Micromounts Q to S...........Updated 23 January 2015
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QUARTZ - HERKIMER DIAMOND - Ace of Diamonds, Herkimer, New York, USA |
Glass clear colourless "Herkimer Diamonds", no matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 523 |
QUARTZ - Cligga Head, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England |
Colourless Quartz xtls in cavities in cavities in partially kaolinised granite matrix +/- Adularia, Tourmaline,
Cassiterite |
50p |
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| 524 |
QUARTZ - ROCK CRYSTAL - Corinto, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Colourless elongated Quartz xtl, no matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 518 |
QUARTZ - Parma, Italy
SOLD |
Colourless Quartz xtl, no matrix |
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| 517 |
QUARTZ - Parma, Italy |
Colourless Quartz xtls with faint green "phantoms", no matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 521 |
QUARTZ - AGATE - Stara Paka, Jitschin, Bohemia, Czech Republic
SOLD |
Small unpolished Agate displaying internal banding |
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| 519 |
QUARTZ - Tambar Springs, NSW, Australia
SOLD |
Stalactitic growth of drusy Quartz xtls, no matrix |
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| 520 |
QUARTZ Pseudo after FLUORITE/PYRITE - Wheal Chance, Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall
England
SOLD |
Small white cube of Quartz pseudomorphing either Fluorite or Pyrite on quartz matrix |
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| 525 |
QUARTZ & ADULARIA - Cligga Head, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England
SOLD |
Colourless Quartz xtls with creamy coloured Adularia xtls in cavities in partially kaolinised granite matrix |
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| 526 |
QUARTZ, BARYTES & FLUORITE - Jug Holes Mine, Matlock, Derbyshire, England
SOLD |
Small colourless Quartz xtls coating deep purple cubic Fluorite xtls and white Barytes xtls on matrix |
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| 527 |
QUARTZ & SIDERITE - Biberg, Salfelden, Salzburg, Austria
SOLD |
Pale brown rhombic Siderite with colourless Quartz xtls |
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| 528 |
QUARTZ & SPHENE - Bortelhorn, Steinu Valley, Brig, Wallis, Switzerland
SOLD |
Large colourless Quartz xtl with a pale brown Sphene embedded in its side |
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| 529 |
RAMSBECKITE - Waterbank Mine, Ecton Hill, Staffordshire, England
SOLD |
Small dark green Ramsbeckite xtls making up part of the crust on the matrix |
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| 530 |
RAMSBECKITE & SCHULENBERGITE - Penrhiw Mine, Ystumtuen, Cardiganshire, Wales
SOLD |
Small dark green Ramsbeckite xtls and bluish-green Schulenbergite xtls on gossan matrix |
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| 532 |
RANKACHITE - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany
SOLD |
Sprays of dark brown acicular Rankachite xtls in matrix |
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| 533 |
RANKACHITE & PYRITE - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany
SOLD |
Sprays of dark brown acicular Rankachite xtls and small cubic Pyrite xtls in matrix |
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| 534 |
RHABDOPHANE-Ce - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany |
Minute to small white spheres of Rhabdophane-Ce in quartz matrix |
£1.00 £1.50p |
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| 535 |
RHONITE - Nickenicher, Eifel, Germany
SOLD |
Small deep red Rhonite xtls in cavities in matrix |
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| 536 |
ROEDDERITE - Emmelberg, Udersdorf, Eifel, Germany
SOLD |
Small colourless to very pale yellow hexagonal Roedderite xtls in matrix |
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| 537 |
ROSASITE & CUPRO-ADAMITE - Kamariza Mine, Laurion, Greece
SOLD |
Dark bluish-green Rosasite spheres with small light green Cupro-Adamite xtls in gossan matrix |
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| 538 |
ROSASITE & SMITHSONITE - Silver Hill Mine, Pima Co., Arizona, USA
SOLD |
Blue Rosasite spheres in gossan matrix with some white Smithsonite |
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| 539 |
ROSELITE - Aghbar Mine, Bou Azzer, Morocco
