Micromounts Scotland...........Updated 29 June 2018
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ALLANITE-Ce - Loch Ainort, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Small black thin tabular Allanite-Ce crystal in a cavity in granitic matrix |
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ANALCITE - Road Cutting, Struan, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland |
Whitish to colourless Analcite Crystals on basalt matrix |
50p £1.00 |
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ANALCITE & MESOLITE - Road Cutting, Struan, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland |
Whitish to colourless Analcite Crystals with acicular Mesolite crystals on basalt matrix |
£1.00 |
2 |
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ANALCITE, MESOLITE & CALCITE - Road Cutting, Struan, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Whitish to colourless Analcite Crystals with acicular Mesolite crystals with minute Calcite crystals speared on them
on basalt matrix |
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ANDRADITE - Coatsgate Quarry, Beattock, Dumfriesshire, Scotland |
Dark orangy-brown, very gemmy, Andradite crystals on matrix |
50p |
1 |
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ANDRADITE & CALCITE - Coatsgate Quarry, Beattock, Dumfriesshire, Scotland |
Dark orangy-brown Andradite crystals with greyish Calcite crystals on matrix |
50p |
1 |
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ANGLESITE - Loch na Meine Mine, Strathglass, Invernesshire, Scotland
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Small clear Anglesite crystals in cavities in decomposed galena matrix |
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ANGLESITE & CERUSSITE - Loch na Meine Mine, Strathglass, Invernesshire, Scotland
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Small clear Anglesite crystals with clear (different shaped) Cerussite crystals in cavities in decomposed galena matrix |
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AUGITE - Bail Hill, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, Scotland |
Single very dark blackish green Augite crystal, no matrix |
£1.50p |
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AURICHALCITE - Pibble Mine, Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
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Greenish-blue feathery aggregates of Aurichalcite crystals in gossan matrix |
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BARYTES - Allt Tighe Cumhaig, Struy, Invernesshire, Scotland |
Clusters of colourless blocky Barytes crystals, some with minute sulphide inclusions, little or no matrix |
50p £1.00 |
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BARYTES - Loch na Meine Mine, Strathglass, Invernesshire, Scotland
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Clear tabular Barytes crystals in cavities in matrix plus a little green Pyromorphite |
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BARYTES - Tronach Head, Portknockie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
Clear to reddish-brown (iron inclusions), tabular Barytes crystals on matrix |
£1.00 £1.50p |
1 1 |
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BREWSTERITE - Whitesmith Mine, Strontian, Argyllshire, Scotland |
Colourless to pale brown Strontianite crystals on Calcite crystals on granite/calcite/barytes matrix |
£1.00 £1.50p |
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CALCITE - Coatsgate Quarry, Beattock, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
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Grey Calcite crystals with a dusting of red haematite flakes on matrix |
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CALCITE, BIOTITE & SPHENE - Loch Ainort, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Small white Calcite "pyramids" with dark green Biotite and small tan coloured sphene crystals in granitic matrix |
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CALEDONITE - Whytes Cleugh, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
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Sky-blue elongated Caledonite crystals in a cavity in matrix |
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CERUSSITE - Hopeful Vein, Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Whitish Cerussite crystals in a cavity in matrix |
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CERUSSITE - Loch na Meine Mine, Strathglass, Invernesshire, Scotland
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Small whitish Cerussite crystals in cavity in decomposed galena matrix |
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CERUSSITE - Pibble Mine, Newton Stewart, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
Small whitish Cerussite crystals in gossan matrix |
50p |
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CERUSSITE, ANGLESITE & PYROMORPHITE - Loch na Meine Mine, Strathglass, Invernesshire,
ScotlandSOLD |
Small whitish Cerussite crystals with small clear Anglesite crystals and small green Pyromorphite crystals
in matrix |
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CHRYSOCOLLA Pseudo after VESZELYITE - Straitstep Vein, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland |
Bluish-green Chrysocolla completely replacing Veszelyite crystals on Hemimorphite in quartz gossan matrix |
£1.00 £1.50p |
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CHRYSOTILE - Old Hagdale Quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland |
Greenish Chrysotile, no matrix |
£1.00 |
1 |
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COWLESITE - Oisgill Bay, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland |
Rounded aggregates of minute whitish Cowlesite crystals in cavities in basalt matrix |
£1.00 £1.50p |
2 1 |
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COWLESITE & CALCITE - Oisgill Bay, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Rounded aggregates of minute whitish Cowlesite crystals with small rhombohedral Calcite crystals in a cavity
in basalt matrix |
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COWLESITE & CHABAZITE - Oisgill Bay, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
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Rounded aggregates of minute whitish Cowlesite crystals with small glassy rhombohedral Chabazite crystals in
cavities in basalt matrix |
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EPIDOTE, PREHNITE & PUMPELLYITE - Creag Brimishgan, Loch na Keal, Isle of Mull, Scotland
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Radiating sprays of yellowish-green acicular Epidote crystals with aggregates of tightly packed platy Prehnite crystals
