4949 Sphalerite, Fluorite, Barite, Hawleyite, Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire, England, UK
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
Type Locality. Ex Fred Pough, ex Steve Pullman (Whole Earth Minerals, Reno, Nevada).
Pinkish raspite (single crystal), cream chamosite balls, prismatic arsenopyrite, including some partial trillings, colourless fluorite, well-formed chalcopyrite crystals and colourless quartz crystals. Ex Wolfgang Henkel.
Black augite crystals in embedded in a matrix of weathered olivine. Label says Lasbach, with the original handwritten label being misinterpreted. Identical material to Limberg Quarries ones listed in Mindat so undoubtedly the locality. ex...
Adamite crystals, many having purple manganoan cores with colourless outer areas.
Partial crystal of elbaite in matrix. Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection.
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. ex Hatfield Goudey
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Museum Victoria.
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Vince Peisley
ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection. Labelled as allanite-(Ce). Many allanites from here are actually dissakisite with allanite rims. General rule is that paler crystals are dissakisite. Specimen not analysed however.
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Type Locality for Zykaite. ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Type Locality. ex Joan Lamond Collection
Type Locality. ex Joan Lamond Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Chalcotrichite. ex Joan Lamond Collection
Wellsite was discredited in 1997 – it is either barian Phillipsite-Ca or calcian Harmotome. ex Joan Lamond Collection
Comes from a single find made about 20 years ago (~1995). This is a lovely group of 5mm natrolite prisms perched on slender black aegirine crystals. Very aesthetic from any side, and an excellent example...
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Pale pink and red crystals. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Pale pink striated crystals. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Baveno Twins. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
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ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
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ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. ex C. Peat 1997
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Cynthia Peat
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Cynthia Peat
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Margaret Day. It could be ancylite-(Ce) or calcioancylite-(Ce).
Type Locality for Peatite and Ramikite. A number of sharp peatite-ramikite crystals are present on this specimen. The matrix id composed of some blocky pseudomorphs of calcite after ?, synchysite after rémondite along with lots...
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Fluoresces green. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Unknown Pink. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
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ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Collected early 1970s. ex C Peat 1995
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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 Joan Lamond Collection, ex Cynthia Peat
ex Joan Lamond Collection. Specimen acquired from Dutch collector, hence Oost Troodos.
A few white calcite crystals on drusy quartz.
Superb lilac hexagonal crystals of coquimbite to 9mm long. Micro yellow copiapite and colourless alunogen. From a find in 2009.
Chlorite and anatase inclusions in thin needle-like quartz. Minor white albite on quartz. Tiny brown rutile(?) on one quartz crystal.
Hemispheres of quartz (described as chalcedony, but not) with grey stilbite.
A stunning colourless fluorapophyllite with a pink stilbite crystal all sitting on drusy quartz. The apophyllite measures 45mm across. Not my photo.
Purple zoning around the edges of the fluorite cubes, cream-coloured barite. Ex John Chivers.
Dark pink/purple crystals protected in a cavity. Ex Darren Lucas.
ex Patrick C. Murphy, ex Darren Lucas
White quartz overgrown smoky quartz.
Weird ribcage growth of quartz.
White quartz overgrown smoky quartz.
Terminated schorl crystals in granite matrix
7.7g piece of the Canyon Diablo meteorite collected from the north side of Meteor Crater, in 1928.
Material containing variable amounts of the unnamed” copper-calcium-aluminium silicate sent to Mrs Judy Montoya
Spessartine Garnet included in Smoky Quartz from Searchlight Nevada. Quartz crystal with included red gem garnets. You can see about 4 garnets in here. The largest one fills up one subcrystal. Sharp and perfect, except...
Morion Smoky Quartz pitch black from Dinkey Lakes pegmatites, Dinkey Creek, Fresno Co., California. Jet black, from the Fred DeVito collection, owned by Justin since 2004. A really outstanding crystal from a now closed location.
