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Oi! What about the best of the Brits?

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Steve Sorrell
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 06:07AM 		au    
Ok Paul. Here's a fairy floss mesolite from the Isle of Skye...

Mesolite, Talisker Bay, Isle of Skye© crocoite.com

I reckon minerals from any part of the British Isles including Eire are ok to post here...

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Steve
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Steve Sorrell
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 06:12AM 		au    
So Ben, is that an antique specimen? Do you have a provenance for it?

Mal - your photos are significantly improved. Good to see! Is there a crack in your specimen?


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Steve
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AM Mizunaka
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 08:08AM 		us    
Calcite included with hematite. Stank Mine, Cumbria. 8.6 x 5.7 cm.

© A&M
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Malcolm Southwood
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 09:59AM 		au    
Steve,

Thanks. Playing with my Christmas present - a new camera and lens - and a lot of trial and error with lighting.
No crack in the specimen, but I can see why you asked; just a somewhat linear feature I guess.

Thought I'd try one more Brit classic for the evening; this one's a bournonite from Herodsfoot, 60mm maximum dimension.

mal
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Philip Mostmans
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 10:01AM 		be    

Fluorite by Philip Mostmans, on Flickr

Fluorite twins from Heights mine in Weardale. Twin about 2cm on the side.
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Colin Fearon
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 10:48AM
One of my favourites; liroconite/clinoclasite
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Jolyon & Katya Ralph
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 10:53AM 		gb    
Come one people, we're Brits, it's CLINOCLASE not CLINOCLASITE.

Thank you!
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Colin Fearon
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 11:05AM
dammed if you do, dammed if you don't
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Ian Jones
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January 07, 2012 12:06PM 		gb    
Very nice Stank piece, have been looking for one like that or ages, but haven't found just the right onesad smiley

Another Cornish classic, a small but busy Wh. Coates cassiterite pseudomorph after orthoclase feldspar, 30mm. These came out c1830.
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Ben Grguric (2)
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 12:22PM
Steve,
That particular siderite thumbnail is not provenanced, but all the references I have for Wheal Maudlin 'horsetooth' siderite specimens suggest they may have occurred in a single vugh or series of vughs around 1820. My specimen was obtained from a Cornish friend, who sourced it from one of his local contacts. That is as much as I know about it.
Cheers,

Ben
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Ben Grguric (2)
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 12:48PM
On the subject of Scottish classics, here is another tiny one, but once again very scarce on the specimen market. Herringbone silver from the Alva mine, Alva, Clackmannanshire (2cm). Sorry my camera won't get any closer. The article on this historically fascinating silver mine by Stephen Moreton (Mineralogical Record, 27, 405-414.) is well worth reading. This particular specimen has a Nick Carruth label.
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Steve Sorrell
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 01:30PM 		au    
Zincolivenite from Dolyhir...

Zincolivenite, Dolyhir Quarry, Powys, Wales© crocoite.com

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Steve
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Ian Jones
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 01:50PM 		gb    
Just noticed that we haven't got any barytes yet, so here is one from one of the Frizington iron mines. - a group of stubby, blue crystals to 50mm, selectively coloured red by hematite, on red-coloured calcite.

The iron mines here produced some of the world's best calcite and baryte, and some pretty good blue fluorite too.
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Woody Thompson
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January 07, 2012 02:25PM
Hollow epimorphs of grayish quartz after baryte crystals, with small chalcopyrites, perched on millky quartz crystals. With old attached label. Herodsfoot Mine, Cornwall. 7 cm wide. Ex Ed David and Ed Swoboda collections. I wish I knew the original collection or dealer represented by the label. Any ideas?



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2012 01:05AM by Woody Thompson.
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Ian Jones
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 05:21PM 		gb    
What's that dog balancing on it's nose, why it's a spray of millerite - good doggy, don't drop it.

Probably time to put the gin awaygrinning smiley
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Ian Jones
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 05:25PM 		gb    
Joan Kureczka Wrote:
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> Okay -- this is definitely one of my favorites.
> Minature fluorite and quartz, with a few little
> galenas, Rotherhope Fell Mine, North Pennines.

lust lust
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Joan Kureczka
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January 07, 2012 06:18PM 		us    
Guess we can round out the Cumbrian stuff with one of the blue fluorites Ian mentioned. Florence Mine.


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Jesse Fisher
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 06:24PM 		us    
Let's get on to what they do best in that small island - fluorite! This one's from the Boltsburn Mine (6 cm across), perhaps one of the best fluorite localities in the country, if not the world. And sorry, Steve, but I really can't bring myself to think of Fosters as beer.


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Jesse Fisher
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 07:25PM 		us    
Woody,

The label on your specimen looks like the ones that were clipped from Heuland's catalogs and glued onto his specimens.
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Woody Thompson
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 07, 2012 08:21PM
Thanks, Jesse. I think Mick Cooper made a similar suggestion about this label being a catalog clipping, but he wasn't sure of the origin. The Heuland auction catalogs are a plausible source. I've seen a photo of another old clipped and glued-on label with apparently identical font, if I can just find it again! Do you have photos or a reference to other examples?
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