Bargain Basement..................Updated 20 September 2025Cornwall & Devon
BB17 ARSENOPYRITE - Penlee Quarry, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, England Shiny grey Arsenopyrite xtls in Arsenopyrite/chlorite matrix 25p 1
BB23 BIOTITE - Lithium rich - Trelavour Downs, St. Dennis, Cornwall, England Flakes of dark bronzy brown Biotite mica, no matrix except one on a little quartz. Locally known as "Trelavourite" 25p 2
BB43 CASSITERITE - Roselidden Mine, Wendron, Cornwall, England Dark brown sparable Cassiterite crystals in cavities in quartz matrix +/- Quartz, Muscovite SOLD .
BB1110 CASSITERITE - "WOOD TIN" - Trevaunance Cove, St. Agnes, Cornwall, England Small brown "rings" of and spheres of Cassiterite - Wood Tin in part of a beach pebble SOLD .
BB85 PHARMACOSIDERITE - Cathedral Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, England Small pale green or brown cubic Pharmacosiderite crystals in cavities in gossan matrix 25p 1
BB99 SCORODITE - Roselidden Mine, Wendron, Cornwall, England Small drusy greyish Scorodite spheres in cavities in quartz matrix SOLD .
Cumberland & Westmorland
BB133 CALCITE - Lindal Moor Mine, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria (formerly Lancashire), England Whitish rhombohedral Calcite crystals lining cavities in gossan matrix +\- a little black feathery Pyrolusite 25p 2
Rest of England
BB213 SIDERITE - Sidestrand Beach, Sidestrand, Norfolk, England Tiny brown rhombohedral Siderite crystals in cavities in flint nodules 25p 1
Wales
BB236 HEMIMORPHITE - Machen Quarry, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Wales Sprays of clear to pale brown Hemimorphite crystals on matrix +/- white Hydrozincite 25p 1
Scotland
BB254 AMPHIBOLE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland Very thin green acicular Amphibole needles lining cavities in matrix 25p 3
BB256 ANALCITE - Bracadale, Loch Beag, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland Whitish to colourless Analcite crystals in cavities and on basalt matrix 25p 1
BB259 ANALCITE - Road Cutting, Glen Eynort, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland Colourless to white Analcite crystals lining cavities in basalt matrix 25p 4
Ireland North and South
. None currently available . . .
Africa
BB398 MOTTRAMITE - Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto, Namibia Stalactitic/dendritic olive-green Mottramite, no matrix 25p 1
BB406 RHODIZITE/LONDONITE - Ibity, Antsirabe, Madagascar Single pale yellow dodecahedral Rhodizite/Londonite crystals, no matrix 25p 1
Americas North & South including Greenland including Turkey
BB550 SHORTITE - Green River Formation, Sweetwater, Wyoming, USA Clear oddly shaped, (sort of triangular) Shortite crystals embedded and protruding from Neotocite matri SOLD .
BB585 WULFENITE - Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico Brown tabular Wulfenite crystals in gossan matrix 25p 3
Asia and Australasia
BB610 COPPER & CUPRITE - Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia Bits of Copper and Cuprite protruding from a jaspery matrix +/- Malachite 25p 5
BB644 MALACHITE - Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia Green acicular to small dark blocky Malachite crystals in cavities in quartz matrix +/- some cuprite SOLD .
BB646 MALACHITE & CUPRITE - Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia Green acicular to small dark blocky Malachite crystals with massive Cuprite in cavities in quartz/jasper matrix 25p 1
BB647 MALACHITE, CUPRITE & QUARTZ - Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia Green acicular to small dark blocky Malachite crystals with massive Cuprite and small Quartz crystals in cavities in quartz/jasper matrix SOLD .
BB659 PREHNITE - Kandivali Quarry, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Aggregate of whitish platy Prehnite crystals, no matrix 25p 1
BB661 PSEUDOMALACHITE - Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia Rounded aggregates of minute green Pseudomalachite crystals on gossan matrix SOLD .
Europe excluding Turkey
BB686 ADAMITE - Hilarion Mine, Lavrion, Greece Very pale yellow to pale green glassy Adamite crystals in cavities in gossan matrix SOLD .
691 ADAMITE-Ni & CALCITE - KM3, Lavrion, Greece Distinctive green Adamite-Ni crystals scattered amongst scalenohedral Calcite crystals in cavities in gossan matrix 25p 3
707 ARSENIOPLEITE - Sjogruvan Mine, Grythyttan, Vastmanland, Sweden Orange brown Arseniopleite shot through matrix SOLD .