Corundum Var. Ruby with Mica Var. Fucshite from Cascade Canyon, San Antonio Canyon, San Gabriel Mts, San Bernardino Co., California. This location for red corundum crystals was to be closed off in 2016, illegal to...
Cobaltoan lithiophorite cementing conglomerate from Seto City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, formerly from the Arthur. L. Flagg (1883-1961) collection, catalogued as asbolite” with inventory number 3990 (black painted number & glued fabric strip). The two other...
Multiple Japan-Law twins. Ex Marylin Dodge Collection. See http://www.irocks.com/minerals/specimen/3973
A blocky rusty brown, crude crystal. Old stock.
An alkali feldspar intermediate between low sanidine and high albite. A strange, elongated crystal of anorthoclase without matrix, showing modest twinning, here from a well-documented and sought-after locality for this feldspar-group mineral. From an old...
Bluish bladed crystal group. Ex Roger Colling Collection #260.
Beta style quartz crystals with a smoky tint, with hematite as inclusions, and larger hematite blades alongside. Ex Roger Colling Collection #58.
Cluster of pale blue barite crystals. Ex Roger Colling Collection #288.
Thin lacy native copper. Ex Roger Colling Collection #217.
Cluster of gemmy colourless quartz crystals. Ex Roger Colling Collection #375. Probably collected down hill east of the Victoria Tower mine in the 1980s (Murray Thompson personal communication).
A spherical cluster of multi-coloured (pink core, pale green outer with darker green tips) terminated elbaite crystals. Ex Carolyn Seitz collection. 30x30x25mm.
Coarse hackly gold on contact edge of quartz reef
Lustrous octahedral crystals.
Labelled simply as Moldowa, Bannat. Very similar to Mindat photo 459649. Ex Dr A. Kranz in Bonn, number 35470. Ex Michigan Mining School Collection, number 35470 crossed out, new number 6033. Ex Michigan College of...
Group of hematite crystals. 33x28x21mm. Ex Eugene Carmichael (3002). Ex George English (North Carolina label). Number on label matches specimen.
An aquamarine-tipped heliodor from a small recent find of unusual bi-coloured beryls and this piece comes from the lot that had some of the best colouration seen. The piece weighs approximately 0.9 grams and measures...
A single rubellite crystal, typical pink, 25x5x5mm.
So-called velvet malachite”. Purchased at Keystone
Lustrous dark blue crystals coat one face. Some contacts(?).
Superb twinned chalcopyrite crystals, similar to one found at Mt Lyell in Tasmania. Mindat suggests chalcopyrite is doubtful from this locality.
Superb native copper in the shape of a sea dragon!
Blue hemimorphite spheres. Ex Pascal Quenaon Collection.
A few tiny wulfenite crystals amongst white bladed calcite crystals on blue hemimorphite. Won at the Tucson dinner silent auction, 2015.
Blocky transparent apophyllite crystals with pale green hedenbergite.
Colourless calcite crystals. Won at Tucson Show Dinner Auction (first Tucson trip). Priced at $220.
Platy zoned thin hexagonal rhodocrosite crystals with a dusting of pyrite, plus pyrite on the matrix. Ex Milton Lavers Collection #962. Includes label from when the specimen was on display at the Munich Mineral Show...
Cavities containing lustrous pink crystal groups.
Perfectly-formed wurtzite crystals, doubly-terminated quartz, plus other sulphides? Purchased at Keystone, priced at $500.
Lovely cluster of colourless quartz crystals. Previous label – Dave Bunk Minerals with a $40 price tag – 5/05 Costa Mesa. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $50.
Lovely cluster of colourless quartz crystals in parallel growth. Labelled as Jebel Imalo, Imilchil, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
Orange-yellow platey crystals. From the NBHC Mine.
The Rocket. Group of beta-quartz like crystals that looks like a rocket ready for lift-off.
Cluster of doubly-terminated quartz crystals with unknown black minerals. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $12.
