Micromounts A to B...........Updated 23 January 2015
1 ADAMITE - Kamariza Mine, Laurion, Greece Pale green glassy Adamite xtls in cavities in gossan matrix £1.00 1
2 ADAMITE - Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico Parallel growth of pale green Adamite xtls on gossan matrix £1.00 £1.50p 1 1
3 ADAMITE-Ni - KM3, Laurion, Greece SOLD Small glassy green Adamite-Ni xtls in a cavity in matrix with Dolomite & Calcite . .
4 ADULARIA & STILBITE - Lyndseys Leap Quarry, Newcastle, Co. Down, Northern Ireland White Adularia xtls with pale brown Stilbite xtls on graniter matrix with some smoky quartz £1.50p 1
5 AGARDITE-Ce - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany Green acicular Agardite-Ce xtls in cavities in quartz or barytes matrix +/- Cornwallite 50p £1.00 £1.50p 1 1 2
6 AGARDITE-Ce - Kamariza Mine, Laurion, Greece Pale green acicular Agardite-Ce xtls in cavities in gossan matrix +/- Cupro-Adamite £1.00 1
7 ALBITE, HAEMATITE & PUMPELLYITE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland SOLD Small white Albite xtls in a cavity in matrix with tiny reddish micaceous Haematite xtls and greenish velvety Pumpellyite . .
8 ALBITE, PARISITE-Ce & ANATASE - Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway SOLD Small creamy to colourless Albite xtls with pale brown hexagonal Parisite-Ce xtls and shiny black bipyramidal Anatase xtls in gas cavities in matrix . .
9 ALLOPHANE - Wedding Cave Mine, Bwlchgwyn, Denbighshire, Wales SOLD Bright blue gelatinous Allophane in a cavity in chert matrix . .
10 ANALCITE - Port na Boe, Giants Causeway, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland Small colourless Analcite xtls lining cavity in matrix 50p 1
11 ANALCITE - Talisker Point, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland Greyish Analcite xtls lining cavities in basalt matrix +/- a little Mesolite £1.00 £1.50p 4 1
12 ANALCITE - Talisker Point, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland Large white (to 7mm) Analcite xtls on matrix 50p £1.00 3 4
13 ANALCITE - Tanzenberg Tunnel, Steiermark, Austria Small colourless Analcite xtls lining cavities in matrix 50p £1.00 2 2
14 ANAPAITE - Prats Sampsor, Cerdanya, Lerida, Catalonia, Spain Pale green translucent Anapaite xtls in cavities in matrix £1.50p 1
15 ANATASE - Cligga Head, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England Tiny shiny black tabular Anatase xtls in cavities in partially kaolinised Granite matrix +/- Cassiterite, Tourmaline Adularia, Clinochlore 50p 4
16 ANATASE - Hendrehenydd, Penrhyndeudrath, Merionethshire, Wales SOLD Greyish-blue tabular Anatase xtls in quartz matrix . .
17 ANATASE - Moel Ysgyfarnogod, Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire, Wales SOLD Greyish-blue to black tabular to bipyramidal Anatase xtls in quartz matrix . .
18 ANATASE - Shap Granite Quarry, Shap, Westmorland, England Small black truncated bipyramidal Anatase xtls in cavities in granite matrix +/- Brookite, Rutile, Apatite 50p 1
19 ANATASE - Shap Granite Quarry, Shap, Westmorland, England Small slightly "squashed" dark sherry coloured bipyramidal Anatase xtls in cavities in granite matrix +/- Brookite 50p 1
20 ANATASE - Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway Shiny black bipyramidal Anatase xtls gas in cavities in matrix £1.00 2
21 ANATASE - Wheal Cock, St. Just, Cornwall, England Tiny very thin greyish tabular Anatase xtls on matrix 50p 2
22 ANATASE & ALBITE - Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway Small creamy to colourless Albite xtls with shiny black bipyramidal Anatase xtls in gas cavities in matrix £1.00 3
23 ANATASE, ALBITE & PARISITE-Ce - Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway Shiny black bipyramidal Anatase xtls with small creamy to colourless Albite xtls and pale brown hexagonal Parisite-Ce xtls in gas cavities in matrix £2.00 1
24 ANATASE, ALBITE & SPHENE - Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway Shiny black bipyramidal Anatase xtls with small creamy to colourless Albite xtls and pale brown Sphene xtls in gas cavities in matrix £1.50p 1
25 ANATASE, PARISITE-Ce & ALBITE - Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway Shiny black bipyramidal Anatase xtls with small creamy to colourless Albite xtls and pale brown hexagonal Parisite-Ce xtls in gas cavities in matrix +/- some pale brown Sphene xtls £1.00 £1.50p £2.00 1 2 2
26 ANGLESITE - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany Colourless Anglesite xtls in cavity in galena in galena/quartz matrix 50p 1
27 ANGLESITE - Coldstones Quarry, Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, England SOLD Glass clear colourless Anglesite xtls in cavity in galena matrix . .
