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Oi! What about the best of the Brits?

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Jesse Fisher
Re: Oi! What about the best of the Brits?
January 18, 2012 03:19PM 		us    
I think we're having too many colorful minerals here, so it's time for an alstonite. This one on calcite from the Brownley Hill Mine, Alston Moor. 7 cm tall. The specimen is accompanied by a label from James Gregory (progenitor of the London mineral dealing firm Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd) dating it to the early 1860s.


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Joan Kureczka
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January 19, 2012 01:50AM 		us    
Tourmaline -- well, schorl. With apatite & quartz. Wooley Farm, Bovey Tracey, Devon. For those who thought I'd only post fluorite.


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Geoffrey Small
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January 20, 2012 07:29PM
Twinned fluorite from the Rogerley Mine.
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Malcolm Southwood
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January 21, 2012 10:07PM 		au    
Jesse, I love the alstonite and the history is special.

Back to some colour, (though not too many crystals this time). This is a type-locality arthurite, from Hingston Down Consols in Cornwall. The specimen is 90mm across, and I've added a close-up of the arthurite (FOV c.30mm). There is a little scorodite associated.
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Paul De Bondt
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January 21, 2012 11:27PM 		be    
Hi all,

Nice specimens, thanks for shearing.

Here's some colour too.

Bassetite and Bayldonite, both from the TL.
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Zenjoy.

Paul.
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Woody Thompson
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January 22, 2012 01:17AM
Polished malachite slab from United Mines, Gwennap, Cornwall. Documented as having come from the collection of Lt. Col. G. T. G. Williams, and originally from the Williams family's Scorrier House. This is one of the remnants from a batch of unusually choice Cornish malachite used to make a table comparable in quality to Russian malachite for the 1851 Crystal Palace exhibition in London. 7 cm.
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Geoffrey Small
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January 22, 2012 03:39AM
Here's a gigantic baryte from one of the mines in Frizington, Cumbria. From the collection of the Harvard Mineralogical Museum.
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Ian Jones
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January 24, 2012 03:42AM 		gb    
Hello from Tucson!

Time for another Millerite, this time a a fairly rare English location, Greystone Quarry in Cornwall. Crystals to 19mm on dolomite, collected in 1988
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Steve Sorrell
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January 25, 2012 10:18AM 		au    
A nice yellow fluorite from Avon...

Fluorite, Hampstead Farm© crocoite.com

Regards
Steve
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Bradley Plotkin
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January 30, 2012 12:38AM
Here is a bismuthinite from the Carrock mine. - Regards - Brad.
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Paul De Bondt
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January 31, 2012 11:23AM 		be    
Hi all,

Thanks for shearing all these fine specimens.

Here's one of the relics from Devon, a Lady's Slipper from the Virtuous Lady mine.

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Zenjoy.

Paul.
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Jesse Fisher
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January 31, 2012 02:38PM 		us    
Not too many decent British minerals to be see around Tucson yet (if you discount that ever-present green stuff). I did find this lovely little Boltsburn fluorite lurking in one room at the InnSuites show, however.



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Ian Jones
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January 31, 2012 03:42PM 		gb    
A nice old-time piece from Fowey Consols in Cornwall.

Chalcotrichite with goethite in quartz, overall specimen 70x70mm, this cavity is 20x12mm. An ex Natural History Museum collection piece, purchased by them from mineral dealer Richard Talling at a cost of £1 10s in 1861. Specimen still has the original Talling number on the rear.
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Paul De Bondt
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January 31, 2012 06:10PM 		be    
Hi,

Gee Ian and Jesse ! Gorgeous as much as the other posts.

Here's a British classic, " stupid " chalcedony from Cornwall, probably from the Trevascus mine.
I did not posted on Mindat yet because the locality is not yet clearly defined.
Specimen is over nearly 20 cm long.

Zenjoy.

Paul.
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Ian Jones
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February 10, 2012 05:36AM 		gb    
great party guys and girls!

back at the apartment cooling down with a british beer, so i thought that i'd stick up one of britian's finest before bed calls.

instead of a rock this time, it's one of our finest mineral locations - the crowns at botallack
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Steve Sorrell
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February 11, 2012 11:59PM 		au    
Nice shot Ian!
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Paul De Bondt
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February 19, 2012 04:33PM 		be    
Ian, very nice shot.
Wish I was there.smileys with beer

Paul.
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Steven Nowak
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March 30, 2012 05:07PM 		de    
This is my best specimen from the UK:

Galena with Sphalerite from Heights Quarry, Weardale, England.

50 x 28 mm
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Paul De Bondt
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April 14, 2012 04:54PM 		be    
Hi all,

Great posts everyone. Thanks for sharing.
Trying to swing on this topic.
Dont tell me that there are only these 6 pages of gorgeous specimens out there !!!!!
Keep them coming.

Here's my contribution for today, hematite with quartz from the Florence mine.
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Take care and best regards.

Paul.
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