Single greenish yellow crystal 12.5mm long on matrix. Ex University of Arizona Mineral Museum #19204. Donated by Helga K Herfirth (sp?), 25/1/2000, number 395.
Dark grey massive portlandite with muscovite mica. Found in the northeast corner of the quarry. Ex Museum Victoria, ex Robin Sharp
Dark copper coloured micro scales of the rare carbonate mineral, pyroaurite on serpentine. Specimen 70x35x25mm.
Mass of graphite with a thin core of quartz. Specimen 55x40x22mm.
Matrix of quartz with individual colourless crystals to 13mm (largest doubly terminated). Specimen 53x40x20mm.
Attractive cluster of chlorite-included quartz. 73x47x47mm.
Minute, pale green masses and aggregates of this rare, one-locality species very sparsely scattered on matrix. From the original find by Forrest Cureton. A label signed by Forrest included. The last of the stock! Locality...
Superb cluster of crystals on matrix. Ex Eugene Carmichael Collection (EWC 497), ex Lawrence Conklin (priced at US$900).
Three sharp red cinnabar crystals on white dolomite. Ex Eugene Carmichael Collection (EWC 437), ex The Aesthetics Underground, Alberta, Canada.
Translucent blue-green fluorite crystals on matrix. The fluorite crystals are cubic form with dodecahedral (110) edge faces that are opaque white.
From Greg Dainty: This piece was collected, and labeled, by Norman Robinson, from an old exploration trench. Its hard to figure out exactly whats going on here, there is what appears to be chrysocolla replacing...
White porcelaneous kaolinite on green prismatic pyromorphite. Closeup photo: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 46 images. From Greg Dainty: Specimen collected by Norman Robinson in the early 1980s, and as far as I know...
Nice zoned yellow-white ettringite, superb colourless calcite, reddish andradite and minor hematite.
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.
A water-clear fishtail gypsum crystal, 100mm long.
Single thick lustrous blue crystal on minor amount of matrix. This lot of azurites was collected from a water-course that intersected the orebody. Many great specimens were found andtaken to the US to sell. When...
From a rare species collection. Two pieces
From a rare species collection
From a rare species collection
Orange-stained platey crystals of valentinte with other species on matrix. Ex New York State Museum, number 3463-1. Ex Kunz Collection, number 216.1 (written in red on specimen). Back of one label says prepared by Dr...
Lustrous and transluscent green botryoidal prehnite with calcite crystals on back side. Ex A Schumacher, labelled as New Street Quarry, number 86. Ex J Obert (on Schumacher label). Ex Alfred Stevenson Collection, labelled as Prospect...
Drusy micro anglesite crystals on matrix. Ex US National Museum (Smithsonian) Collection, Department of Minerals, catalogue number 14121. Ex Hawes Collection acquired in 1884.
Light brown translucent crystals on matrix. Ex American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Collection, numbered 49272. Jamie Newman of the museum has advised that the number should read 94272.
Mostly white apophyllite with a small number of prismatic natrolite crystals, scalenohedral calcite crystals, and drusy phillipsite. 60x50x40mm. Ex Museum of Victoria.
Transparent tabular apophyllite with minor colourless stilbite and orange (stained or coated) acicular thaumasite on green prehnite. 60x60x18mm. Ex Eugene Carmichael Collection (563) – label also mentions New York State Museum. Ex Hugh Ford (two...
Highly etched morganite crystal with superb lustre creating many reflective facets dispersing the light in all directions. Slightly pinkish under artificial light but colourless, maybe even tinged with blue under daylight.
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...
Single crystal 42x25x15mm. Ex Carl R. Bently collection (#1069), ex Oren Root (1803-1885) collection (#1647).
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Curled crystals. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
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ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Collected 26/8/1990. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. This specimen has catalogue numbers from two previous collectors but unfortunately, their identity is unknown. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image...
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ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
ex Chris Jewson. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Type Locality. ex Steve Taylor. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
Tiny purple patch. Type Locality. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 45 images. Deaccessioned. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ex Hatfield Goudey Collection. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
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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
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