28 ANGLESITE - Isolation Mine, Snelston, Derbyshire, England Colourless to white Anglesite xtls in galena matrix with minor linarite & cerussite 50p £1.50p 1 2
29 ANGLESITE - Silver Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Tiny whitish blocky Anglesite xtls in cavity in quartz/galena matrix 50p 1
30 ANGLESITE & MIMETITE - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany Colourless Anglesite xtls in cavity in galena/quartz matrix with yellow and green acicular Mimetite xtls £1.00 1
31 ANILITE - Castletown Mine, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland Dark silvery black Anilite infilling cavities in cellular quartz matrix +/- Chalcopyrite, Haematite, Clinoatacamite £1.00 £1.50p 1 4
32 ANILITE & CLINOATACAMITE - Castletown Mine, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland SOLD Dark silvery black Anilite infilling cavities in cellular quartz matrix with small dark green Clinoatacamite +/- Chalcopyrite, Haematite . .
33 ANNABERGITE - KM3 Mine, Laurion, Greece Cavities in gossan matrix containing bright green "classic" Annabergite xtls £1.00 2
34 ANNABERGITE & GERSDORFFITE - Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumberland, England SOLD Light green crust of Annabergite with grey Gersdorffite in gossan matrix . .
35 APATITE - Cligga Head, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England984 Small whitish hexagonal Apatite xtls embedded in matrix. Fluoresces. +/- Tourmaline, Cassiterite, Anatase 50p 1
36 APATITE - Gunheath Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall, England Whitish hexagonal Apatite xtl in a cavity in achroite/gilbertite matrix 50p 1
37 APATITE - Shap Granite Quarry, Shap, Westmorland, England Small colourless hexagonal Apatite xtls in cavities in granite matrix +/- Anatase, Brookite 50p 3
38 APATITE-CAF (FRANCOLITE) - Gunnislake Clitters, Calstock, Cornwall, England SOLD Colourless, but orange by transmitted light hexagonal Apatite-CAF xtls thickly covering granite matrix . .
39 APATITE-CAF (FRANCOLITE) - Tresavean Mine, Redruth, Cornwall, England Cavity in sphalerite/quartz matrix lined with clear hexagonal Apatite-CAF xtls £1.50p 1
40 APATITE-CAF & ILMENITE - Lovozero, Jubilenaya, Kola Peninsula, Russia SOLD White botryoidal Apatite-CAF lining cavities in matrix with black shiny Ilmenite . .
41 APOPHYLLITE - Biod a Mhurain, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland Part of a clear terminated Apophyllite xtl with white Gyrolite, no matrix 50p 1
42 APOPHYLLITE & PREHNITE - Luckstone Corp. Quarry, Bealton, Virginia, USA SOLD Whitish blocky Apophyllite xtls on pale green Prehnite xtls . .
43 ARAGONITE - Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Cumberland, England Small white sprays of white Aragonite xtls on matrix 50p £1.00 1 1
44 ARAGONITE & CALCITE - Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany SOLD Colourless bladed Aragonite xtls on greyish tabular Calcite xtls on gossan matrix . .
45 ARAGONITE & CALCITE - Karikas Hill Quarry, Bazsi, Veszprem Co., Hungary SOLD Greyish multiple twinned Calcite xtls on clear columnar Aragonite xtls . .
46 ARAGONITE & ORPIMENT - Kazignan, Turkey SOLD Colourless to white elongated Aragonite xtls with yellow powdery Orpiment on matrix . .
47 ARTHURITE - Gunheath Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall, England Thin green crusts of Arthurite on granite matrix £1.00 1
48 ARTINITE - Spring Street, Staten Island, New York, USA Crusts of tiny white micaceous Artinite xtls on matrix £1.50p 1
49 AURICHALCITE - Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall, England SOLD Pale greenish-blue feathery Aurichalcite xtls in gossan matrix . .
