Llechwedd Helyg Mine, Pen-bont Rhydybeddau, Trefeirig, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
© Steve Rust
Light powder blue sulphatian-Schmiederite with darker blue Linarite which may also be selenium-bearing. Emerald green Brochantite pale green balls of Malachite.
Actually, these blue balls have been tested as Sulphate-bearing Schmiederite.
© steve rust
Royal blue to light blue feathery crystal area of an as yet unnamed mineral. With drusey light blue-green caledonite, and colourless mattheddleite. Image width 2mm. Collected 1987.
Wulfenite crystals to 0.75mm. Collected 1983. Steve Rust photo & collection
Pearly foilated crust on cerussite. Collected 1986. Steve Rust photo & collection.
Collected 1983. Steve Rust photo & collection.
Susannite crystals with Covelline/Galena inclusions.
Groups of radial acicular crystal to 1mm. Collected 1986. Steve Rust photo & collection
Image width about 8mm. Collected 1992
A piece of "holely" gossan matrix has two main cavities richly filled with glossy gark green sprays of malachite to approx 2.3cm long. A little white contrast is given by some mico gypsum on the surface.
© 2002 Thames Valley Minerals
Fan-like masses of malachite to 1.5cm in pale blue crysocolla line cavites, in goethite-quartz veinstuff. Collected 1984.
Lath-like crystals of steverustite to 0.5mm on creamy susannite with blue caledonite.
Area 3cms. Botryoidal malachite with white mostly tabular crystal of cerussite, on quartz. With the odd scattered orange tabular tiny crystals of wulfenite. Collected 1984.
Crystal on quartz.
Royal blue to light blue feathery crystal area of an as yet unnamed mineral. With drusey light blue-green caledonite, and colourless mattheddleite. Image width 6mm approx. Collected 1987.
Small wulfenite crystal in matrix. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Sprays of malachite crystals to 12mm. Collected in the early 1980s
Pyramidal crystals of Mattheddleite with Caledonite
The blue mineral is undetermined.
A tentative ID of Lanarkite.
The Redgillite shows some alteration by ??
Rare prismatic Susannite crystals.
Light green, elongated, translucent pyromorphite crystals. Associated with wulfenite, which is not in the photo. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Blue schmiederite with colorless quartz. Former Ewald Mueller collection. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Blue needles of schmiederite. Stack of 25 images.
© Steve Sorrell
Lath-like crystals of Steverustite with yellow-brown balls of Anglesite on botryoidal Susannite.
The blue crust maybe Woodwardite.
Sulphatian Schmiederite
