Micromounts Q to S...........Updated 21 January 2012
| 373 |
RHODONITE - Cucma, Slovakia |
Pink xtlline Rhodonite with other black manganese minerals |
50p |
3 |
| 376 |
ROSASITE - Ramsbeck, Meschede, Sauerland, Germany |
Bluish-green botryoidal Rosasite on gossan matrix |
£1.00 |
2 |
| 828 |
RUTILE - Lanterdan Quarry, Tintagel, Cornwall, England
SOLD |
Small but very nice specimen of yellow reticulated Rutile needles on quartz matrix |
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| 829 |
SAFFLORITE - Hartenstein, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany |
Tiny metallic Safflorite xtls on matrix +/- Chloanthite (cubic) |
£1.00 |
1 |
| 830 |
SAFFLORITE Pseudomorph after SILVER - Shaft 207, Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
SOLD |
Encrustations of minute Safflorite xtls pseudomorphing Silver plus some small cubic Chloanthite xtls, no matrix |
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| 830 |
SAFFLORITE Pseudomorph after SILVER & PROUSTITE - Shaft 207, Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
SOLD |
Encrustations of minute Safflorite xtls pseudomorphing Silver plus some small cubic Chloanthite xtls and small
ruby red Proustite xtls, no matrix |
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| 382 |
SCOLECITE - Mullion Cove, Mullion, Cornwall, England |
Vein infillings of white radiating Scolecite, little or no matrix. Confirmed specimens |
50p |
2 |
| 383 |
SCOLECITE - Ulva Quarry, Ulva Island, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland |
Small vesicles filled with white fibrous Scolecite. Confirmed specimens |
£1.00 |
2 |
| 384 |
SCORODITE - Bell Pit, Calebrack, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England |
Pale yellowish to greenish-grey crust of Scorodite on matrix |
50p £1.00 |
4 1 |
| 385 |
SCORODITE - Deer Hills, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England |
Thin creamy to pale green crust of minute Scorodite xtls on quartz matrix +/- Pharmacosiderite |
50p £1.00 |
4 4 |
| 386 |
SCORODITE - Hingston Down Quarry, Calstock, Cornwall, England |
Pale bluish-grey to brown (iron stained) drusy Scorodite lining cavities in matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 832 |
SCORODITE - Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall, England |
Drusy greyish botryoidal Scorodite in cavities in gossan matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 833 |
SCORODITE - Wheal Music, Porthtowan, Cornwall, England |
Light bluish-grey to whitish botryoidal aggregates of minute drusy Scorodite xtls in matrix |
50p £1.00 |
2 2 |
| 388 |
SCORODITE Epimorph after SIDERITE - Bell Pit, Calebrack, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England |
Brownish "shells" of Scorodite epimorphing Siderite on matrix |
50p £1.00 |
3 4 |
| 636 |
SCORODITE & BEAUDANTITE - Deer Hills, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England |
Thin crust of minute grey Scorodite xtls with greenish-yellow to brown minutely xtllized Beaudantite on matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 637 |
SELENITE - Crich Quarry, Crich, Derbyshire, England |
Colourless Selenite xtls on gossan matrix |
50p £1.00 |
1 1 |
| 390 |
SELENITE - Jet Mine, Staithes, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England |
Clear elongated Selenite xtls on shale matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 834 |
SENARMONTITE - Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland
SOLD |
Minute colourless octahedral Senarmontite xtls in cavities in quartz/stibnite matrix |
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| 726 |
SIDERITE - Caistor Cahlk Pit, Caistor St. Edmunds, Norwich, Norfolk, England |
Tiny dark brown Siderite xtls in quartz cavity in a flint nodule |
50p |
1 |
| 394a |
SIDERITE - Halamanning Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England |
Small dark brown rhombic Siderite xtls in cavity in quartz matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 394b |
SIDERITE - Halamanning Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England |
Light brown mass of small intergrown rhombic Siderite xtls in cavity in quartz matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 710 |
SIDERITE - Kelly Bray Mine, Kelly Bray, Cornwall, England |
Small pale brown spiky Siderite xtls aggregating into larger "xtls" in cavities in Siderite matrix +/- Pyrite,
Apatite-CAF |
£1.00 |
2 |
| 835 |