50 AURICHALCITE - Mouldridge Mine, Pike Hall, Derbyshire, England Sprays of bluish-green Aurichalcite xtls in cavities in calcite matrix £1.00 £1.50p £2.00 2 1 1
51 AURICHALCITE - Omega Mine, Pima Co., Arizona, USA Mass of greenish-blue feathery Aurichalcite xtls infilling cavities in gossan matrix 50p £1.00 1 2
52 AURICHALCITE & HEMIMORPHITE - Judkins Quarry, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England Pale bluish-green feathery Aurichalcite with small sprays of white Hemimorphite granite matrix 50p £1.00 3 2
53 AURICHALCITE & MALACHITE - Waterbank Mine, Ecton Hill, Staffordshire, England SOLD Bluish-green Aurichalcite spheres lining cavities in matrix with green Malachite . .
54 AURICHALCITE, SMITHSONITE & HEMIMORPHITE - Mouldridge Mine, Pike Hall, Derbyshire, England SOLD Sprays of bluish-green Aurichalcite xtls with tiny sand like Smithsonite xtls and colourless bladed Hemimorphite xtls in cavities in calcite matrix . .
55 AZURITE - Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA Aggregates of deep blue bladed or blocky Azurite xtls on or off matrix +/- Malachite, Aurichalcite £1.00 £1.50p £2.00 2 3 1
56 AZURITE - Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Radnorshire, Wales Spheres and crusts of tiny dark blue Azurite xtls in cavities in galena/tennantite/gossan matrix 50p £1.50p 2 2
57 AZURITE - Eagle Crag Mine, Grisedale, Westmorland, England SOLD Tiny dark blue Azurite xtls with some Malachite on quartz matrix . .
58 AZURITE - Ecton Hill, Ecton, Staffordshire, England Small deep blue Azurite xtls on chalcopyrite/calcite matrix 50p £1.00 1 3
59 AZURITE - Gortdrum Mine, Tipperary, Co. Tipperary, Ireland Tiny blue Azurite xtls on matrix +/- Asbolane, Cinnabar 50p 1
60 AZURITE - Isolation Mine, Snelston, Derbyshire, England Small deep blue Azurite xtls and globular aggregates with some Malachite on gossan matrix £1.00 £1.50p 3 4
61 AZURITE - Kamariza Mine, Laurion, Greece Sparkling deep blue Azurite xtls in gossan matrix +/- Malachite £1.00 1
62 AZURITE - Montgaillard, Aude, France Small sparkling deep blue Azurite xtls +/- some small colourless Barytes xtls in cavities in matrix £1.00 1
63 AZURITE - Morenci Mine, Greenlee Co., Arizona, USA Deep blue bladed Azurite xtls in gossan matrix £1.50p 1
64 AZURITE - Tynagh Mine, Loughrea, Co. Galway, Ireland Bright deep blue Azurite xtls in barytes matrix £1.00 1
65 AZURITE - Westcott Mine, Habberley, Shropshire, England Small dark blue Azurite xtls with black bitumen in matrix £1.00 1
66 AZURITE, BARYTES & QUARTZ - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany SOLD Cluster of deep blue Azurite xtls with colourless bladed Barytes xtls and whitish Quartz xtls on matrix . .
67 AZURITE & CLINOTYROLITE - Herren Adit, Schwarzleo District, Salzburg, Austria SOLD Small dark blue aggregates of Azurite xtls with bluish-green Clinotyrolite on gossan matrix . .
68 AZURITE & MALACHITE - Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England Blue and green spots and specks in sandstone matrix 50p 1
69 AZURITE & MALACHITE - Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA Aggregates of deep blue bladed or blocky Azurite xtls with globular green Malachite £1.00 £1.50p £2.00 1 1 3
70 AZURITE & MALACHITE - Bleakmere Quarry, Bonsall Moor, Derbyshire, England SOLD Dark blue Azurite xtls and green Malachite xtls in gossan matrix . .
