Minerals from Smelters...................Updated 18 February 2012
| 1266 |
ARAGONITE - Plombieres, Belgium
SOLD |
Sprays of small white acicular Aragonite xtls in cavity in smelter slag |
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| 1267 |
ATACAMITE - Madonna Fulcinaia, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
SOLD |
Tiny dark green Atacamite xtls in cavity in smelter slag |
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| 481 |
CHROMITE - Refractories Deposit, Montignies-sur-Sambre, Belgium |
Small shiny black octahedral Chromite xtls on surface of slag matrix |
£1.00 |
1 |
| 1268 |
CONNELLITE - Madonna Fulcinaia, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
SOLD |
Tiny blue acicular Connellite xtls in cavities in smelter slag |
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| 864 |
CONNELLITE - Stoneycroft Smelter, Braithwaite, Cumberland, England |
Tiny spheres of minute blue Connellite xtls in cavities in smelter slag +/-Malachite, Spangolite |
£1.00 |
5 |
| 1269 |
COPPER - Champion Smelter, Champion Mine, Nelson, New Zealand
SOLD |
Small Copper wires in cavity in smelter slag |
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| 866 |
COPPER - Stoneycroft Smelter, Braithwaite, Cumberland, England |
Small pieces of metallic Copper embedded in smelter slag |
50p |
3 |
| 1270 |
ELYITE - Haltcliffe Smelter, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England
SOLD |
Very pale mauve areas of minute Elyite xtls on smelter slag. Not easy to see |
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| 1271 |
PHOSGENITE - Legraina, Laurion, Greece
SOLD |
Colourless Phosgenite xtls in cavities in smelter slag |
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| 1272 |
PHOSGENITE & CERUSSITE - Legraina, Laurion, Greece
SOLD |
Colourless Phosgenite xtls with white Cerussite xtls in cavities in smelter slag |
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Meadowfoot Smelter, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland..........Updated 12 February 2012
| ANGLESITE |
Typically small colourless blocky elongated xtls |
| ARAGONITE |
Typically clusters or botryoidal masses of white acicular xtls |
| BROCHANTITE |
Typically crusts of dark green xtls or less commonly thin bladed elongated xtls |
| CALEDONITE |
Typically crusts tiny of sky blue xtls or sprays of acicular xtls |
| CERUSSITE |
Typically small colourless blocky xtls often twinned |
| CUPRITE |
Typically tiny red acicular xtls |
| DEVILLINE |
Typically bluish-green thin bladed xtls |
| ELYITE |
Typically tiny mauve acicular xtls |
| LANARKITE |
Typically sprays of small colourless or white acicular xtls, usually in the metallic slag |
| LANGITE |
Typically small blue hexagonal xtls, often pseudomorphed by green Brochantite |
| LAUTENTHALITE |
Typically small dark green bladed xtls usually with Wroewolfeite or Langite |
| LEADHILLITE |
Typically small very thin colourless hexagonal plates |
| LINARITE |
Typically small dark blue sprays and clusters |
| LITHARGE |
Typically small red globules |
| PARALAURIONITE |
Typically small very thin colourless blades in metallic slag |
| PLATTNERITE |
Typically small black acicular needles in metallic slag |
| SELENITE |
Typically small colourless xtls |
| SERPIERITE |
Typically small sky -blue feathery aggregates of acicular xtls |
| WROEWOLFEITE |
Typically small dark blue bladed or acicular xtls |
The specimens
| 1273 |
ANGLESITESOLD |
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| 1274 |
ANGLESITE & LINARITESOLD |
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| 1275 |
BROCHANTITE |
50p |
1 |
| 1276 |
BROCHANTITE & ARAGONITESOLD |
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| 1277 |
BROCHANTITE & DEVILLINESOLD |
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| 1278 |
CALEDONITESOLD |
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| 1279 |
CALEDONITE & ANGLESITESOLD |
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| 1280 |
CALEDONITE, ANGLESITE & SERPIERITESOLD |
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| 1281 |
CALEDONITE & SERPIERITESOLD |
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| 1282 |
CUPRITESOLD |
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| 1283 |
DEVILLINESOLD |
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| 1284 |
LANARKITE |
50p |
1 |
| 1285 |
LANGITE, LINARITE & LEADHILLITESOLD |
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| 1286 |
LEADHILLITESOLD |
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| 1287 |
LEADHILLITE & SERPIERITESOLD |
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| 1288 |
LINARITE, ANGLESITE, LANGITE & CALEDONITESOLD |
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| 1289 |
LINARITE & BROCHANTITESOLD |
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| 1290 |
LINARITE & LANARKITESOLD |
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| 1291 |
LINARITE, LANGITE & DEVILLINESOLD |
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| 1292 |
LINARITE, LANGITE, LEADHILLITE, ELYITE & PLATTNERITESOLD |
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| 1293 |
LINARITE & SERPIERITESOLD |
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| 1294 |
LITHARGESOLD |
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| 1295 |
PARALAURIONITE & LANARKITESOLD |
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| 1296 |
PARALAURIONITE, LANARKITE, LINARITE, ANGLESITE, LEADHILLITE, SERPIERITE & BROCHANTITE
SOLD |
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| 1297 |
SELENITESOLD |
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| 1298 |
SERPIERITE, LANGITE & LANARKITE
SOLD |
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| 1299 |
WROEWOLFEITE, LANGITE, SERPIERITE, LINARITE & LAUTENTHALITE
SOLD |
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| 1300 |
LINARITE & BROCHANTITETHUMBNAIL |
£2.00 |
1 |