growing out of a carpet of dark green Pumpellyite crystals in cavities in matrix |
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EPIDOTE & PUMPELLYITE - Creag Brimishgan, Loch na Keal, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland |
Radiating sprays of yellowish-green acicular Epidote Crystals growing out of a carpet of dark green Pumpellyite
crystals in cavities in matrix |
£1.00 £1.50p |
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EPISTILBITE & PUMPELLYITE - Creag Brimishgan, Loch na Keal, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland
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Colourless bladed Epistilbite crystals on dark green Pumpellyite crystals in Pumpellyite lined cavities in matrix |
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FLUORITE - Netherglen Quarry, Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland |
Pale mauve cubic Fluorite crystals on matrix |
£1.00 |
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FLUORITE, ZIRCON & CHEKINITE-Ce - Loch Ainort, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Very pale mauve octahedral Fluorite crystal with a tan coloured skeletal Zircon crystal next to it in a cavity
in granitic matrix and a shiny black "rod" of Chevkinite-Ce, embedded in the matrix elsewhere on the specimen |
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GARNET - Coire an Lochain, Inverie, Knoydart, Argyllshire, Scotland
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Pinkish Garnet crystals (type not known), embedded in matrix |
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GROSSULAR & CALCITE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland
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Sparkling orangy-brown Grossular crystals with clear blocky Calcite crystals in cavity in matrix |
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GROSSULAR & MAGNETITE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland
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Sparkling orangy-brown Grossular crystals with tiny black octahedral Magnetite crystals in cavity in matrix |
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GRUNERITE - Flowerdale Mains, Gairloch, Ross and Cromartyshire, Scotland
| Radiating sprays of greyish-green acicular Grunerite crystals forming the bulk of the specimens with oarngy
pink garnets and black Magnetite
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HAEMATITE - Castletown Mine, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland |
Small reddish-brown micaceous Haematite crystals in cavities in cellular quartz matrix |
50p £1.00 |
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HEDENBERGITE - Loch Ainort, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
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Light grey-green intergrown masses of acicular hair-like Hedenbergite crystals in a cavity in granite matrix |
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HEMIMORPHITE - New Glencrief Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
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Sprays of bladed Hemimorphite crystals in a cavity in gossan matrix |
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HEMIMORPHITE - Pibble Mine, Newton Stewart, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
Cavities in gossan matrix lined with small greyish Hemimorphite crystals |
50p £1.00 |
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HEMIMORPHITE - Whytes Cleugh, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland |
Sprays of yellow Hemimorphite crystals on matrix |
£1.00 |
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HEULANDITE - Gargunnock Hills, Stirlingshire, Scotland
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Cavities in basalt matrix lined with small orange-red Heulandite crystals |
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HEULANDITE - Sgurr nam Boc, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
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Really nice white to pink Heulandite crystals in a cavity in basalt matrix |
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HYDROZINCITE - Whitesmith Mine, Strontian, Argyllshire |
White Hydrozincite coating Calcite crystals on matrix |
50p £1.00 |
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LEVYNE & OFFRETITE/ERIONITE - Oisgill Bay, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
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Very thin white tabular Levyne crystals coated on both sides with velvety Offretite/Erionite in cavities in basalt matrix |
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LINARITE - Pibble Mine, Newton Stewart, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
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Small blue Linarite crystals in cavities in gossan matrix +/- small whitish Cerussite |
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LINARITE & CERUSSITE - Pibble Mine, Newton Stewart, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
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Small blue Linarite crystals with whitish Cerussite crystals in cavities in gossan matrix +/- Brochantite,
Hemimorphite |
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MAGNETITE - Coire Buidhe, Loch Creran, Argyllshire, Scotland |
Small black octahedral Magnetite crystals on quartz matrix +/- epidote |
50p |
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MAGNETITE - Tol Doire Quarry, Salen, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Black "stepped" octahedral Magnetite crystals in cavities in granite matrix +/- Epidote, Albite, Orthoclase, Quartz |
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MALACHITE - Pibble Mine, Newton Stewart, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
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Cavities in gossan matrix filled with small green feathery Malachite crystals |
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MESOLITE & ANALCITE - Road Cutting, Struan, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
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Very thin white acicluar Mesolite crystals on clear Analcite crystals lining cavities in basalt matrix |
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METASTIBNITE - Hare Hill Mine, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
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Thin coating of red Meta-Stibnite on Stibnite in quartz/stibnite matrix |
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MOLYBDENITE - Chapel of Garioch, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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Bright silvery-grey hexagonal Molybdenite plates embedded in quartz matrix |