71 AZURITE & MALACHITE - Isolation Mine, Snelston, Derbyshire, England Small spherical aggregates of tiny blue Azurite xtls with acicular Malachite on gossan matrix £1.00 £1.50p 1 2
72 AZURITE, MALACHITE & BITUMEN - Westcott Mine, Habberley, Shropshire, England Small dark blue Azurite xtls with green malachite and black bitumen in matrix £1.50p 2
73 AZURITE, MALACHITE & CHRYSOCOLLA - Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England Blue and green spots and specks with greenish-blue Chrysocolla in sandstone matrix 50p 3
74 AZURITE & MIMETITE - Tynagh Mine, Loughrea, Co. Galway, Ireland SOLD Dark blue Azurite xtls with white Mimetite in matrix . .
75 BARIUM PHARMACOSIDERITE - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany Orange-brown cubic Barium Pharmacosiderite xtls on matrix +/- Cornwallite, Azurite, Fluorite, Barytes £1.50p 1
76 BARYTES - Barras End Mine, Melbeck Moor, North Yorkshire, England Dark brown chisel-shaped Barytes xtls in cavity in barytes matrix £1.50p 1
77 BARYTES - Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Colourless tabular or elongated Barytes xtls in quartz/gossan matrix +/- Bindheimite 50p 1
78 BARYTES - Killiney Lead Mine, Killiney, Dublin, Ireland Small whitish blocky Barytes xtls in cavities in Barytes/Galena/Quartz matrix +/- Cerussite 50p 1
79 BARYTES & CALCITE - Vernasca, Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Colourless Barytes xtls on creamy Calcite xtls £1.00 1
80 BARYTES & FLUORITE - Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire, England Clusters of small white tabular Barytes xtls on mauve cubic Fluorite xtls on matrix £1.00 1
81 BARYTES & HAEMATITE - Castletown Mine, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland Small colourless tabular Barytes xtls with reddish-brown micaceous Haematite in cavities in cellular quartz matrix 50p £1.00 1 3
82 BAYLDONITE - Brandy Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Green botryoidal Balydonite in cavities in quartz gossan matrix £1.00 £1.50p 4 1
83 BAYLDONITE - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany Tiny globules of green Bayldonite encrusting Barytes matrix £2.00 1
84 BAYLDONITE, BIRNESSITE & MIMETITE - Penberthy Croft Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England SOLD Small green rounded rhombic Bayldonite xtls with black Birnessite encrusting tabular hexagonal Mimetite xtls on matrix . .
85 BAYLDONITE & MIMETITE - Penberthy Croft Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England Cavities in gossan matrix filled with dark green globular Bayldonite and creamy Mimetite xtls £1.50p 2
86 BEAUDANTITE - Dry Gully, Brandy Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England SOLD Tiny green spheres of Beaudantite in quartz matrix . .
87 BEAUDANTITE - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany SOLD Tiny greenish-yellow spiky Beaudantite xtls forming clusters, alsom single doubly terminated xtls on Barytes matrix . .
88 BEAUDANTITE - Scree east side of Thief Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Area of tiny drusy Beaudantite xtls on matrix £1.00 1
89 BEAUDANTITE - Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Cumberland, England Tiny pale orange Beaudantite xtls matrix +/- Selenite, Malachite. Tested specimen 50p £1.00 £1.50p 1 3 2
90 BEAUDANTITE - Wheal Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall, England Tiny greenish-brown Beaudantite xtls on quartz matrix £1.00 1
91 BEAUDANTITE & Ba-PHARMACOSIDERITE - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany SOLD Tiny greenish Beaudantite xtls with brown cubic Ba-Pharmacosiderite xtls on quartz xtls on matrix . .
92 BEAUDANTITE & GOETHITE - Scree east side of Thief Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England SOLD Small brownish Beaudantite xtls on irridescent Goethite in quartz matrix . .
93 BEAUDANTITE, MIMETITE & CARMINITE - Deer Hills, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England SOLD Greenish-yellow crust of minute Beaudantite xtls with minute red Carminite xtls and white elongated Mimetite xtls on quartz matrix . .
94 BERAUNITE - Coon Creek Mine, Polk Co., Arkansas, USA Mass of reddish-brown intergrown Beraunite xtls, no matrix 50p 1
95 BERAUNITE - Cornelia Mine, Hagendorf-Sud, Bavaria, Germany SOLD Drusy mass of tiny brown Beraunite xtls on matrix . .
96 BERAUNITE - Gravel Hill Mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England Sprays of small dark green acicular Beraunite xtls on gossan matrix £1.00 2
97 BERTRANDITE, PARISITE-Ce, ANATASE & ALBITE - Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway SOLD Small elongated single Bertrandite xtls with pale brown hexagonal Parisite-Ce xtls, shiny black bipyramidal Anatase xtls and small creamy to colourless Albite xtls and pale brown hexagonal Parisite-Ce xtls in gas cavities in matrix . .
