Oi! What about the best of the Brits?

Wowsers......some absolute stunners hangin out here, Fluorite's straight from heaven.

I really don't have many British specimens, but what I do have I cherish. Anyway this is probably my best UK specimen apart from my Rogerley, but it's only a fragment of some of the specimens shown here

Really looking forward to returning here to see more of these incredible photographs.



Calcite, Cumbria, England, UK

Only just caught up with this thread since last weekend, and really enjoyed it. Some fine classics!

This one is from deep under the ground in North Yorkshire, a 40mm specimen of hilgardite (orange-pink) on boracite (very pale green) from the Boulby Potash Mine.

mal

Craig,

Beautiful calcite; if you are going to own one your's is the one to have. It's a beautiful miniature.

This specimen in my collection is a Baryte from Frizington, Cumbria, 6cm by 9cm in size.


Best,

Joe

And now...back to American football.

Craig
I feel that your Calcite is absolutely unbelievable, the clarity of the crystals are fantastic mate, well done, thanks for sharing.
Joseph love your Barite too, lovely blue color..

Here is a neat little piece. Hausmannite from Bigrig. - Regards - Brad.

Nice Brits everyone!
Being a Fluorite nut...


Fluorite on Siderite from West Pastures mine

Back to the south-west. A pharmacosiderite from Hemerdon Bal - 5x4mm and very large for the UK.

Well, I suppose I ought to post the larger version of this. Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria.





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Does it for me Joan.

"Wood tin" from an uncommon location, Lee Moor China Clay Pit in Devon

Second time lucky

arriving late to this fantastic thread....
Here's a slightly bigger Baryte to go with Joans' gorgeous Fluorite, also from Hilton Mine, Scoredale - this is a large cabinet specimen about 14 cms x8cms.



cheers, Colleen

Carbonate-rich fluorapatite, variety "francolite". On matrix of quartz-chalcopyrite-chlorite. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. 6 cm.



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"Blister copper" from Cooks Kitchen.

Don't you love these Cornish nine names

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try again - "Blister copper" from Cooks Kitchen.

Galena with Siderite, Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope. FOV=5 cm.

Inspiring specimens! A real pleasure to view.

Here's a little galena on baryte... doesn't compare with the larger cabinet pieces being shown, but I really like this miniature.

Galena on Baryte
Whitesmith Mine, Strontian, North West Highlands (Argyllshire), Scotland, UK
3.2cm x 2.2cm
Larger well formed galena crystal 6mm

Here's a bit from the Heights Quarry, Weardale, showing both the penetration twinning and well-developed vicinal faces typical of fluorite from the area.

An historical old Devon fluorite from an unnamed Bere Alston mine and probably collected in the early 1800s, crystals to 20mm.

Originally in the collection of Clarence Bement (1846-1923) , for whom bementite is named, his collection, said to be "the finest collection of minerals ever made" was purchased in 1900 by financier J.P. Morgan (beryl var morganite) and donated to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. There is a black arrow on the underside (painted on all AMNH display specimens at that time) to guide staff in what the then curator, Louis Gratacrap, believed was the correct orientation for display.

Traded out of the AMNH, the specimen was subsequently in the collection of Dr Richard Hauck (hauckite). Old Bere Alston pieces are very hard to find, I was pleased to get this

NICE historic fluorite, Ian !!!

Just finished packing for Tucson, the trip starts tomorrow and I hit the US on Friday. Sat here with a celebratory G&T and about to go out for a meal with Mrs Jones before I disappear for a month in the sun. life is hard at times

Not the biggest fluorite in the world, but a classic St Agnes "4-face cube" from Trevaunance Mine, 1cm.