Micromounts - Cumberland & Westmorland...........Updated 28 March 2024
119 AZURITE - High Longrigg Mine, Kirkby Stephen, Hartley, Eden, Cumberland, England Small to tiny deep blue Azurite crystals in cavities in matrix +/- Malachite £1.00 3
120 AZURITE & ZINCOLIVENITE - High Longrigg Mine, Kirkby Stephen, Hartley, Eden, Cumberland, England Small to tiny deep blue Azurite crystals with green Zincolivenite which occurs as a minutely crystallised thin crust on Malachite in cavities in matrix £1.00 £1.50p £2.00 1 2 1
121 BARYTE - Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Clear thin tabular or elongated Barytes crystals on or in cavities in matrix £1.50p 1
122 BARYTE - Scaleburn Mine, Nenthead, Cumberland, England White tabular Barytes crystals in matrix. Ex Peter Braithwaite collection £1.00 1
1148 BARYTE - Silverband Mine, Dun Fell, Eden, Westmorland, England Aggregates of clear tabular Baryte crystals on a white baryte matrix 50p £1.00 £1.50p 1 2 1
1148a BARYTE - Silverband Mine, Dun Fell, Eden, Westmorland, England Single large Baryte crystal with micro sulphide inclusions, no matrix SOLD OUT .
124 BARYTOCALCITE - Blagill Mine, Alston, Cumberland, England Off-white Barytocalcite crystals in a cavitiy in matrix £1.00 2
127 BAYLDONITE & MIMETITE - Driggith Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Green botryoidal Bayldonite with tiny pale yellow Mimetite crystals plus some Malachite in a cavity in quartz matrix £1.00 1
128 BEUDANTITE - Deer Hills, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Greenish-yellow crust of minute Beaudantite crystals on quartz matrix £1.50p 1
129 BEUDANTITE - Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Cumberland, England Dusting of very minute yellowish green Beudantite crystals on matrix £1.00 1
131 BISMUTHINITE - Shap Granite Quarry, Shap, Westmorland, England Grey Bismuthinite with light tarnishing embedded in granite matrix £1.00 1
133 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 £1.00 £1.50p 3 2
1149 CALCITE - Windscale Pit, Haile, Cumberland, England Clear "nail-head" Calcite crystals some doubly terminated in a cavity in matrix SOLD OUT .
1150 CARMINITE & BEAUDANTITE - Deer Hills, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Minute red Carminite crystals with yellowish green Beaudantite crystals on quartz matrix 50p 1
1151 CERUSSITE - Eagle Crag Mine, Grisedale, Westmorland, England Whitish "jackstraw" acicular Cerussite crystals in a cavity in quartz matrix SOLD OUT .
134 CERUSSITE - Saddleback Old Mine, Blencathra, Cumberland, England Whitish to black (included) Cerussite crystals in cavities in quartz matrix £1.00 £1.50p 1 1
138 CHRYSOCOLLA - Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Blue Chrysocolla shot through quartz matrix £1.00 2
139 CHRYSOCOLLA Pseudomorphs after MALACHITE - Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Bluish green Chrysocolla almost completely replacing acicular Malachite on matrix +/- pyromorphite, cerussite £1.00 1
1153 DUFTITE - Driggith Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Minute bright green sparkling Duftite crystals in cavities in quartz gossan matrix £1.00 1
140 EPIDOTE - Shap Blue Quarry, Shap, Westmorland, England Sprays of olive-green crystalline Epidote embedded in matrix, no crystal terminations £1.00 3
1154 ERYTHRITE & ASBOLANE - Sandbeds Gill, Bassenthwaite, Cumberland, England Tiny pale pink Erythrite crystals with black Asbolane in cavities in quartz matrix SOLD OUT .
1155 FLUORITE - Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumberland, England Very pale blue cubic Fluorite crystals covering Haematite matrix SOLD OUT .
1156 GALENA & ERYTHRITE - Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Cumberland, England Grey modified cube-octahedral Galena crystals embedded in calcite matrix plus some pinkish Erythrite SOLD OUT .
142 GREENOCKITE - Driggith Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Thin patches of yellow Greenockite on matrix 50p 2
143 HAEMATITE - Beckermet Mine, Egremont, Cumberland, England Shiny black thin tabular Haematite crystals in cavities in haematite matrix +/- Quartz £1.00 1
144 HAEMATITE - Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumberland, England Plates of shiny black thin Specular Haematite crystals showing some irridescence on matrix +/- Quartz crystals £1.00 1
145 HAEMATITE - Haile Moor Mine, Egremont, Cumberland, England Shiny black thin tabular Haematite crystals in cavities in haematite matrix +/- Quartz £1.50p 1
1158 LINARITE - Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Blue Linarite crystals with green Malachite in cavities in quartz matrix SOLD OUT .