SOLD |
Small deep pink Roselite xtls on matrix |
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| 540 |
ROSENBUSCHITE - Norra Karr, Ostergotsland, Sweden
SOLD |
Pale brown blades of Rosenbuschite embedded in matrix |
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| 541 |
SABINAITE - Poudrette Quarry, Mont Ste. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
SOLD |
Very pale yellow Sabinaite xtls on matrix |
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| 542 |
SARABAUITE - Kuchin, Sarawak, Malaysia
SOLD |
Orangy-red massive Sarabauite in matrix |
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| 543 |
SARTORITE - Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Wallis, Switzerland
SOLD |
Bright silvery Sartorite xtl in a cavity in matrix |
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| 544 |
SCHEELITE - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany
SOLD |
Small orange octahedral Scheelite xtl on matrix, fluoresces white |
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| 545 |
SCHEELITE - Shap Granite Quarry, Shap, Westmorland, England
SOLD |
Pale yellow octahedral Scheelite xtl in pegmatite matrix plus Anatase and Fluorite |
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| 546 |
SCHULENBERGITE - Dylife Mine, Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, Wales
SOLD |
Tiny sky blue hexagonal platy Schulenbergite xtls in cavities in quartz/chalcopyrite matrix |
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| 547 |
SCHWARTZEMBERGITE - Poderosa Mine, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Region, Chile
SOLD |
Small orange tabular Schwartzenbergite xtls in cavities in matrix +/- Boleite/Cumengeite |
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| 548 |
SCORODITE - Cligga Cove, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England
SOLD |
Greyish-blue drusy botryoidal Scorodite lining cavities in quartz matrix |
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| 549 |
SCORODITE - Hemerdon Bal Mine, Plynpton, Devon, England
SOLD |
Drusy aggregate of greyish-blue Scorodite xtls in cavity in quartz matrix |
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| 550 |
SCORODITE - Hingston Down Quarry, Calstock, Cornwall, England |
Greyish-blue drusy botryoidal Scorodite with some small cubic Pharmacosiderite xtls in cavity in quartz matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 551 |
SCORODITE - Roselidden Mine, Wendron, Cornwall, England |
Drusy greyish Scorodite xtls in quartz matrix +/- Pharmacosiderite |
50p £1.00 |
1 1 |
| 552 |
SCORODITE - Wheal Ellen, Portreath, Cornwall, England |
Pale greyish-blue crusts and spheres of minute drusy Scorodite xtls on matrix |
£1.00 £1.50p |
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| 553 |
SCORODITE - Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall, England |
Drusy greyish botryoidal Scorodite in cavities in gossan matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 554 |
SCORODITE & CARMINITE - Deer Hills, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England |
Thin crust of minute grey Scorodite xtls with minute red Carminite xtls on matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 555 |
SCORODITE & PHARMACOSIDERITE - Hemerdon Bal Mine, Plympton, Devon |
Greyish-blue Scorodite xtls with orange cubic Pharmacosiderite xtls in a cavity in quartz matrix |
£1.50p |
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| 556 |
SELENITE - Wheal Trelawney, Menheniot, Cornwall, England |
Small colourless Selenite xtls on quartz in quartz/fluorite matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 557 |
SERPIERITE & AURICHALCITE - Waterbank Mine, Ecton Hill, Staffordshire, England |
Sprays of small sky-blue acicular Serpierite xtls with lighter greenish-blue Aurichalcite in cavities in
gossan matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 558 |
SERPIERITE, BARYTES & SCHULENBERGITE - Waterbank Mine, Ecton Hill, Staffordshire, England
SOLD |
Aggregates of small sky-blue acicular Serpierite xtls with white bladed Barytes xtls and bluish-green Schulenbergite
on barytes matrix |
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| 559 |
SERPIERITE & LINARITE - Waterbank Mine, Ecton Hill, Staffordshire, England |
Sky-blue Serpierite and dark blue Linarite xtls on matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 560 |
SIDERITE - Force Crag Mine, Coledale, Cumberland, England |
