Micromounts Q to S...........Updated 23 January 2015
522 QUARTZ - HERKIMER DIAMOND - Ace of Diamonds, Herkimer, New York, USA Glass clear colourless "Herkimer Diamonds", no matrix £1.00 2
523 QUARTZ - Cligga Head, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England Colourless Quartz xtls in cavities in cavities in partially kaolinised granite matrix +/- Adularia, Tourmaline, Cassiterite 50p 2
524 QUARTZ - ROCK CRYSTAL - Corinto, Minas Gerais, Brazil Colourless elongated Quartz xtl, no matrix £1.00 1
518 QUARTZ - Parma, Italy SOLD Colourless Quartz xtl, no matrix . .
517 QUARTZ - Parma, Italy Colourless Quartz xtls with faint green "phantoms", no matrix £1.00 1
521 QUARTZ - AGATE - Stara Paka, Jitschin, Bohemia, Czech Republic SOLD Small unpolished Agate displaying internal banding . .
519 QUARTZ - Tambar Springs, NSW, Australia SOLD Stalactitic growth of drusy Quartz xtls, no matrix . .
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 . .
525 QUARTZ & ADULARIA - Cligga Head, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England SOLD Colourless Quartz xtls with creamy coloured Adularia xtls in cavities in partially kaolinised granite matrix . .
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 . .
527 QUARTZ & SIDERITE - Biberg, Salfelden, Salzburg, Austria SOLD Pale brown rhombic Siderite with colourless Quartz xtls . .
528 QUARTZ & SPHENE - Bortelhorn, Steinu Valley, Brig, Wallis, Switzerland SOLD Large colourless Quartz xtl with a pale brown Sphene embedded in its side . .
529 RAMSBECKITE - Waterbank Mine, Ecton Hill, Staffordshire, England SOLD Small dark green Ramsbeckite xtls making up part of the crust on the matrix . .
530 RAMSBECKITE & SCHULENBERGITE - Penrhiw Mine, Ystumtuen, Cardiganshire, Wales SOLD Small dark green Ramsbeckite xtls and bluish-green Schulenbergite xtls on gossan matrix . .
532 RANKACHITE - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany SOLD Sprays of dark brown acicular Rankachite xtls in matrix . .
533 RANKACHITE & PYRITE - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany SOLD Sprays of dark brown acicular Rankachite xtls and small cubic Pyrite xtls in matrix . .
534 RHABDOPHANE-Ce - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany Minute to small white spheres of Rhabdophane-Ce in quartz matrix £1.00 £1.50p 1 1
535 RHONITE - Nickenicher, Eifel, Germany SOLD Small deep red Rhonite xtls in cavities in matrix . .
536 ROEDDERITE - Emmelberg, Udersdorf, Eifel, Germany SOLD Small colourless to very pale yellow hexagonal Roedderite xtls in matrix . .
537 ROSASITE & CUPRO-ADAMITE - Kamariza Mine, Laurion, Greece SOLD Dark bluish-green Rosasite spheres with small light green Cupro-Adamite xtls in gossan matrix . .
538 ROSASITE & SMITHSONITE - Silver Hill Mine, Pima Co., Arizona, USA SOLD Blue Rosasite spheres in gossan matrix with some white Smithsonite . .
539 ROSELITE - Aghbar Mine, Bou Azzer, Morocco SOLD Small deep pink Roselite xtls on matrix . .
540 ROSENBUSCHITE - Norra Karr, Ostergotsland, Sweden SOLD Pale brown blades of Rosenbuschite embedded in matrix . .
541 SABINAITE - Poudrette Quarry, Mont Ste. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada SOLD Very pale yellow Sabinaite xtls on matrix . .
542 SARABAUITE - Kuchin, Sarawak, Malaysia SOLD Orangy-red massive Sarabauite in matrix . .
543 SARTORITE - Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Wallis, Switzerland SOLD Bright silvery Sartorite xtl in a cavity in matrix . .
544 SCHEELITE - Clara Mine, Wolfach, Black Forest, Germany SOLD Small orange octahedral Scheelite xtl on matrix, fluoresces white . .
545 SCHEELITE - Shap Granite Quarry, Shap, Westmorland, England SOLD Pale yellow octahedral Scheelite xtl in pegmatite matrix plus Anatase and Fluorite . .
546 SCHULENBERGITE - Dylife Mine, Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, Wales SOLD Tiny sky blue hexagonal platy Schulenbergite xtls in cavities in quartz/chalcopyrite matrix . .
547 SCHWARTZEMBERGITE - Poderosa Mine, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Region, Chile SOLD Small orange tabular Schwartzenbergite xtls in cavities in matrix +/- Boleite/Cumengeite . .
548 SCORODITE - Cligga Cove, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England SOLD Greyish-blue drusy botryoidal Scorodite lining cavities in quartz matrix . .