99 BISMITE Pseudomorph after BISMUTHINITE - Wheal Cock, St. Just, Cornwall, England Small yellow acicular Bismite Pseudo after Bismuthinite needles in cavities in arsenopyrite/chlorite matrix £1.00 £1.50p 11 4
101 BISMUTH, ARSENOPYRITE & BISMUTITE - Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England SOLD Small cleavages of "pinkish" metallic Bismuth with a silvery Arsenopyrite xtl embedded in matrix and pale yellow powdery Bismutite in quartz matrix . .
100 BISMUTH & BISMUTITE - Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Small cleavages of "pinkish" metallic Bismuth with pale yellow powdery Bismutite in quartz matrix +/- Molybdenite, Pyrite £1.00 1
102 BISMUTH, MOLYBDENITE & ARSENOPYRITE - Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England SOLD Small cleavages of "pinkish" metallic Bismuth with a grey Arsenopyrite and silvery-grey Molybdenite in quartz matrix . .
103 BISMUTHINITE - Buckbarrow Beck, Corney Fell, Cumberland, England Bright silvery Bismuthinite embedded in quartz matrix 50p 6
104 BISMUTHINITE - Cathedral Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, England Silvery black fibrous Bismuthinite xtls embedded in quartz matrix 50p 1
105 BIMUTHINITE - Wheal Cock, St. Just, Cornwall, England Small black acicular Bismuthinite xtls in cavities in arsenopyrite/chlorite matrix +/- yellow acicular Bismite Pseudo after Bismuthinite £1.00 £1.50p 24 14
106 BOTALLACKITE - Castletown Mine, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland SOLD Bluish-green bladed Botallackite xtls in cavities in cellular quartz matrix +/- Clinoatacamite, Haematite, Anilite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite . .
107 BOULANGERITE - Brosso Mine, Lessolo, Torino, Italy SOLD Very fine elongated acicular Boulangerite xtls in cavities in quartz/dolomite matrix . .
108 BRAUNITE - Ohrenstock, Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany SOLD Tiny shiny black Braunite xtls on matrix . .
109 BREWSTERITE-Sr - Whitesmith Mine, Strontian, Argyllshire, Scotland Colourless to pale brown Brewsterite-Sr xtls on matrix £1.00 £2.00 1 1
110 BROCHANTITE - Nant Melyn Mine, Hafren Forest, Montgomeryshire, Wales Small green lenticular Brochantite xtls in cavities in quartz gossan matrix 50p £1.00 3 1
111 BROCHANTITE - Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England SOLD Custs of minute green Brochantite xtls with some Linarite in quartz matrix . .
112 BROCHANTITE - Silver Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Tiny bright green Brochantite xtls in cavities in gossan matrix 50p 1
114 BROCHANTITE & LINARITE - Silver Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England SOLD Tiny green Brochantite xtls with blue Linarite xtls in cavity in gossan matrix +/- Cerussite . .
116 BROOKITE - Shap Granite Quarry, Shap, Westmorland, England Small reddish-brown bladed Brookite xtls in cavities in granite matrix +/- Anatase, Rutile 50p 4
117 BROOKITE & RUTILE - Shap Granite Quarry, Shap, Westmorland, England Small reddish-brown bladed Brookite xtls with radiating sprays of grey acicular Rutile in cavities in granite matrix +/- Apatite, Anatase £1.00 £1.50p 10 2
118 BROOKITE, RUTILE & ANATASE - Shap Granite Quarry, Shap, Westmorland, England Small reddish-brown bladed Brookite xtls with radiating sprays of grey acicular Rutile and black bipyramidal Anatase xtls in cavities in granite matrix +/- Apatite £1.00 £1.50p 7 1
119 BROOKITE, RUTILE, ANATASE & MONAZITE-Ce - Shap Granite Quarry, Shap, Westmorland, England Small reddish-brown bladed Brookite xtls with radiating sprays of grey acicular Rutile and black bipyramidal Anatase, and tiny brown roseattes of minute Monazite-Ce xtls in cavities in granite matrix +/- Apatite £1.00 4