Pale brown, curved Siderite xtls on matrix |
50p |
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| 561 |
SIDERITE - Restormel Iron Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England |
Brown Siderite xtls on quartz or goethite matrix |
50p £1.00 |
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| 562 |
SIDERITE - St. Austell Consols, St. Austell, Cornwall, England |
Pale to dark brown rounded Siderite xtls in cavities in quartz/CoNi ores matrix |
50p |
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| 563 |
SIDERITE - St. Ives Consols, St. Ives, Cornwall, England |
Small light to dark brown hexagonal tabular Siderite xtls in cavities in quartz matrix |
50p £1.00 |
1 3 |
| 564 |
SIDERITE - Sidestrand Beach, Sidestrand, Norfolk, England |
Tiny dark brown Siderite xtls in quartz cavity in a flint nodule +/- clear tabular Barytes xtls |
50p |
1 |
| 565 |
SIDERITE - South Wheal Basset, Redruth, Cornwall, England |
Small brown spiky Siderite xtls in cavity in matrix |
£1.00 |
1 |
| 567 |
SIDERITE - Wheal Edward, St. Just, Cornwall, England |
Sharp brown rhombohedral Siderite xtls in cavities in matrix +/- Chalcocite, Malachite |
50p £1.00 £1.50p |
5 4 1 |
| 568 |
SIDERITE - Wheal Josiah, Devon Great Consols, Tavistock Hamlets, Devon, England |
Small dark brown rhombohedral Siderite xtls in cavities in cellular Siderite matrix +/- colourless Apatite-CAF |
£1.00 |
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| 569 |
SIDERITE & MALACHITE - Wheal Edward, St. Just, Cornwall, England |
Sharp brown rhombohedral Siderite xtls with patches of velvety green Malachite in cavities in matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 570 |
SILVER - New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicestershire, England |
Very thin flakes of Silver on matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 571 |
SKUTTERUDITE - St. Austell Consols, St. Austell, Cornwall, England |
Very bright silvery Skutterudite with the occaisional xtl face embedded in quartz/siderite matrix +/- Erythrite,
Niccolite, Clinosafflorite |
50p |
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| 572 |
SMITHSONITE - Kamariza Mine, Laurion, Greece |
Whitish to pale blue Smithsonite xtls in cavities in gossan matrix |
50p |
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| 573 |
SMITHSONITE - Kintore Opencut, South Mine, Broken Hill NSW, Australia |
Greyish Smithsonite xtls on black botryoidal Hollandite matrix |
£1.00 |
1 |
| 574 |
SMITHSONITE - Milldam Mine, Great Hucklow, Derbyshire, England |
Brown waxy looking Smithsonite on dark purple Fluorite in cavity in matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 575 |
SMITHSONITE - Old Millclose Mine, Matlock, Derbyshire, England
SOLD |
Rounded pale brown Smithsonite xtls on sphalerite rich matrix |
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| 576 |
SMITHSONITE - Reddycomb Mine, Harwood, Middleton-in-Teesdale, North Yorkshire, England |
Grey rounded Smithsonite xtls in gossan matrix |
50p |
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| 577 |
SMITHSONITE - Rhosesmor Mine, Halkyn Mountain, Flintshire, Wales |
Brownish cellular mass of rounded Smithsonite xtls, no matrix, really nice |
£1.00 |
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| 578 |
SMITHSONITE - Stang Mine, Barnard Castle, North Yorkshire, England |
Small pale brown Smithsonite xtls in cavities in matrix |
50p £1.00 |
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| 579 |
SMITHSONITE Epimorph after CALCITE - Wetgrooves Mine, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, England
SOLD |
Pale brown botryoidal Smithsonite forming epimorphs after Calcite on matrix |
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| 580 |
SMITHSONITE & AURICHALCITE - Waterbank Mine, Ecton Hill, Staffordshire, England |
Tiny brown rhombohedral Siderite xtls with light greenish-blue Aurichalcite xtls in cavity in Sphalerite
gossan matrix |
50p £1.00 |
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| 581 |
SMITHSONITE & AURICHALCITE - Zorzone Mine, Vedra valley, Bergamo, Italy
SOLD |
Small light grey Smithsoniteb xtls lining cavities in matrix with some pale blue Aurichalcite |
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| 582 |
SMITHSONITE & FLUORITE - Milldam Mine, Great Hucklow, Derbyshire, England |
Small creamy to orangy-brown coloured globular Smithsonite with colourless to purple Fluorite xtls in cavities