549 SCORODITE - Hemerdon Bal Mine, Plynpton, Devon, England SOLD Drusy aggregate of greyish-blue Scorodite xtls in cavity in quartz matrix . .
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 1
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 8 6
553 SCORODITE - Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall, England Drusy greyish botryoidal Scorodite in cavities in gossan matrix £1.00 2
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 1
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 1
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 1
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 . .
559 SERPIERITE & LINARITE - Waterbank Mine, Ecton Hill, Staffordshire, England Sky-blue Serpierite and dark blue Linarite xtls on matrix £1.00 1
560 SIDERITE - Force Crag Mine, Coledale, Cumberland, England Pale brown, curved Siderite xtls on matrix 50p 3
561 SIDERITE - Restormel Iron Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England Brown Siderite xtls on quartz or goethite matrix 50p £1.00 2 1
562 SIDERITE - St. Austell Consols, St. Austell, Cornwall, England Pale to dark brown rounded Siderite xtls in cavities in quartz/CoNi ores matrix 50p 6
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 3
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 3
570 SILVER - New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicestershire, England Very thin flakes of Silver on matrix £1.00 1
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 1
572 SMITHSONITE - Kamariza Mine, Laurion, Greece Whitish to pale blue Smithsonite xtls in cavities in gossan matrix 50p 6
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 . .
576 SMITHSONITE - Reddycomb Mine, Harwood, Middleton-in-Teesdale, North Yorkshire, England Grey rounded Smithsonite xtls in gossan matrix 50p 1
577 SMITHSONITE - Rhosesmor Mine, Halkyn Mountain, Flintshire, Wales Brownish cellular mass of rounded Smithsonite xtls, no matrix, really nice £1.00 1
578 SMITHSONITE - Stang Mine, Barnard Castle, North Yorkshire, England Small pale brown Smithsonite xtls in cavities in matrix 50p £1.00 2 1
579 SMITHSONITE Epimorph after CALCITE - Wetgrooves Mine, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, England SOLD Pale brown botryoidal Smithsonite forming epimorphs after Calcite on matrix . .
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 3 2
581 SMITHSONITE & AURICHALCITE - Zorzone Mine, Vedra valley, Bergamo, Italy SOLD Small light grey Smithsoniteb xtls lining cavities in matrix with some pale blue Aurichalcite . .
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 1 5
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 4 2
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 1 1
588 SPHALERITE - Massa Carrera, Tuscany, Italy SOLD Small single orange-brown tetrahedral Sphalerite xtl on calcite matrix . .
590 SPHALERITE - Silverbrook Mine, Ilsington, Devon, England SOLD Small specimen, black composite Sphalerite xtl on white Dolomite xtls . .
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 3
592 SPHALERITE - Vrancice Mine, Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic SOLD Black to brown Sphalerite xtls on quartz matrix . .
593 SPHALERITE variety CLEIOPHANE - September Mine, Madan, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria SOLD Pale greenish Cleiophane xtls in cavities in quartz matrix . .
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 1
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 1
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 9 3
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 1
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 1
603 SPHENE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland SOLD Small pale green multiple twinned Sphene xtls in cavities in matrix . .
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 4 2
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 1
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 1 1
607 SPHENE & APATITE - Allens Shaft, Botallack Mine, St. Just, Cornwall, England Creamy coloured bladed Sphene xtls with white Apatite in tourmaline matrix £1.00 1
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 1
610 SPIROFFITE - La Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico SOLD Beige coloured Spiroffite in matrix . .
611 STAUROLITE - Fanning Co., Georgia, USA Dark brown, single doubly terminated Staurolite xtls to 30mm, no matrix £1.00 2
612 STELLERITE & CALCITE - Czak Hill, Szob, Pest Co., Hungary SOLD Small colourless Stellerite xtls with creamy Calcite xtls in matrix . .
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 . .
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 1
619 STRONTIANITE - Trearn Quarry, Gateside, Beith, Ayrshire SOLD Crusts of small white acicular Strontianite xtls on calcite in matrix . .
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 . .
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 . .
622 SULPHUR - Le Cetine Mine, Siena, Italy SOLD Pale yellow Sulphur xtls in a cavity in matrix . .
623 SULPHUR - Sheefry Mine, Cuilmore, Co. Mayo, Ireland Patches of tiny pale yellowish-green Sulphur xtls on galena/chalcopyrite matrix 50p 5
624 SULPHUR & ARSENOPYRITE - Hingston Down Consols, Calstock, Cornwall, England Tiny globular Sulphur xtls in cavities in corroded Arsenopyrite xtls in matrix £1.00 3
625 SUSANNITE - Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England SOLD Pale blue xtalline Susannite with yellow powdery Bindheimite in a cavity in quartz matrix . .
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 . .