1159 MALACHITE - Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Velvety green Malachite crystals in cavities in quartz gossan matrix £1.00 1
1160 MIMETITE - Arm 'o' Grain, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Aggragates of yellow spiky Mimetite crystals in cavities in quartz matrix £1.00 2
154 MIMETITE - Driggith Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Pale yellow to green Mimetite crystals in various forms in cavities in quartz matrix +/- pale yellow Bindheimite 50p £1.00 £1.50p 3 1 2
155 MIMETITE - Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Yellow to orange tabular to elongated often doubly-terminated Mimetite crystals on quartz matrix +/- Barytes £1.00 £1.50p 9 3
156 MIMETITE - Sandbed Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Green "barrel" shaped Mimetite crystals scattered over matrix SOLD OUT .
1161 MIMETITE variety CAMPYLITE - Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Classic orange Campylite crystals on quartz/pyrolusite matrix £1.00 4
1162 MOTTRAMITE - Arm 'o' Grain, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Tiny black Mottramite crystals on quartz matrix 50p 1
158 MUSCOVITE - Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Clusters of pale brown thin hexagonal "books" of Muscovite in a acvity in quartz matrix £1.00 1
1163 PSEUDOMALACHITE - Short Grain Middle, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Small spheres of tiny green Pseudomalachite crystals in a cavity in quartz matrix £1.00 1
162 PYROLUSITE & CALCITE - Lindal Moor Mine, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria (formerly Lancashire), England Dark grey matted Pyrolusite with a few black complex free-standing stalactites of minute Pyrolusite crystals on rhombic Calcite crystals on matrix £2.00 2
164 PYROMORPHITE - Mexico Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Cavities in quartz matrix lined with pale green hexagonal Pyromorphite crystals £1.00 3
1164 PYROMORPHITE - Mexico Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Yellow hexagonal Pyromorphite crystals with clear Quartz crystals mounted on a pedestal £1.50p 1
165 PYROMORPHITE - Mexico Opencut, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Nice bright, quite large (up to 10mm), yellow-green hexagonal Pyromorphite crystals, no matrix £1.00 £1.50p £3.00 1 8 1
166 PYROMORPHITE - Saddleback Old Mine, Blencathra, Cumberland, England White to green, hexagonal to acicular Pyromorphite crystals in cavities and on quartz matrix £1.00 £1.50p £2.00 3 6 3
1165 PYROMORPHITE & WULFENITE - Thief Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Small greenish yellow Pyromorphite crystals in various forms with small orange tabular Wulfenite crystals in a shallow depression SOLD OUT .
1166 QUARTZ - Driggith Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Point of a single clear Quartz crystal, no matrix SOLD OUT .
174 SCORODITE - Deer Hills, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Pale greyish-blue crystalline crust of tiny Scorodite crystals on matrix, +/- Carminite, Beaudantite £1.00 1
175 SPHALERITE - Driggith Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Small dark sherry coloured or orange brown Sphalerite crystals in cavities in quartz/baryte matrix SOLD OUT .
1168 SPHALERITE - Eagle Crag Mine, Grisedale, Westmorland, England Dark brown to black Sphalerite crystals in cavities in quartz matrix SOLD OUT .
1169 SPHALERITE - Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumberland, England Shiny black Sphalerite crystals on matrix SOLD OUT .
176 STIBNITE & ARSENOPYRITE - Wet Swine Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Small grey acicular Stibnite crystals with small silvery rhombic Arsenopyrite crystals in cavities in quartz matrix £1.00 1
1170 TETRAHEDRITE - Eagle Crag Mine, Grisedale, Westmorland, England Small dull grey tetrahedral Tetrahedrite crystals, bright and shiny where broken, in a cavity in quartz/tetrahdrite/galena matrix 50p 1
1171 WULFENITE - Hartsop Hall Mine, Hartsop, Westmorland, England Small dark orange blocky to tabular Wulfenite crystals scattered over quartz matrix SOLD OUT .
1172 WULFENITE & PYROMORPHITE - Hartsop Hall Mine, Hartsop, Westmorland, England Small dark orange blocky to tabular Wulfenite crystals with tiny green Pyromorphite crystals scattered over quartz matrix SOLD OUT .
1173 WULFENITE & PYROMORPHITE - Thief Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Small orange tabular Wulfenite crystals on greenish yellow Pyromorphite crystals on massive Pyromorphite matrix SOLD OUT .