in matrix |
50p £1.00 |
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| 583 |
SPECULAR HAEMATITE - Wheal Cock, St.Just, Cornwall, England |
Shiny, black, thin hexagonal to rounded plates of Specular Haematite on quartz matrix |
50p £1.00 |
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| 584 |
SPHALERITE - Callow Hill Quarry, Minsterley, Shropshire, England |
Bright sparkling yellow Sphalerite xtls in cavities in Sphalerite/quartz matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 585 |
SPHALERITE - Cloud Hill Quarry, Worthington, Leicestershire, England |
Small black Sphalerite xtls on matrix +/- Barytes, Pyrite |
£1.00 |
1 |
| 586 |
SPHALERITE - Frazers Hush Mine, Rookhope, Co. Durham, England |
Shiny black Sphalerite xtls in cavities in quartz/sphalerite matrix |
£1.50p |
1 |
| 587 |
SPHALERITE - Frosterley Quarry, Weardale, Co Durham, England |
Black to sherry coloured Sphalerite xtls in cavities in matrix +/- Quartz, Ankerite |
50p £1.00 |
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| 588 |
SPHALERITE - Massa Carrera, Tuscany, Italy
SOLD |
Small single orange-brown tetrahedral Sphalerite xtl on calcite matrix |
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| 590 |
SPHALERITE - Silverbrook Mine, Ilsington, Devon, England
SOLD |
Small specimen, black composite Sphalerite xtl on white Dolomite xtls |
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| 589 |
SPHALERITE - Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Cumberland, England |
Shiny black Sphalerite xtls on matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 591 |
SPHALERITE - Tolvaddon Mine, Marazion, Cornwall, England |
Tiny pale-brown Sphalerite xtls encrusting weathered botryoidal Sphalerite in gossan matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 592 |
SPHALERITE - Vrancice Mine, Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
SOLD |
Black to brown Sphalerite xtls on quartz matrix |
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| 593 |
SPHALERITE variety CLEIOPHANE - September Mine, Madan, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria
SOLD |
Pale greenish Cleiophane xtls in cavities in quartz matrix |
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| 594 |
SPHALERITE, BARYTES & CALCITE - Orchard Mine, Bradwell, Derbyshire, England |
Shiny black Sphalerite xtls with white Barytes xtls and clear Calcite xtls in a cavity in matrix |
£1.50p |
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| 595 |
SPHALERITE, BARYTES, FLUORITE & CHALCOPYRITE - Orchard Mine, Bradwell, Derbyshire, England |
Shiny black Sphalerite xtls with white Barytes xtls, clear Fluorite xtls and bronzy coloured Chalcopyrite xtls
in cavities in matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 597 |
SPHALERITE & DOLOMITE - Silverbrook Mine, Ilsington, Devon, England |
Black to sherry coloured Sphalerite xtls with white rhombohedral Dolomite xtls in cavities in matrix +/- Pyrite,
Calcite, Hydrozincite |
50p £1.00 |
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| 598 |
SPHALERITE & FLUORITE - Fall Hill Quarry, Ashover, Derbyshire, England |
Dark sherry coloured Sphalerite xtls on colourless Fluorite xtls on matrix |
£1.00 £1.50p |
1 1 |
| 600 |
SPHALERITE & FLUORITE - Milltown Quarry, Ashover, Derbyshire, England |
Dark sherry coloured Sphalerite xtls on colourless Fluorite xtls on matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 601 |
SPHALERITE, FLUORITE & BARYTES - Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire, England |
Deep purple Fluorite xtls with sherry coloured Sphalerite xtls with with a small roseatte of thin tabular
orange Barytes xtls on matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 602 |
SPHALERITE, FLUORITE, SMITHSONITE & GREENOCKITE - Milltown Quarry, Ashover, Derbyshire, England |
Dark sherry coloured Sphalerite xtls with Fluorite xtls, whitish Smithsonite xtls and yellowish Greenockite
on matrix |
£1.50p |
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| 603 |
SPHENE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Small pale green multiple twinned Sphene xtls in cavities in matrix |
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| 604 |
SPHENE & ALBITE - Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway |
Pale brown Sphene xtls and small creamy to colourless Albite xtls in gas cavities in matrix |
£1.00 £1.50p |