BB708 ARSENIOPLEITE - Varenche Mine, St. Barthelemy, Nus, Aosta Valley, Italy Patches of orange-brown Arsenopleite embedded in matrix 25p 1
BB780 DOLOMITE var. TERUELITE - Teruel, Aragon, Spain Dark grey rhombic Teruelite crystals embedded in matrix 25p 1
BB854 OLIVENITE - Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Black Forest, Germany Green Olivenite crystals in various forms in quartz/barytes matrix SOLD .
BB866 PHILLIPSITE - Stradner Kogel, Wilhelmsdorf, Styria, Austria Tiny drusy Phillipsite crystals on matrix SOLD .
BB869 PSEUDOBROOKITE - Basalt Quarry, Pauliberg, Kobersdorf, Burgenland, Austria Very deep reddish brown tabular Pseudobrookite crystals in cavities in matrix +/- small orange red Enstatite crystals SOLD .
BB872 PSEUDOMALACHITE - Silberbrunnle Mine, Gengenbach, Black Forest, Germany Small dark green Pseudomalachite crystals in cavities in quartz/goethite matrix 25p 1
BB924 STRUNZITE & BERAUNITE - Cornelia Mine, Hagendorf-Sud, Bavaria, Germany Small straw coloured acicular Strunzite crystals with small dark greenish black Beraunite spheres in a cavity in matrix SOLD .
BB936 TRIDYMITE & SIDERITE - Vechec Quarry, Eastern Slanske Mountains, Presov Region, Slovakia Whitish hexagonal platy Tridymite crystals with small brown Siderite spheres in andesite matrix SOLD .
Europe - Eifel
BB959 AMPHIBOLE - Nickenicher, Nickenich, Eifel, Germany Orange acicular Amphibole crystals in cavities in matrix 25p 8
BB965 ENSTATITE & PSEUDOBROOKITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small glassy orange Enstatite crystals in cavities in matrix with shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals SOLD .
BB968 ENSTATITE, PSEUDOBROOKITE & RHONITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small glassy orange Enstatite crystals in cavities in matrix plus some shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals and deep red Rhonite crystals SOLD .
BB971 ENSTATITE & SODALITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small glassy orange Enstatite crystals in cavities in matrix with small white Sodalite crystals 25p 1
BB973 FORSTERITE, HAEMATITE & PSEUDOBROOKITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small red Forsterite crystals in cavities in matrix plus some black shiny tabular Haematite crystals, and shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals SOLD .
BB974 FORSTERITE & PSEUDOBROOKITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small red Forsterite crystals in cavities in matrix plus shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals 25p 3
BB977 HAEMATITE & FORSTERITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small black shiny tabular Haematite crystals in cavities in matrix with small red Forsterite crystals 25p 1
BB978 HAEMATITE & PSEUDOBROOKITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small black shiny tabular Haematite crystals in cavities in matrix with some shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals 25p 2
BB998 PSEUDOBROOKITE & FORSTERITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals with small red Forsterite crystals in cavities in matrix 25p 4
BB999 PSEUDOBROOKITE, FORSTERITE & HAEMATITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals with small red Forsterite crystals and black shiny tabular Haematite crystals in cavities in matrix 25p 2
BB1001 PSEUDOBROOKITE, HAEMATITE & FORSTERITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals with black shiny tabular Haematite crystals and small red Forsterite crystals in cavities in matrix 25p 1
Collection Thinnings
BBEX284 #F1609 JAROSITE - Gold Hill Mine, Tooele Co., Utah, USA Small brown Jarosite crystals covering goethite matrix 25p 1
ThumbnailsCornwall & Devon
. None currently available . . .
Cumberland & Westmorland
BBT635 CERUSSITE - Kinniside Mine, Cleator Moor, Cumberland, England White platy Cerussite crystals with colourless columnar Bartye crystals in a cavity in matrix. Ex Colin Robinson specimen 50p 1
BBT62 PYROMORPHITE - Mexico Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Cavities in quartz matrix lined wined with pale green hexagonal Pyromorphite crystals SOLD .
