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Tobi
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 Posted: Aug 21, 2014 02:44 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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I really like your Weardale fluorite specimens! As a fluorite collector, those classics from Weardale are always a pleasure to look at for me. I also have several in my collection: https://www.mindat.org/user-5297.html#2_0_0_0_0_0_weardale
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captaincaveman
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| Posted: Aug 21, 2014 03:45 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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Thanks Tobi, British fluorites are my main focus, followed by other British (and Republic of Ireland) minerals, though I do have a soft spot for wulfenite, vanadinite and dioptase
Loving the strong green fluorite you have. Mine are quite delicate colours, and I want some strong purples and greens and hopefully a nice blue at some point.
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Tobi
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| Posted: Aug 21, 2014 03:59 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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| captaincaveman wrote: | | British fluorites are my main focus, followed by other British (and Republic of Ireland) minerals, though I do have a soft spot for wulfenite, vanadinite and dioptase |
A good taste, all of them are wonderful minerals ... also galena, tourmaline, quartz, pyromorphite, beryl and many others ... ;)
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captaincaveman
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| Posted: Aug 21, 2014 04:39 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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| Tobi wrote: | | captaincaveman wrote: | | British fluorites are my main focus, followed by other British (and Republic of Ireland) minerals, though I do have a soft spot for wulfenite, vanadinite and dioptase |
A good taste, all of them are wonderful minerals ... also galena, tourmaline, quartz, pyromorphite, beryl and many others ... ;) |
Galena is another that I love in its cubic form. I need to get a nice sample of pyromorphite to round off the trilogy of pb5(xxxx)3cl. I love minerals with strong crystal structures and only really collect the massive specimens if there is something interesting like labradorite or many fluorescent minerals.
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captaincaveman
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| Posted: Aug 21, 2014 04:49 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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A thin quartz plate with gemmy sphalerite crystals and a white baryte pseudomorph after alstonite. Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nent Valley, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK
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Sphalerite and Baryte after Alstonite
Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nent Valley, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, UK
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Sphalerite and Baryte after Alstonite
Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nent Valley, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, UK
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Sphalerite and Baryte
Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nent Valley, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, UK
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captaincaveman
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| Posted: Aug 23, 2014 08:41 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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Penetration-twinned green fluorite crystals to 1.5cm with iron-stained quartz on matrix.
| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Rogerley Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham, England / United Kingdom |  |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 7 x 3.5cm. |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Rogerley Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 7 x 3.5cm. |
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captaincaveman
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| Posted: Aug 23, 2014 08:46 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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Small bed of purple crystals to 1cm
| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Frazer's Hush Mine, 295 level, Rookhope District, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 9x5x3.5cm |
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Pierre Joubert
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| Posted: Aug 23, 2014 13:24 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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Hey Captain, for a low budget collector you are doing quite well! Thank you for showing us your collection.
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captaincaveman
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| Posted: Aug 25, 2014 09:26 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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Fluorite crystals to 6mm on altered limestone matrix. This is from the Sutcliffe vein and not the main Greenbank vein currently worked in the mine.
| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Rogerley Mine, Sutcliffe vein, Frosterley, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 7x3x3cm 99g |
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captaincaveman
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| Posted: Aug 25, 2014 11:49 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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Yellow Fluorite crystals to 1cm scattered among Goethite after Siderite on Ironstone matrix
| Mineral: | Fluorite (yellow), Goethite after Siderite |
| Locality: | | Burtree Slits, Cowshill, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 6x6x4.5cm 160g |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite (yellow), Goethite after Siderite |
| Locality: | | Burtree Slits, Cowshill, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 6x6x4.5cm 160g |
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captaincaveman
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| Posted: Aug 29, 2014 10:01 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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Yellow fluorite from the Cement Quarry at Eastgate, Weardale.
Pale lilac fluorite crystals to 6mm on ironstone matrix
Small stubby quartz with light iron staining on small pale purple fluorite crystals to approx 4 mm.
Small glassy clear and pink hematite included quartz on fine specularite on massive hematite matrix.
| Mineral: | Fluorite (yellow) |
| Locality: | | Blue Circle Cement Quarry (Eastgate Quarry), Eastgate, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 8 x 5 x 2.5 cm |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Newlandside Quarry, Quarry Hill Veins, Stanhope, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.5 x 5 x 3.5cm |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite |
| Locality: | | Newlandside Quarry, Eastern Quarry, Stanhope, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 4.0 x 4.0 cm |
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| Mineral: | QUARTZ on SPECULARITE |
| Locality: | | Florence Mine, Egremont, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 7.5x3.0x4.0 cm |
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captaincaveman
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| Posted: Aug 31, 2014 09:37 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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Penetration-twinned purple fluorite crystals to 1.7cm on edge on thin matrix. They have a green core but appear purple
| Mineral: | Fluorite (purple) |
| Locality: | | Hollywell Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 7x3.5x2.5cm 52g |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite (purple) |
| Locality: | | Hollywell Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, North Pennines Orefield, County Durham, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 7x3.5x2.5cm 52g |
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Jamison Brizendine
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| Posted: Sep 02, 2014 14:38 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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Jason,
I really enjoy looking through your Weardale, England fluorites. A lot of these individual mines, I haven’t heard of so it is a treat to get to see some of the more obscure locales. I particularly like the specimen from Burtree Slits (Fluorite1.JPG, Page 1)
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captaincaveman
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| Posted: Sep 03, 2014 04:23 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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| Jamison Brizendine wrote: | Jason,
I really enjoy looking through your Weardale, England fluorites. A lot of these individual mines, I haven’t heard of so it is a treat to get to see some of the more obscure locales. I particularly like the specimen from Burtree Slits (Fluorite1.JPG, Page 1) |
Hi, I haven't even touched the surface with the number of mines in the north of England, some I may never find samples from. These are just Weardale itself without going further out.
Try looking here. there are loads more areas with links at bottom.
https://www.ukminingventures.com/Weardale.htm
(link normalized by FMF)
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captaincaveman
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| Posted: Sep 04, 2014 06:11 Post subject: Re: Collection of Jason |
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Small stubby smokey quartz crystals with an aesthetic group of micaceous specularite
| Mineral: | Quartz (var. smokey) and Hematite (var. specularite) |
| Locality: | | Florence Mine, Egremont, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | 5.0 x 5.5 cm |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (var. smokey) and Hematite (var. specularite) |
| Locality: | | Florence Mine, Egremont, West Cumberland Iron Field, former Cumberland, Cumbria, England / United Kingdom | |
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