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Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

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Baryte : BaSO4

Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr, Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Stubby transparent 10mm barite crystal in a siderite lined cavity in ironstone. Ian Jones collection, collected June 1989.
 © Ian JonesPhoto ID: 5304    View Count: 492

Baryte : BaSO4, Goethite : α-Fe3+O(OH)

Cwm Leyshon Quarry, Draethen, Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Barite coated with goethite and a later phase of barite. Largest crystal 15mm. Ian Jones collection, collected June 1995
 © Ian JonesPhoto ID: 5287    View Count: 489

Baryte : BaSO4

Cwm Leyshon Quarry, Draethen, Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Blue-grey barite crystals, 10-15mm. Ian Jones collection, collected 1991
 © Ian JonesPhoto ID: 6800    View Count: 466

Galena : PbS, Millerite : NiS

Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr, Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Galena crystals to 3mm neucleated on millerite crystals, on siderite. Ian Jones collection, collected 1989.
 © Ian JonesPhoto ID: 7355    View Count: 429

Goethite : α-Fe3+O(OH)

Cwm Leyshon Quarry, Draethen, Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Goethite forming a stout, 25mm, chisel-shaped tabular crystal after barite, on a group of similar, but smaller and less well formed crystals. Probably a pseudomorph by coating rather than by replacement. Ian Jones collection, collected 1995
 © Ian JonesPhoto ID: 6510    View Count: 590

Hemimorphite : Zn4[(OH)2|Si2O7] · H2O

Cwm Leyshon Quarry, Draethen, Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Spray of brown hemimorphite crystals to 12mm collected from uppermost bench.
 © Lloyd LlewellynPhoto ID: 32885    View Count: 293

Hemimorphite : Zn4[(OH)2|Si2O7] · H2O

Cwm Leyshon Quarry, Draethen, Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Yellow to greenish brown hemimorphite globules and crystals to 6mm collected from uppermost bench.
 © Lloyd LlewellynPhoto ID: 32886    View Count: 281

Millerite : NiS

Universal Colliery, Senghenydd, Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

15mm spray of very fine, bright millerite crystals. Ian Jones collection, collected March 1990.
 © Ian JonesPhoto ID: 5455    View Count: 444

Millerite : NiS, Galena : PbS, Quartz : SiO2

Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr, Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Millerite, crystals to 12mm, nucleated on a galena crystal, and spanning a siderite lined cavity in ironstone. Quartz crystal 10mm. Ian Jones collection, collected 1992.
 © Ian JonesPhoto ID: 10362    View Count: 413

Millerite : NiS

Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr, Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Bright, greenish 35x20mm spray of millerite crystals in a siderite lined ironstone cavity. Ian Jones collection, collected August 1989.
 © Ian JonesPhoto ID: 5331    View Count: 363
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