Rest of England
BBT93 SMITHSONITE - Stang Mine, Barnard Castle, North Yorkshire, England Small pale brown Smithsonite xtls in cavities in matrix 50p 1
Wales
BBT96 BARYTES & CALCITE - Taffs Well Quarry, Taffs Well, Mid Glamorgan, Wales White bladed Barytes crystals with small rhombic Calcite crystals scattered over 50p 1
Scotland
BBT117 PREHNITE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland Aggregates of grey-green Prehnite spheres, no matrix. Ugly but interesting nonetheless 50p 1
BBT126 VISHNEVITE - Allt a'Mhullin, Loch Borollan, Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland White massive Vishnevite embedded in matrix 50p 4
Ireland - North & South
BBT129 ARSENOPYRITE - Dhurode, Mizen Peninsula, Co. Cork, Ireland Silvery rhombic Arsenopyrite crystalsembedded in and protruding from quartz matrix 50p 1
America - North & South
BBT1181 PSEUDOBROOKITE & HAEMATITE - Thomas Mountain, Juab Co., Utah, USA Dark brown elongated Pseudobrookite crystals with black tabular Haematite crystals on matrix SOLD .
Asia/Australasia including Turkey
BBT208 PHLOGOPITE, HAEMATITE & TRIDYMITE - 3 Mile Bay, Taupo, New Zealand Thin brown plates of Phlogopite some coated in small spheres and blades of black Haematite on white Tridymite lining cavities in matrix 50p 2
Europe including Russia
BBT778 BOEHMITE & NATROLITE - Saga #1 Quarry, Sagasen, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway Small creamy coloured Boehmite crystals with small white or pinkish Natrolite crystals in cavities in Natrolite matrix. Ex John Tuffnell collection SOLD .
BBT1030 BOEHMITE & NATROLITE - Saga #1 Quarry, Sagasen, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway Small creamy coloured Boehmite crystals with small white or pinkish Natrolite crystals in cavities in Natrolite matrix. Ex Jill Goltz collection SOLD .
BBT236 FERRI-ALLANITE - Bastnas Mines, Riddarhytten, Vastmanland, Sweden Very dark brown resinous Ferri-Allanite in matrix with a little Actinolite/Tremolite 50p 2
Europe - The Eifel Region
BBT289 ENSTATITE, HAEMATITE, RHONITE, SODALITE & PSEUDOBROOKITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small glassy orange Enstatite crystals in cavities in matrix plus some black shiny tabular Haematite crystals, deep red Rhonite crystals, also small white Sodalite crystals, and shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals SOLD .
BBT293 FORSTERITE, PSEUDOBROOKITE & HAEMATITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small red Forsterite crystals in cavities in matrix plus shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals and shiny black tabular Haematite crystals SOLD .
BBT296 HAEMATITE & PSEUDOBROOKITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small black shiny tabular Haematite crystals in cavities in matrix with some shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals 50p 1
BBT297 HAEMATITE, PSEUDOBROOKITE & FORSTERITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small black shiny tabular Haematite crystals in cavities in matrix with some shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals and small red Forsterite crystals 50p 1
BBT303 PSEUDOBROOKITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals in cavities in matrix 50p 1
BBT304 PSEUDOBROOKITE, FORSTERITE, ENSTATITE & HAEMATITE - Nickenicher, Pellenz, Eifel, Germany Small shiny black tabular (square) Pseudobrookite crystals with small red Forsterite crystals, orange glassy Enstatite crystals and black shiny tabular Haematite crystals in cavities in matrix 50p 1
BB2702 PHLOGOPITE, SELLAITE & LEUCITE - Emmelberg, Udersdorf, Daun, Eifel, Germany Wafer thin brown Phlogopite crystals with colourless to white Sellaite crystals some of which are hollow and clear to whitish rounded Leucite crystals in cavities in matrix 50p 1
BBT307 SELLAITE, LEUCITE & PHLOGOPITE - Emmelberg, Udersdorf, Daun, Eifel, Germany Glass clear "rods" and "tubes" of Sellaite and clear to whitish rounded Leucite crystals, wafer thin brown Phlogopite crystals in cavities in matrix SOLD .
Minerals from SmeltersCornwall & Devon Smelters
BB1031 HALITE - Gannel Smelter, Crantock, Cornwall, England Small clear to white cubic Halite crystals in cavities in smelter slag 25p 1
Northern England Smelters
. None currently available . . .
Scottish and Welsh Smelters
. None currently available . . .
Unknown Locations
BB2722 VIVIANITE - ?? Deep bluish black Elongated Vivianite crystals, no matrix 25p 1
Unknown Locations - Thumbnails
BB2721 BORNITE - ?? Piece of "Horseflesh" Ore, no matrix 50p 1