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PhotosCalcite - Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire, England, UK

23rd Mar 2013 13:04 UTCMark Wrigley Expert

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Calcite
Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK
Copyright © Geoffrey Krasnov
I have a feeling this calcite specimen - very good though it is - would be more at home in a West Cumbrian locality,

23rd Mar 2013 13:52 UTCRobert W. E. Neilson

I have a few calcites I collected at Ladywash but they are all dogtooth, nothing like what you have pictured.

23rd Mar 2013 14:21 UTCSteve Rust Manager

Probably West Cumbria.

23rd Mar 2013 18:03 UTCIan Jones Expert

Have a few specimens from Ladywash, and have collected underground there. Have never seen a calcite remotely like this


On the other hand I've seen hundreds like it from west Cumbria

28th Mar 2013 02:04 UTCAndy Lawton

My gut reaction would be from somewhere in Cumbria. I have an old Joseph Neeld calcite from Eyam, of a similar habit on fluorite & sphalerite typical of the area. Nowhere near as lustrous or clear as the specimen in the photograph. It would be useful to see what the back of the specimen looks like.
 
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