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MOLYBDENITE & FERRIMOLYBDITE - Chapel of Garioch, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
Bright silvery-grey hexagonal Molybdenite plates embedded in quartz matrix with pale yellow feathery acicular
Ferrimolybdite in association |
£1.50p £2.50p |
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MULLITE - Port na Cloidheig, Loch Scridain, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland |
Pale pink, square sectioned Mullite crystals embedded in baked mudstone matrix +/- Sapphire |
50p £1.00 |
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NATROLITE on PREHNITE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland |
Colourless natrolite crystals on very pale green Prehnite in cavities in Prehnite matrix |
£1.00 £1.50p |
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PENTLANDITE - Talnotry Mine, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland
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Shiny brassy Pentlandite shot through matrix |
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PHOSPHOHEDYPHANE - Whytes Cleugh, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
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Tiny white Phosphohedyphane crystals lining cavities in massive phosphohedyphane matrix |
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PREHNITE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland |
Pale green tabular Prehnite crystals on massive prehnite matrix |
£1.50p |
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PREHNITE - Pitscurries Quarry, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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Aggregates of small tabular Prehnite crystals on matrix |
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PUMPELLYITE - Creag Brimishgan, Loch na Keal, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland
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Greyish-green to dark green Pumpellyite xtls lining cavities in matrix +/- Epidote |
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PYRITE & CELSIAN - Ben Eagagach, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland
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Brassy modified Pyrite crystals embedded in a whitish crystalline Celsian matrix |
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PYROMORPHITE - Belton Grain Vein, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland |
Yellowish-green to orange hexagonal Pyromorphite crystals in matrix |
£1.00 £1.50p £2.00 |
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PYROMORPHITE - Glengonnar Shaft, Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
Green to orange hexagonal Pyromorphite crystals on matrix |
50p £1.00 £1.50p |
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PYROMORPHITE - Hopeful Vein, Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Yellowish-green to green hexagonal Pyromorphite crystals on matrix |
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PYROMORPHITE - Loch na Meine Mine, Strathglass, Invernesshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Tiny green acicular Pyromorphite crystals on matrix |
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PYROMORPHITE - Pibble Mine, Newton Stewart, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Thin crusts of minute greenish-yellow Pyromorphite crystals on matrix |
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PYROMORPHITE - Straitstep Vein, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
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Small hexagonal, light green Pyromorphite crystals on matrix |
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PYROMORPHITE - Susanna Mine, Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
Green to orange Pyromorphite crystals on matrix |
50p £1.00 £2.00 |
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PYROMORPHITE - Whytes Cleugh, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland |
Small greenish-yellow to orange hexagonal Pyromorphite on matrix |
50p £1.00 |
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PYROMORPHITE & BARYTES - Loch na Meine Mine, Strathglass, Invernesshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Tiny green acicular Pyromorphite crystals with small white or clear Barytes crystals on matrix |
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SPHALERITE - Netherglen Quarry, Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland
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Sherry coloured Spahelrite crystals on quartz matrix |
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STIBNITE - Hare Hill Mine, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland |
Grey or lightly tarnished, very fine acicular to relatively thicker Stibnite crystals in cavities in
quartz/stibnite matrix |
50p £1.00 £1.50p |
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STIBNITE & VALENTINITTE - Hare Hill Mine, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Grey elongated Stibnite crystals with small creamy coloured Valentinite crystals in cavities in quartz/stibnite matrix |
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STILBITE - Bracadale, Loch Harport, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland |
Small whitish flat topped Stilbite crystals in cavities in matrix |
50p |
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STILBITE - Sligachan Quarry, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Clusters of white Stilbite crystals, on or off matrix |
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THOMSONITE - Oisgill Bay, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire, Scotland
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Sprays of creamy coloured Thomsonite crystals on basalt matrix |
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THOMSONITE, CALCITE & MESOLITE - Talisker Bay, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Invernesshire,
ScotlandSOLD |
Small thin clear bladed Thomsonite crystalslining a cavity in basalt matrix with some very fine acicular
Mesolite crystals spearing small rhombic Calcite crystals |
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VISHNEVITE - Allt a'Mhullin, Loch Borollan, Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland
SOLD |
White massive Vishnevite embedded in matrix |
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WULFENITE - Loch na Meine Mine, Strathglass, Invernesshire, Scotland
SOLD |
Small orange bipyramidal Wulfenite crystals with green Pyromorphite on matrix |
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