SIDERITE - South Crofty Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England
SOLD |
Dark chocolate brown rhombic Siderite xtls on siderite matrix |
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| 642a |
SIDERITE - Wheal Cunning, St. Just, Cornwall, England |
Reddish-brown sharp rhombic Siderite xtls in cavities in quartz matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 642b |
SIDERITE - Wheal Cunning, St. Just, Cornwall, England |
Small brown modified rhombic Siderite xtls in cavities in quartz matrix |
50p |
2 |
| 642c |
SIDERITE - Wheal Cunning, St. Just, Cornwall, England |
Small chocolate-brown Siderite xtls encrusting surface of Goethite pseudos and epimorphs after Siderite |
£1.00 |
10 |
| 711 |
SIDERITE & APATITE-CAF - Kelly Bray Mine, Kelly Bray, Cornwall, England |
Small pale brown spiky Siderite xtls aggregating into larger "xtls" with white botryoidal aggregates of minute
Apatite-CAF on matrix |
£1.00 |
2 |
| 712 |
SIDERITE & PYRITE - Kelly Bray Mine, Kelly Bray, Cornwall, England |
Small pale brown spiky Siderite xtls aggregating into larger "xtls" with brassy cubic Pyrite xtls on matrix |
50p £1.00 |
1 2 |
| 836 |
SILVER - Pohla, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
SOLD |
Dendritic Silver xtls running through matrix |
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| 837 |
SILVER - Shaft 207, Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany |
Very bright and shiny Silver wires in Calcite matrix |
£1.00 £2.00 |
1 1 |
| 641 |
SMITHSONITE - Moelyydd Hill Mine, Nr. Llanyblodwel, Shropshire, England |
Pale brown masses of Smithsonite, not pretty but good location pieces |
50p |
3 |
| 401 |
SMITHSONITE - Old Millclose Mine, Matlock, Derbyshire, England |
Small light brown rounded Smithsonite xtls in cavities in Fluorite matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 838 |
SMITHSONITE - Rhosesmor Mine, Halkyn Mountain, Flintshire, Wales
SOLD |
Brownish cellular mass of rounded Smithsonite xtls, no matrix, really nice |
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| 643 |
SMITHSONITE - Stancombe Quarry, Flax Bouton, Somerset, England |
Tan coloured waxy looking Smithsonite in cavities in smithsonite/galena matrix |
50p £1.00 |
1 1 |
| 404 |
SMITHSONITE Epimorphs after CALCITE - Wetgrooves Mine, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, England |
Hollow casts of pale brown botryoidal Smithsonite remaining after the Calcite has gone on matrix |
50p £1.00 £1.50p |
2 3 1 |
| 839 |
SMITHSONITE, FLUORITE & SPHALERITE - Milldam Mine, Great Hucklow, Derbyshire, England
SOLD |
Small creamy coloured Smithsonite blobs with colourless Fluorite xtls and orange Sphalerite xtls on
limestone matrix |
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| 840 |
SPANGOLITE - Agouisha, Corsica, France
SOLD |
Crust of small greenish-blue Spangolite xtls in matrix |
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| 644 |
SPECULAR HAEMATITE & QUARTZ - Parkside mine, Frizington, Cumberland, England
SOLD |
Very thin and shiny black tabular Specular Haematite xtls on small Quartz xtls in cavity in matrix |
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| 841 |
SPECULAR HAEMATITE - Wheal Drea, St.Just, Cornwall, England
SOLD |
Shiny, black, thin hexagonal to rounded plates of Specular Haematite with white Adularia and Quartz xtls in
cavities in iron-stained granite matrix |
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| 408 |
SPHALERITE - Abbeytown Quarry, Ballysodare, Co. Sligo, Ireland |
Bright sparkling orange-brown Sphalerite xtls in cavities in Sphalerite matrix |
£1.00 |
3 |
| 409 |
SPHALERITE - Iron Cap Mine, Landsman Camp, Graham Co., Arizona, USA |
Rounded "weathered" Sphalerite xtls on Johannsenite matrix, pale yellowish-green on broken surfaces |
50p |
3 |
| 842 |
SPHALERITE - Kessels Down Quarry, Mabe, Cornwall, England
SOLD |
Small orange-brown Sphalerite xtl in cavity in granite matrix, unusual occurence |
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| 645 |
SPHALERITE - Les Malines Mine, St. Laurent-le-Minier, Gard, France |
Bright sparkling orange Sphalerite xtls on Dolomite xtls on matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 411 |
SPHALERITE - Middleshop Mine, Strontian, Argyllshire, England |
Black tetrahedral Sphalerite xtls on matrix |
50p £1.00 |
1 1 |
| 412 |
SPHALERITE - Milldam Mine, Great Hucklow, Derbyshire, England |
