ncat JP1946 Harmotome, Calcite, Whitesmith Mine, Strontian, Highland, Scotland, UK
Colourless harmotome crystals with brown calcite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm.
Colourless harmotome crystals with brown calcite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3mm.
Twinned harmotome, including “drill bit” habit. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Double-terminated alstonite crystal group on a sulphide matrix (sphalerite, pyrite and galena). Also present but not in photo are twinned harmotome crystals. The sphalerite is providing the orange colour in the alstonite crystals. Width of...
It’s interesting to see a specimen with a paragenesis. In this instance, a double-terminated is surrounded by drill-bit twinned harmotome, but also has a harmotome perched on the alstonite crystal. The alstonite also has a...
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Harry Critchley in 1996.
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.
Tom Cottrell 2/2005
Tom Cottrell 2/2005
Received in mail-trades in the 1980s with Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand).