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James Catmur
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 Posted: Sep 20, 2013 05:08 Post subject: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Somerset |
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Yet another county where I used to live - but in those days I was very young and collected fosils! We lived very close to Dulcote Quarry too. We can expect some rare minerals and some interesting secondary minerals
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Hydrocerussite
Torr Works Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, England, UK
28x30 mm
Stubby hydrocerussite crystal from Torr Works Quarry (Merehead Quarry)
Photo & Specimen kindly supplied by Ian Jones. Thanks Ian! |
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ian jones
Joined: 29 Jul 2009
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Location: london
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| Posted: Sep 25, 2013 12:58 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Somerset |
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A trio of rarities to set the Merehead ball rolling, all collected in the early 1980s.
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Chloroxiphite
Torr Works Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, England, UK
25mm blade of green chloroxiphite in orange mereheadite with pale pink mendipite |
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Diaboleite
Blades of olive-green chloroxiphite covering a 17x20mm area, with 1-2mm blebs of sky-blue diaboleite and pink mendipite. |
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Paralaurionite
Yellow paralaurionite 25x15mm |
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Ru Smith
Joined: 13 Oct 2012
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2013 17:33 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Somerset |
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Small twinned calcite.
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Calcite twin.
Torr Works Quarry (Merehead Quarry), Cranmore, Somerset, England, UK.
16 mm. |
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ian jones
Joined: 29 Jul 2009
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Location: london
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| Posted: Sep 30, 2013 10:34 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Somerset |
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Cannington Park Quarry, a now disused limestone quarry, used to produce some interesting specimens, particularly acicular malachite.
These are typical acicular malachite crystals partly coated with azurite, the latter also part-coating dolomite crystals.
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Malachite
Cannington Park Quarry, Cannington, Somerset, England, UK
10x8mm area of curved, acicular malachite |
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ian jones
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Location: london
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| Posted: Mar 08, 2014 16:36 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Somerset |
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A Merehead calcite - globular aggregates to 8mm formed of minute manganoan calcite crystals.
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Calcite
Torr Works Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, England, UK
globular aggregates to 8mm |
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Andy Lawton
Joined: 12 Apr 2014
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Location: Staffordshire
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| Posted: Apr 22, 2014 10:08 Post subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the regions of the UK - England / Somerset |
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Another Merehead calcite in the form of modified rhombs
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Calcite
Torr Works Quarry (Merehead Quarry), Cranmore, Somerset, England, UK
Crystals ~ 6 mm on edge in a cavity in Mn-oxides. FOV ~ 45 mm across. |
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