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SIDERITE
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Boswedden Mine, St. Just, Cornwall.
A small but very fine specimen of crystalline siderite on quartz matrix. The siderite is in the form of sharp brown to red prismatic crystals to 2.5 mm.
Size 3.2 x 3 x 2 cm
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PHARMACOSIDERITE
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1 Available!
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Wheal Damsel, Gwennap, Cornwall.
A quartz, chlorite matrix with several cavities lined with apple green crystals of pharmacosiderite.
Nice locality specimen.
Size 6 x 4.5 x 4 cm
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CASSITERITE var. Toads eye tin
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Tolvaddon Mine, Marazion, Cornwall.
A specimen of quartz and chlorite hosting several areas of toads eye tin in pale to dark brown acicular masses.
Nice example for the locality.
Size 7 x 4 x 3 cm
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CLINOPTILOLITE-Ca
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1 Available!
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Wheal Hazard, Botallack, Cornwall.
A good coverage of well defined clinoptiloite-Ca crystals to 2mm on both sides of the slate matrix.
The specimen was collected several years ago near the adit mouth entrance of Wheal Hazard, the collecting area has now collapsed.
Ex. Blanchford Collection.
Size 5.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 cm
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CHALCOPYRITE ON CALCITE
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1 Available!
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Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall.
A large calcite crystal with a pink hue dusted with micro crystalline chalcopyrite with a single 8mm crystal sitting on the termination.
A lovely specimen, without damage.
Size 5 x 2.8 x 1.5 cm
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TILE ORE
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Tolcarne Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall.
A matrix of pale granite with chrysocolla cut through witha thin vein of chalcocite with cuprite on ether side known as tile ore.
Collected from the tips in 1990
Size 8 x 7 x 5 cm
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ORTHOCLASE FELDSPAR
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Chywoon Quarry, Longdowns, Penryn, Cornwall.
Part of a very large feldspar crystal collected by David Moulding in July 2000.
Sits well.
Size 8 x 6 x 4 cm
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CUPRITE ON SERPENTINE
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Goonhilly Downs, Lizard, Cornwall.
A serpentine and talc matrix supporting a thin sheet of crystalline cuprite and minor chrysocolla.
The green Barstow label says Goonhilly Downs and is most likely from the now flooded Countybridge Quarry.
Size 5 x 4.5 x 4 cm
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CASSITERITE CONCENTRATE
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1 Available!
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Roskear 'D' Lode 445 Fathom Level, South Crofty Mine, Pool, Cornwall.
A sample of tin concentrate fron Draw point No. 4 weighing 60 grams.
From the Greg Towning collection.
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SCORODITE WITH PHARMACOSIDERITE
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1 Available!
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Bawdens Shaft, Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall.
Rich blue crystalline scorodite with yellow microcrystalline pharmacosiderite.
Nice contrast of colours.
Size 5 x 6 x 3 cm
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ERYTHRITE
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Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall.
This specimen which was collected on the lower shaft dump in the late 1980's displays pink micro crystalline erythrite on chlorite with dolomite and minor chalcopyrite.
A rare locality specimen.
Size 6.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm
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CASSITERITE
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1 Available!
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Penhalls Mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall.
A dark slate, quartz breccia very rich light brown cryptocrystalline cassiterite.
Collected from an exposure near Wheal Vottle Adit.
Size 8 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm
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APATITE
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Gunheath Clay Quarry, St. Austel, Cornwall.
A tourmaline, quartz and feldspar matrix with mauve apatite crystals with white terminations to 3.5mm.
Ex MJ Spencer collection.
Size 6 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm
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GOETHITE ON QUARTZ
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Wheal Owles, St. Just, Cornwall.
A large deep cavity in jasper matrix lined with quartz crystals and tiny spherules of fibrous goethite 'better seen with a lens'.
Size 5 x 5 x 4 cm
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CASSITERITE 'alluvial'
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Buryas Bridge, Paul, Near Penzance, Cornwall.
Part of a water worn quartz pebble rich in black coarsely crystalline cassiterite from the alluvial plain south of Buryas Bridge.
Size 6 x 5 x 3 cm
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CYRILOVITE, CHALCOSIDERITE & DUFRENITE
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Gunheath Clay Quarry, Stenaleese, Treverbyn, Cornwall.
An excellent specimen of tiny spherules of yellow cyrilovite and green chalcosiderite with dufrenite and minor torbernite on a pink granite matrix.
From the late Maurice Grigg collection. The specimen was collected by him on the 14 April 1986.
Size 12 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm
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DOLOMITE
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Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, Cornwall.
A large cabinet size specimen displaying a good coverage of pearl white dolomite crystals to 4mm on a iron rich matrix.
Size 13 x 11 x 6 cm
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BINDHEIMITE
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Bodannon Mine, Trewetha, Cornwall.
A fine specimen of yellow, red brown bindheimite with minor quartz from the Bodannon Mine.
There is hardly any visual evidence of this mine today bar a few small grassed over dumps.
Ex Peter Golley and Simon Camm collection.
Size 12 x 5 x 2 cm
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QUARTZ EPIMORPHS OF CALCITE
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Crinnis Mine, Carlyon Bay, St. Austell, Cornwall.
A very pretty specimen displaying a large group of druzy quartz casts of dog tooth calcite.
Collected in the 1990's from the lode outcrop of the Crinnis Mine.
Size 9.5 x 7 x 2 cm
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ATACAMITE
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Levant Mine, Trewellard, Cornwall.
