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Taff's Well, Cardiff (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

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Baryte : BaSO4, Calcite : CaCO3

Ton Mawr Quarry, Taff's Well, Cardiff (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Bladed barite crystals to 5mm with calcite. Steve Rust photo & collection
 © Steve RustPhoto ID: 1747    View Count: 530

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

Taff's Well Quarry, Taff's Well, Cardiff (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Salmon pink cockscomb barite, 60mm across, with stalactitic goethite. Ian Jones collection
 © Ian JonesPhoto ID: 5903    View Count: 497

Baryte : BaSO4

Taff's Well Quarry, Taff's Well, Cardiff (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Group of pink cockscomb barite crystals 75mm across, with deeper red ironstaining on edges. Ian Jones collection, collected 1981.
 © Ian JonesPhoto ID: 4840    View Count: 435

Baryte : BaSO4, Calcite : CaCO3

Ton Mawr Quarry, Taff's Well, Cardiff (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Area of shot 4x4cms. Pinkish bladed crystals of barite partly coated by acute rhombic crystals of calcite.
 © Steve RustPhoto ID: 15049    View Count: 389

Baryte : BaSO4, Calcite : CaCO3, Quartz : SiO2

Taff's Well Quarry, Taff's Well, Cardiff (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Beautiful plate covered on both sides with platy, white barite crystals up to 8 mm overgrown on rhombic, brown calcite crystals up to 3 mm and minor quartz. The contrast of the barite against the matrix is very attractive. Undamaged. Collected in 1988. Ex. Dr. R.J. King; Ex. S. Chamberlain (NY). Overall size of mineral specimen: 11x7x4 cm. Size of ...
 © 2003 John H. BettsPhoto ID: 9867    View Count: 359

Calcite : CaCO3

Taff's Well Quarry, Taff's Well, Cardiff (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Translucent 30mm calcite crystal on smaller ironstained crystals. Ian Jones collection, collected 2001
 © Ian JonesPhoto ID: 7356    View Count: 334

Calcite : CaCO3

Taff's Well Quarry, Taff's Well, Cardiff (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Size 11.5x 9.5cm. Gerard van der Veldt collection and photo.
 © G. van der VeldtPhoto ID: 114925    View Count: 186

Calcite : CaCO3

Ton Mawr Quarry, Taff's Well, Cardiff (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Doubly terminated twinned scalenohedrons formed from generational stacks of lenticulated crystals. 8cm X 5cm X 7.5cm
 © Geoffrey KrasnovPhoto ID: 87861    View Count: 123

Calcite : CaCO3

Taff's Well Quarry, Taff's Well, Cardiff (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

A phantomed hedgehog shaped crystal. 4.5cm X 3.5cm X 3.5cm
 © Geoffrey KrasnovPhoto ID: 91366    View Count: 98

Calcite : CaCO3

Taff's Well Quarry, Taff's Well, Cardiff (Mid Glamorgan; Glamorgan), Wales, UK

Scalenahedral calcite crystals showing two growth phases and coloured red by hematite (75mm across). Ian Jones collection, collected 1995
 © Ian JonesPhoto ID: 7388    View Count: 367
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