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Translucent pale blue with a hint of grey coloured crystals on ayellowish matrix.

A block of pegmatite matrix with broken face richly included with sections of pale aquamarine beryl. Quite rich for the locality, uncommon...

Brick red sharp pseudomorphs of calcite by limonite stand out on a matrix of the same. An obscure locality; an old lead trial on the...

A typical locality specimen of bright salmon pink interlocking rhombs of rhodochrosite on a greenish carbonate matrix with blebs of white...

A small cut and polished section of rhodochrosite over a deeper brownish sulphide banding.Rhombohedral crystal forms can be seen at the...

A nice sharp example of a "Pigs Egg",- a Carlsbad Twin orthoclase replaced by kaolinite.

A flake of dark grey matrix is covered both sides with gleaming black crystals of sphalerite culminating with a large crystal mass at one...

A light sprinkling of gemmy orange/red vanadinite crystals across matrix. Some minor abrasions and one contact Spin Presentation

A matrix covered in small discrete green tinged heulandite crystals has a cover of really fine apophyllite crystals, maybe in 2 generations...

A mass of small green crystals of atacamite formed in to a nodular habit, with tiny white flakes I believe to be talc.

A fine tangle of random helictical threads and branches of aragonite cover a matrix of the same. Slightly tan in colour, but superb example...

A polished section through the tip of a double stalagmite showing the concentric growth rings. There is a slight ding at one edge.

Lustrous, very sharp andradite garnet crystals form a striking and very sculptural specimen from a very uncommon locale in Chile - the...

A small quartz gossan matrix rich with turquoise blue crusts of microcrystalline ozarizawaite. Dated 1986, with a Dave Shannon label.

Small pretty thumbnail of abundant rice grain gemmy smithsonite formed to the surface of more smithsonite enclosing a layer of blue green...

A single octahedral crystal of magnetite standing on diabase matrix. The crystal is intact but there is some loss of face surfaces.

A chromite matrix is covered to the display side with suprisingly gemmy uniformly sized peaked crystals of kammererite with a little lilac...

A calcitic flow stone with small mushroom crystal development cemnets a range of pebbles to an orange flint.

A flat plate of small greyish mauve quartz crystals have a backdrop of white quartz crystals. At the front is a single larger quartz...

Greyish crystalline matrix gives way to a layer of white translucent bladed crystals up to 1.4cms.

A wonderful specimen of a large limonite stained scalenohedral calcite crystal with partial regrowth of frosted white rhombohedral crystals...

A fine larger stretched partial cuprite with visible faces tending to trapezoidal in shape, and an overall dodecahedral form. Alas the back...

A large frosted white complex crystal of apophyllite rests on a mound of other apophyllite and cream coloured stilbite. No damage.

An excellent group of sharply terminated smoky grey brown barite crystals. No damage. Purchased from Don Edwards in 1986.

A quartz and pyrite "shell" epimorph of another mineral is host to some cubic galena crystals with stepped faces and traces of etching...

A small blue crust of microcrystalline vauxite with crystals covering the face. Dated 1991.

Lots of bright silvery black flat roughly hexagonal crystals of graphite trapped in a rough calcite matrix. Date 1989.

A bright brassy cubic crystal of cobaltite part embedded in a calcite matrix. Crystal is not complete but a good representative.Dated 1980.

A ridge of grey to white massive barite forms the core with light tan bladed crystals over.

A novel little quartz specimen comprising a dull body with haematite dusting with a clear recrystallised "cap" with pronounced phantom to...