A fine specimen of atacamite from the Levant Mine displaying groups of bright tiny green prismatic crystals on hematite, chalcocite matrix.
Ex. Jim Knight collection. No. 1976
Size 7.5 x 5 x 2.5 cm
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CHALCOPYRITE
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Mount Wellington Mine, Twelveheads, Cornwall.
Large crystals of chalcopyrite covered with chlorite and in turn druzy quartz and tiny well formed crystals of pyrite.
Ex. Hoston collection.
Size 9 x 6 x 4.5 cm
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MOLYBDENITE
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Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Cornwall.
A very rich specimen of molybdenite for this locality displaying bright foilated mases to 2cm across with muscovite, quartz and minor sulphides.
Size 6 x 5 x 3 cm
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PYROMORPHITE
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Penberthy Croft Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall.
A fine hand specimen of yellow crystalline pyromorphite in an iron gossan collected some time ago from Daws Shaft. The crystals are bright and mostly undamaged.
Size 9 x 5 x 3
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PYROMORPHITE
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Trevinnick Mine, St. Endellion, Cornwall.
A pale slate matrix covered on one side with green crystalline pyromorphite. This specimen was collected underground in early 1980's.
Size 9 x 5.5 x 2 cm
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STILBITE, CHABAZITE & CALCITE
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Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall.
Crystals of calcite covered in sparkling chabazite on which are hollow straws of stilbite epimorphs of natrolite.
Nice pretty three dimensional specimen collected from the quarry by AF Mortimer in 1995. Displays well.
Size 7 x 6 x 4 cm
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COPPER & CUPRITE
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12 Level, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall.
A specimen of well crystalline native copper with cuprite and minor quartz.
Collected from the 12 Level just before the workings were flooded when the mine closed in 1991.
Size 6 x 4.5 x 1 cm
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SPHALERITE
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Trevaunance Mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall.
Purple iridescent crystals of sphalerite to 3.5mm with minor fluorite on a pale grey slate matrix.
Ex. Peter Golley Collection.
Size 6.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm
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PARGASITE & AXINITE
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Botallack Head, Botallack, St. Just, Cornwall.
Dark olive green pargasite with axinite and some minor embedded crystals of white apatite from Botallack Head.
Size 6 x 5 x 4 cm
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LIMONITE
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New East Wheal Russell Mine, Tavistock, Devon.
A specimen of shiny black to brown limonite collected some years ago from the Adit Level by Mick Spencer.
Size 7 x 5 x 3 cm
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CHILDRENITE
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George & Charlotte, Tavistock, Devon.
Quartz, slate matrix with a good covering on one side of honey brown crystals of childrenite to 1.7mm across.
Nice sharp crystals, no damage.
Size 6 x 5 x 3 cm
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MILLERITE
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Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall.
A small but rare locality specimen of millerite from Greystone Quarry, displaying 8mm long spray of millerite crystals with quartz and minor calcite.
Size 4 x 2.5 x 2 cm
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QUARTZ WITH MINOR BORNITE
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Kings Lode, Hingston Down Quarry, Callington, Cornwall.
A group of large milky quartz crystals with several smaller crystals attached to the sides, the largest measuring 9 cm long. On one face of the quartz crystals there is a sprinkling of microcrystalline bornite.
Size 10 x 8 x 4 cm
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PYRITE ON DOLOMITE
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Wheal Mary Ann, Menheniot, Cornwall.
A pale slate matrix covered with crystalline dolomite and tiny cubic crystals of iridescent pyrite.
Very pretty specimen.
Size 6.5 x 5.5 x 3cm
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Quartz on Chalcedony
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Cross-cut on Hanging Wall Vein, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall.
An unusual specimen displaying ribbons and flow like structures of chalcedony covered in tiny crystals of quartz with inclusions of goethite.
Size 12.5 x 8 x 5 cm
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CASSITERITE
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North Lode, 13 Level, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall.
A specimen with pink adularia and minor chalcocite very rich in cryptocrystalline cassiterite.
Size 9 x 5 x 3 xm
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CASSITERITE
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Polberro Mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall.
This specimen which is from the collection of the late L J Bullen author and mining historian shows a matrix of mica and chlorite richly shot through with black cryptocrystalline cassiterite.
This specimen was collected by L J Bullen himself from a vein leader at the 770' Level on the 20th December 1939. The mine closed for the last time in 1941.
Size 6 x 3.5 x 2 cm
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CASSITERITE
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No2 Lode West, 400 Fathom Level, South Crofty Mine, Illogan, Cornwall.
A specimen of chlorite and quartz rich in fine grained brown/black cassiterite.
The specimen has beed cut and polished on one edge.
From the collection of greg Towning Catalog no. C. 278
Size 9 x 7 x 3 cm
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FRANCOLITE
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Pendarves Mine, Killivose, Camborne, Cornwall.
An altered granite matrix partly covered with crystalline francolite.
A rare locality specimen.
Size 7 x 5 x 4 cm
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BERTRANDITE
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Cheesewring Quarry, Linkinhorne, Cornwall.
A rare locality specimen displaying a 6mm bertrandite crystal sitting on the edge of an altered granite matrix with tiny modified crystals of purple fluorite and chlorite.
Size 3.5 x 3 x .5 cm
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ERYTHRITE ON SKUTTERUDITE
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1 Available!
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St. Austell Consols, St. Stephen, Cornwall.
Micro crystalline pale pink erythrite with grey skutterudrite on quartz matrix with minor siderite.
Size 7.5 x 5 x 4 cm
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