Small black to deep brown Sphalerite xtls on matrix +/- cerussite, greenockite and crusty smithsonite |
50p |
1 |
| 646 |
SPHALERITE - Milltown Quarry, Ashover, Derbyshire, England |
Deep reddish-brown Sphalerite xtls on Fluorite |
50p |
2 |
| 413 |
SPHALERITE - Old Millclose Mine, Matlock, Derbyshire, England |
Small dark brown to black Sphalerite xtls in cavities in sphalerite/fluorite matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 414 |
SPHALERITE - Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Cumberland, England |
Mass of sparkling black Sphalerite xtls on matrix |
£1.00 |
1 |
| 415 |
SPHALERITE - Unser Fritz Mine, Herne, N. Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
Deep brown Sphalerite xtls with Pyrite on calcite/dolomite matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 843 |
SPHALERITE & CALCITE - Judkins Quarry, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England |
Whitish scalenohedral Calcite xtls with spherical aggregates of small Sphalerite xtls |
£1.00 |
1 |
| 844 |
SPHENE - Mendig, Eifel, Germany
SOLD |
Small pale orange Sphene xtls in matrix |
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| 845 |
SPHENE - Scarisdale River, Loch na Keal, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland |
Very small tan coloured twinned Sphene xtls cavities in granite matrix +/- Epidote, Feldspar, Amphibole
Fluorite, Magnetite |
50p |
2 |
| 846 |
SPHENE & DIOPSIDE - Thurstaston Beach, Wirral, Cheshire, England
SOLD |
Very nice yellow Sphene xtls with deep green Diopside xtls in cavities in matrix |
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| 422 |
SPHENE & MAGNETITE - Thurstaston Beach, Wirral, Cheshire, England |
Black octahedral Magnetite xtls with yellow Sphene xtls in cavities in matrix |
£1.00 |
1 |
| 423 |
SPHENE, MAGNETITE & PYRITE - Thurstaston Beach, Wirral, Cheshire, England |
Yellow Sphene xtls, black Magnetite xtls and modified cubic Pyrite xtls in cavities in matrix |
£1.00 |
1 |
| 847 |
SPHENE & ZIRCON - Mendig, Eifel, Germany
SOLD |
Small orange Sphene xtls with creamy blocky Zircon xtl in different cavities in matrix |
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. |
| 427 |
STIBNITE - Hare Hill Mine, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
SOLD |
a "nest" of small grey acicular Stibnite xtls in cavity in quartz matrix |
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| 428 |
STIBNITE - Treore Mine, St. Endellion, Cornwall, England |
Silvery grey Stibnite shot through quartz matrix and spanning cavities |
50p £1.00 |
1 1 |
| 848 |
STIBNITE - Zlata Bana, Presov, N. Slanske Mountains, Slovakia |
Small radiating sprays of greyish-black Stibnite xtls in quartz matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 650 |
STIBNITE & STIBICONITE - Bwlch Mine, Deganwy, Caernarvonshire, Wales |
Silvery grey Stibnite with waxy yellowish Stibiconite on matrix |
50p |
2 |
| 849 |
STILBITE - Claughlands Point, Lamblash, Isle of Arran, Buteshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Sprays of small Stilbite xtls in cavities in granite matrix |
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| 430 |
STILBITE - Pancharevo Reservoir, Sofia, Bulgaria |
Small creamy coloured Stilbite xtls on matrix |
50p £1.00 |
1 2 |
| 850 |
STILBITE - Scarisdale River, Loch na Keal, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland
SOLD |
White to clear Stilbite xtls cavities in granite matrix +/- Amphibole |
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| 433 |
STILBITE & ANALCITE - Sgurr nam Fiadh, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Nice clear bladed Stilbite xtls on Analcite xtls on basalt matrix |
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| 436 |
STILBITE & HEULANDITE - Ard Dorch, Luib, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Colourless Stilbite xtls with colourless Heulandite xtl in cavities in granitic matrix |
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| 851a |
STRONTIANITE - Whitesmith Mine, Strontian, Argylllshire, Scotland |
Greenish-brown well terminated Strontianite xtls on calcite or barytes matrix |
£1.00 |
3 |
| 851b |
STRONTIANITE - Whitesmith Mine, Strontian, Argylllshire, Scotland |
Radiating pale brown acicular Strontianite xtls in barytes matrix |
£1.50p |
1 |
| 439 |
STRUNZITE - Blaton, Hainault, Belgium |
Small straw coloured acicular Strunzite xtls on matrix +/- Cacoxenite |
£1.00 |
1 |