Whilst browsing around Mindat I came across some information about the Turf Pits Mine locality at Grassington Moor in North Yorkshire, England regarding some minerals that had been removed from the list due to the high probability of fraudulent recording of discovery by A.W.G. Kingsbury. Sadly the Mineralogical Society link on that page came back as a 404 ‘dead’ link! Similarly, all the minerals listed for the nearby Chatsworth Mine at Grassington Moor had all been removed from the list there due to the high probability of fraudulent recording of discovery by A.W.G. Kingsbury.

Who was this Kingsbury person? I was intrigued and did find some information about him on Mindat. However, after a little digging I also came across a paper in THE GEOLOGICAL CURATOR VOLUME 6, No. 9 (dated June 1998) that I thought I would share as it might be of some interest (especially in light of recent discussions regarding adding photographs of minerals to Mindat from collecting sites and ‘rock farms’ which might pollute galleries and search results).

Link here: https://www.geocurator.org/images/resources/geocurator/vol6/geocurator_6_9.pdf