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 Topic: Mimetite (var Campylite) Dry Gill Mine Caldbeck Fell Cumbria UK |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 1 Views: 324 |
 Forum: Micros & Macros - Images of Minerals Posted: Jun 07, 2025 10:55 Subject: Re: Mimetite (var Campylite) Dry Gill Mine Caldbeck Fell Cumbria UK |
| Looking Good Forrest!! | |
| Topic: Help , please, with locality |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 3 Views: 1632 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Apr 01, 2025 09:46 Subject: Re: Help , please, with locality |
| looking at your photograph in detail, the associated mineral doesn't look like calcite unless it has been very etched (which is possible given that the copper has had its patina removed). The greenish ... | |
| Topic: Dirtlow Rake Mine, Castleton, High Peak, Derbyshire UK |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 10 Views: 3851 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Mar 10, 2025 14:21 Subject: Re: Dirtlow Rake Mine, Castleton, High Peak, Derbyshire UK |
| Hi Forrest...yes, that one has always intrigued me too.
It looks for all the world as if the original cores with the beige colour concentric growth and "coxcombe" barite surfaces were som ... |
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| Topic: Dirtlow Rake Mine, Castleton, High Peak, Derbyshire UK |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 10 Views: 3851 |
Forum: Mines and Mineral Localities Posted: Mar 08, 2025 16:10 Subject: Re: Dirtlow Rake Mine, Castleton, High Peak, Derbyshire UK |
| I collected here with my father in the early seventies. Lots of galena, fluorite and calcite, but the prize pieces that I still have were the pink and white banded barites, of which I include a few pi ... | |
| Topic: Mineral Identification Question |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 23 Views: 16941 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Feb 09, 2025 15:16 Subject: Re: Mineral Identification Question |
| You are correct Herwig; I just don't have it in me to test the mineral Specimen with chemical means. The substance is likely toxic and could create fumes (?) and I do not have a fume hood.
My curr ... |
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| Topic: Unknown banded mineral from shores of lake Buttermere, Cumbria. UK |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 5 Views: 2622 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Feb 06, 2025 13:17 Subject: Re: Unknown banded mineral from shores of lake Buttermere, Cumbria. UK |
| Looks like either calcite or quartz that has grown in a fault gouge, crystallizing in a pocket between the handingwall and footwall, changing orientation as the fault moved.
The tests that Bob sugg ... |
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| Topic: I think this is Malachite after Barite? thoughts? |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 8 Views: 6483 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Dec 10, 2024 15:36 Subject: Re: I think this is Malachite after Barite? thoughts? |
| I bought this from a South African dealer who said he was pretty sure it was malachite after barite on dioptase from the DR Congo. I know malachite after barites were found in Mashamba West but they ... | |
| Topic: Is this dolomite-pyrite-siderite? |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 6 Views: 3560 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: May 28, 2024 10:15 Subject: Re: Is this dolomite-pyrite-siderite? |
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I am here seeking some help. Just to confirm Is this dolomite-pyrite-siderite? or something else? dim.: approx. 15 cm X 10 cm X 13 cm net weight: 1633 gr. origin: Unknown ... |
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| Topic: Need help identifying |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 4 Views: 4274 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Jan 19, 2024 08:42 Subject: Re: Need help identifying |
| I have recently acquired multiple minerals and stones and need help identifying them. I'm new to this forum and hope that the experience of the members can point me in the right direction and teach me ... | |
| Topic: Need to identify black stone |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 21 Views: 13374 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Jan 17, 2024 09:12 Subject: Re: Need to identify black stone |
| Could it be charcoal or even coal?
I agree with you James...the very straight sides and right-angled edges on the larger piece look like cleat breakage, which would be typical of coal. Take that w ... |
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| Topic: Can anyone help me identify the original mineral this pseudomorph? |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 4 Views: 5517 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Dec 16, 2023 11:08 Subject: Re: Can anyone help me identify the original mineral this pseudomorph? |
| Looks like an epimorph or perimorph of something. Find a broken crystal and see if you can work out the form of the mineral the epimorph covered
I agree with James that these look like epimorphs. ... |
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| Topic: What is this sand stone rock? |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 5 Views: 5892 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Nov 30, 2023 14:57 Subject: Re: What is this sand stone rock? |
| Here is a closeup, I hope, of better quality.
Not really. It may help to know where it was found, but I think I can say with certainty that it isn't a sand rose of any sort, ancient or otherwis ... |
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| Topic: Dissolution enables dolomite crystal growth near ambient conditions |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 9 Views: 12237 |
Forum: Mineralogical Literature Posted: Nov 27, 2023 11:28 Subject: Re: Dissolution enables dolomite crystal growth near ambient conditions |
| Following on from my post above, by an odd coincidence an article came up on my LinkedIn feed, pointing out the cover article from the magazine SCIENCE VOLUME 382| ISSUE 6673|24 NOV 2023 entitled &quo ... | |
| Topic: Dissolution enables dolomite crystal growth near ambient conditions |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 9 Views: 12237 |
Forum: Mineralogical Literature Posted: Nov 24, 2023 11:56 Subject: Re: Dissolution enables dolomite crystal growth near ambient conditions |
| Pete I have to contradict you. Your explanation of the replacement of calcite by dolomite during diagenesis was the ancient solution to the origin of dolomite formations such as the Dolomite Mountains ... | |
| Topic: I’m pretty sure I know what it is, I’m just curious how to smooth the scruffs |
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| Kevin Schofield Replies: 6 Views: 6019 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Nov 22, 2023 12:50 Subject: Re: I’m pretty sure I know what it is, I’m just curious how to smooth the scruffs |
| I found it in a rock pile at work. It’s pretty heavy I’d say nearly 90% is all geode. However as you can see it’s been roughed up scraping against rocks. My question is how do I polish it or get rid ... | |
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