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| 605 |
SPHENE & ANATASE - Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway |
Pale brown Sphene xtls and shiny black bipyramidal Anatase xtls in gas cavities in matrix |
£1.50p |
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| 606 |
SPHENE, ANATASE, ALBITE & PARISITE-Ce - Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway |
Pale brown Sphene xtls with shiny black bipyramidal Anatase xtls and small creamy to colourless Albite xtls
and pale brown hexagonal Parisite-Ce xtls in gas cavities in matrix |
£1.50p £2.50p |
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| 607 |
SPHENE & APATITE - Allens Shaft, Botallack Mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England |
Creamy coloured bladed Sphene xtls with white Apatite in tourmaline matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 608 |
SPINEL - Carneal Plug, Glenoe, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland |
Tiny black octahedral Spinel xtls in matrix |
50p |
4 |
| 609 |
SPINEL & OLIVINE - Vesuvius, Naples, Italy |
Small black octahedral Spinel xtls with greenish Olivine in matrix |
£1.00p |
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| 610 |
SPIROFFITE - La Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
SOLD |
Beige coloured Spiroffite in matrix |
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| 611 |
STAUROLITE - Fanning Co., Georgia, USA |
Dark brown, single doubly terminated Staurolite xtls to 30mm, no matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 612 |
STELLERITE & CALCITE - Czak Hill, Szob, Pest Co., Hungary
SOLD |
Small colourless Stellerite xtls with creamy Calcite xtls in matrix |
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| 613 |
STILBITE - Biod a Mhurain, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland |
Crust of small white Stilbite xtls on basalt matrix |
50p |
1 |
| 614 |
STILBITE - Bracadale, Loch Harport, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland |
Small whitish flat topped Stilbite xtls in cavities in matrix |
50p |
4 |
| 615 |
STRACKZEKITE - Wilson Springs, Garland Co., Arkansas, USA
SOLD |
Aggregates of small black acicular Strackzekite xtls in matrix |
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| 617 |
STRONTIANITE - Castlebar (Moneen) Quarry, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland |
Sprays of clear spiky Strontianite xtls in cavities in Calcite on limestone matrix |
50p £1.00 |
5 2 |
| 618 |
STRONTIANITE - Penarth Beach, Swansea, South Glamorgan, Wales |
Sprays of small white spiky Strontianite xtls covering Calcite xtls in cavity in matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 619 |
STRONTIANITE - Trearn Quarry, Gateside, Beith, Ayrshire
SOLD |
Crusts of small white acicular Strontianite xtls on calcite in matrix |
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| 620 |
STRONTIANITE, COELESTINE & CALCITE - Meckly Quarry, Mendata, Pennsylvania, USA
SOLD |
Sprays of small white acicular Strontianite xtls on bluish Coelestine xtls in a colourless Calcite lined
cavity in matrix |
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| 621 |
SULPHUR - Cnwch-y-Bedw, Maellen Mountain, Carmarthenshire, Wales
SOLD |
Tiny pale yellow globular Sulphur xtls in a cavity in decomposed galena in quartz matrix |
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| 622 |
SULPHUR - Le Cetine Mine, Siena, Italy
SOLD |
Pale yellow Sulphur xtls in a cavity in matrix |
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| 623 |
SULPHUR - Sheefry Mine, Cuilmore, Co. Mayo, Ireland |
Patches of tiny pale yellowish-green Sulphur xtls on galena/chalcopyrite matrix |
50p |
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| 624 |
SULPHUR & ARSENOPYRITE - Hingston Down Consols, Calstock, Cornwall, England |
Tiny globular Sulphur xtls in cavities in corroded Arsenopyrite xtls in matrix |
£1.00 |
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| 625 |
SUSANNITE - Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England
SOLD |
Pale blue xtalline Susannite with yellow powdery Bindheimite in a cavity in quartz matrix |
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| 626 |
SYNCHISITE-Ce - Cuasso al Monte, Varese, Italy
SOLD |
Tiny roseattes of minute red Synchisite-Ce xtls in a cavity in granite matrix plus some colourless Fluorite |
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