5274 Schmiederite, Llechwedd Helyg Mine (Willow Bank Mine), Pen-bont Rhydybeddau, Trefeirig, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
Blue needles of schmiederite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blue needles of schmiederite. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Aggregates of bladed crystals with a slight brownish tinge. Ex Tom Cottrell. 2/2005. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Flat-lying needles of metallic millerite. This specimen was collected prior to Park Slip West beginning operations. So technically, it should not be labelled as such. It should simply be Margam Opencast Mine. Ex Jo Price...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1998.
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 2002.
A nice little group of anatase crystals on matrix. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images.
Orange-red realgar and yellow orpiment micro crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 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.
Sharp brownish crystals. Width 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Colourless crystals. Yellowish fluorescence in matrix. With 9mm. Stack of 86 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Harry Critchley.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2002 from Harry Critchley.
Possibly redgillite rather than malachite.
Sky blue platey namuite with tiny bluish-green prismatic bechererite.
Blocky crystals. Possible other species.
Type Locality. White acicular crystals of steverustite.
Pale blue crystals.
Yellow hexagonal crystals of susannite.
Blue acicular caledonite crystals with pale yellow susannite.
ex Richard Bell Collection #2820 9/2005
Tom Cottrell 2/2005
Tom Cottrell 2/2005
Tom Cottrell 2/2005
Tom Cottrell 2/2005
Tom Cottrell 2/2005
Type locality. Brown patches. Ex Richard Tayler Minerals, Cobham, Surrey
Barite crystals from the Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales.