Bargain Basement..................Updated 2 March 2025Cornwall & Devon
BB40 CASSITERITE - Bucketts Mine, Redruth, Cornwall, England Small to tiny, brown to black Cassiterite crystals on chlorite matrix 25p 2
BB43 CASSITERITE - Roselidden Mine, Wendron, Cornwall, England Dark brown sparable Cassiterite crystals in cavities in quartz matrix +/- Quartz, Muscovite 25p 3
1110 CASSITERITE - "WOOD TIN" - Trevaunance Cove, St. Agnes, Cornwall, England Small brown "rings" of and spheres of Cassiterite - Wood Tin in part of a beach pebble 25p 1
BB46 CHABAZITE - Ramsley Mine, South Zeal, Devon, England Small colourless rhombohedral Chabazite crystals on matrix SOLD .
BB85 PHARMACOSIDERITE - Cathedral Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, England Small pale green or brown cubic Pharmacosiderite crystals in cavities in gossan matrix 25p 2
BB99 SCORODITE - Roselidden Mine, Wendron, Cornwall, England Small drusy greyish Scorodite spheres in cavities in quartz matrix 25p 3
BB102 SCORODITE - Wheal Music, Porthtowan, Cornwall, England Pale greyish-blue crusts and spheres of drusy Scorodite crystals on killas matrix. Ex Bob Cheetham collection SOLD .
Cumberland & Westmorland
BB119 AZURITE - High Longrigg Mine, Kirkby Stephen, Hartley, Eden, Cumberland, England Small to tiny deep blue Azurite crystals in cavities in matrix +/- Malachite 25p 1
BB120 AZURITE & ZINCOLIVENITE - High Longrigg Mine, Kirkby Stephen, Hartley, Eden, Cumberland, England Small to tiny deep blue Azurite crystals with green Zincolivenite which occurs as a minutely crystallised thin crust on Malachite in cavities in matrix SOLD .
BB124 BARYTOCALCITE - Blagill Mine, Alston, Cumberland, England Off-white Barytocalcite crystals in a cavitiy in matrix 25p 2
BB138 CHRYSOCOLLA - Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Blue Chrysocolla shot through quartz matrix SOLD .
BB144 HAEMATITE - Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumberland, England Plates of shiny black thin Specular Haematite crystals showing some irridescence on matrix +/- Quartz crystals SOLD .
BB164 PYROMORPHITE - Mexico Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Cavities in quartz matrix lined with pale green hexagonal Pyromorphite crystals 25p 2
Rest of England
BB204 MOTTRAMITE - Pim Hill, Harmer Hill, Shropshire, England Tiny greenish-black Mottramite crystals encrusting sandstone matrix 25p 2
Wales
BB225 ANGLESITE - Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor, Radnorshire, Wales Small colourless Anglesite crystals in cavities in tennantite/galena matrix 25p 2
BB242 MILLERITE - Esgair Fraith Mine, Talybont, Cardiganshire, Wales Brassy acicular Millerite crystals mostly embedded in but occaisionally protruding from quartz matrix +/- chalcopyrite, sphalerite 25p 3
BB247 PYROMORPHITE - Bwlch Glas Mine, Talybont, Cardiganshire, Wales Green to yellowish-green hexagonal to acicular Pyromorphite crystals on matrix SOLD .
Scotland
BB254 AMPHIBOLE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland Very thin green acicular Amphibole needles lining cavities in matrix 25p 3
BB262 ANALCITE - Tiroran, Loch Scridain, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland Colourless Analcite Crystals lining cavities in basalt matrix 25p 2
BB276 CALCITE, EPIDOTE & ALBITE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland White to brown rhombic Calcite crystals with small dark green bladed Epidote crystals and small white Albite crystals in cavities in matrix 25p 2
BB286 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 SOLD .
BB297 PREHNITE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland Aggregates of grey-green Prehnite spheres, no matrix. Ugly but interesting nonetheless 25p 1
BB311 SMITHSONITE, QUARTZ, CHALCOPYRITE & DOLOMITE - Blackcraig Mine, Newton Stewart, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Small off-white "rice grain" Smithsonite crystals with clear Quartz crystals, bronze coloured Chalcopyrite crystals on and pale brown Dolomite crystals on matrix 25p 1
Ireland North and South
. None currently available . . .
Africa
. None currently available . . .
Americas North & South including Greenland including Turkey
BB493 HEULANDITE - Green Peter Dam, Linn Co., Oregon, USA Colourless Heulandite crystals in cavities in basalt matrix 25p 4
BB506 MAGNETITE in TALC - Chesters, Lamont, Canada Shiny black octahedral magnetite crystals embedded in micaceous crystalline Talc matrix 25p 3
Asia and Australasia
. None currently available . . .
Europe excluding Turkey
BB686 ADAMITE - Hilarion Mine, Lavrion, Greece Very pale yellow to pale green glassy Adamite crystals in cavities in gossan matrix �1.00 4
BB729 BAUXITE - Villeveyrac, France Dark brown pisolitic Bauxite, (principle aluminium ore), as the whole specimen 25p 2
BB734 BISMUTH - Schmiedestollen, Wittichen, Black Forest, Germany Bright silvery (on fresh exposures) Bismuth embedded in matrix 25p 2
BB746 CARMINITE & PLUMBOGUMMITE - Les Montmins, Echassieres, Allier, France Clusters of tiny red spiky Carminite crystals with creamy white Plumbogummite and some Beudantite/Segnitite in cavities in quartz matrix 25p 1
BB783 EPIDOTE & ALBITE - Landsverk 1, Landsverk, Evje og Hornes, Agder, Norway Green Epidote crystals with clear tabular Albite crystals on matrix 25p 1
BB788 ERYTHRITE - Schmiedestollen, Wittichen, Black Forest, Germany Small pink Erythrite crystals on granite matrix 25p 2
BB791 FERRI-ALLANITE & ACTINOLITE/TREMOLITE - Bastnas Mines, Riddarhytten, Vastmanland, Sweden Very dark brown resinous Ferri-Allanite with pale to dark green fibrous Actinolite/Tremolite forming the whole of the specimens 25p 1
BB839 MARCASITE - Tanzenberg Tunnel 2, Kapfenberg, Bruck an der Mur, Styria, Austria Small brassy Marcasite crystals on calcite matrix 25p 1
BB854 OLIVENITE - Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Black Forest, Germany Green Olivenite crystals in various forms in quartz/barytes matrix 25p 5
BB860 PHILLIPSITE - Laz Hill, Uzsabanya, Veszprem Co., Hungary Small colourless Phillipsite crystals in cavities in matrix 25p 1
BB905 SIDERITE & PYRITE - Sulitjelma, Fauske, Norway Small brown rhombohedral Siderite crystals in cavities in modified Pyrite crystals 25p 2
BB914 SPHENE & ALBITE - Solumsasen Quarry, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway Pale brown Sphene crystals and small creamy to colourless Albite crystals in gas cavities in matrix SOLD .
BB918 STILPNOMELANE - Landsverk 1, Landsverk, Evje og Hornes, Agder, Norway Bronzey coloured micaceous Stilpnomelane on and in cavities in feldspar matrix 25p 1
BB933 TRIDYMITE - Vechec Quarry, Eastern Slanske Mountains, Presov Region, Slovakia Brownish (iron staining) hexagonal platy Tridymite crystals in andesite matrix 25p 1
Europe - Eifel
BB959 AMPHIBOLE - Nickenicher, Nickenich, Eifel, Germany Orange acicular Amphibole crystals in cavities in matrix 25p 11
BB960 AMPHIBOLE & HAEMATITE - Nickenicher, Nickenich, Eifel, Germany Orange acicular Amphibole crystals with small shiny black Haematite crystals in cavities in matrix 25p 2
BB992 PHLOGOPITE, SELLAITE & LEUCITE - Emmelberg, Udersdorf, Daun, Eifel, Germany Wafer thin brown Phlogopite crystals with glass clear "rods" and "tubes" of Sellaite and clear to whitish rounded Leucite crystals in matrix 25p 2
BB1002 PSEUDOBROOKITE, HAEMATITE & PYROXENE - Emmelberg, Udersdorf, Daun, Eifel, Germany Small dark brownish black bladed Pseudobrookite crystals with black shiny Haematite crystals and small orange Pyroxene crystals in cavities in matrix SOLD .
Collection Thinnings
. None currently available . . .
ThumbnailsCornwall & Devon
BBT23 DOLOMITE & TALC - Pentreath Beach, Landewednack, Cornwall, England Pinkish rhombohedral Dolomite crystals with creamy coloured Talc in cavities in dolomite matrix 50p 1
Cumberland & Westmorland
BBT46 ADAMITE - Sandbed Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Minute pale green Adamite crystals in cavities in quartz matrix SOLD .
BBT57 HEMIMORPHITE - Hartley Birkett, Kirkby Stephen, Cumberland, England Sprays of clear bladed Hemimorphite crystals lining cavities in matrix. Ex Colin Robinson specimen 50p 1
BBT62 PYROMORPHITE - Mexico Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Cavities in quartz matrix lined wined with pale green hexagonal Pyromorphite crystals 50p 5
BBT63 PYROMORPHITE - Saddleback Old Mine, Blencathra, Cumberland, England White to green, hexagonal to acicular Pyromorphite crystals in cavities and on quartz matrix SOLD .
Rest of England
BBT93 SMITHSONITE - Stang Mine, Barnard Castle, North Yorkshire, England Small pale brown Smithsonite xtls in cavities in matrix 50p 4
Wales
BBT99 MILLERITE - Esgair Fraith Mine, Talybont, Cardiganshire, Wales Brassy acicular Millerite crystals mostly embedded in but occaisionally protruding from quartz matrix +/- chalcopyrite, sphalerite 50p 1
Scotland
BBT117 PREHNITE - Loanhead Quarry, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland Aggregates of grey-green Prehnite spheres, no matrix. Ugly but interesting nonetheless 50p 1
BBT126 VISHNEVITE - Allt a'Mhullin, Loch Borollan, Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland White massive Vishnevite embedded in matrix �3.00 4
Ireland - North & South
BBT129 ARSENOPYRITE - Dhurode, Mizen Peninsula, Co. Cork, Ireland Silvery rhombic Arsenopyrite crystalsembedded in and protruding from quartz matrix 50p 2
BBT135 STRONTIANITE - Castlebar (Moneen) Quarry, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland Sprays of clear spiky Strontianite xtls in cavities in Calcite on limestone matrix 50p 2
America - North & South
BBT172 DESCLOIZITE - Finch Mine, Gila Co., Arizona, USA Rounded aggregates of reddish brown Descloizite covered with an orange brown oxidised crust on matrix SOLD .
BBT189 STILPNOMELANE - Laytonville Quarry, Laytonville, Mendocino Co., California, USA Reddish brown micaceous Stilpnomelane shot through matrix SOLD .
Asia/Australasia including Turkey
BBT209 PLUMBOGUMMITE epimorphs after PYROMORPHITE - Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo Co., Guangxi Zhuang, China Drusy aggregates of minute greyish blue Plumbogummite crystals or forming epimorphs after Pyromorphite crystals on matrix SOLD .
Europe including Russia
BBT237 FERRI-ALLANITE & ACTINOLITE/TREMOLITE - Bastnas Mines, Riddarhytten, Vastmanland, Sweden Very dark brown resinous Ferri-Allanite with pale to dark green fibrous Actinolite/Tremolite forming the whole of the specimens SOLD .
Europe - The Eifel Region
BB2702 PHLOGOPITE, SELLAITE & LEUCITE - Emmelberg, Udersdorf, Daun, Eifel, Germany Wafer thin brown Phlogopite crystals with colourless to white Sellaite crystals some of which are hollow and clear to whitish rounded Leucite crystals in cavities in matrix 50p 1
BBT307 SELLAITE, LEUCITE & PHLOGOPITE - Emmelberg, Udersdorf, Daun, Eifel, Germany Glass clear "rods" and "tubes" of Sellaite and clear to whitish rounded Leucite crystals, wafer thin brown Phlogopite crystals in cavities in matrix 50p 2
Minerals from SmeltersCornwall & Devon Smelters
BB1031 HALITE - Gannel Smelter, Crantock, Cornwall, England Small clear to white cubic Halite crystals in cavities in smelter slag 25p 1
Northern England Smelters
. None currently available . . .
Scottish and Welsh Smelters
BB1049 CUPRITE - Aberavon, Neath/Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales Tiny red octahedral Cuprite crystals in cavities in smelter slag SOLD .
BB1050 CUPRITE & ARAGONITE - Aberavon, Neath/Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales Tiny red octahedral Cuprite crystals sprays of white or pale blue acicular Aragonite crystals in cavities in smelter slag SOLD .
Unknown Locations
BB2722 VIVIANITE - ?? Deep bluish black Elongated Vivianite crystals, no matrix 25p 1
Unknown Locations - Thumbnails
BB2721 BORNITE - ?? Piece of "Horseflesh" Ore, no matrix 50p 1