5.8×4.1×3.5cm weighs just under 5 ounces. Ex Martin L. Ehrmann (d. 1972) on Fifth Avenue, who according to the Mineralogical Record Archive became America’s premier dealer in high-quality mineral specimens. While the label...
ex Chris Jewson. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Type Locality. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Type Locality. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Type Locality. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Andy Tindle: Ajoite is listed on MinDat from England, Devon, Tavistock District, Tavistock Hamlets, New East Wheal Russell (South Wheal Crebor). No reference is given, but almost certainly the source is the British Micromount Society...
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
From tin ingots salvaged from the SS Cheerful that sank in 1885. ex Chris Jewson. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Chris Jewson, collected 1993. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Harry Critchley.
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Museum Victoria. Simply labelled as Cornwall, England, probably Geevor/Levant, Ian Acworth, Steve Rust, David Ifold pers com.
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Harry Critchley.
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Single large colourless crystal with brown zoned phantom zone. Label suggests it is from about 1900.
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,...
Type Locality. Chalky white mass. Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (2943), ex Richard Tayler Minerals.
