Micromounts - Cumberland & Westmorland...........Updated 1 March 2025
2270 ADAMITE - Sandbed Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Crusts of tiny pale green Adamite crystals on the surface of gossan matrix 50p £1.00 1 1
2271 ANGLESITE - Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Colourless Anglesite crystals in a cavity in quartz/galena matrix £1.50p 1
1148 BARYTE - Silverband Mine, Dun Fell, Eden, Westmorland, England Aggregates of clear tabular Baryte crystals on a white baryte matrix £1.00 1
2272 BARYTE & FLUORITE - Shap Granite Quarry, Shap, Westmorland, England White to pink bladed Barytes crystals with pale mauve cubic Fluorite crystals in cavities in baryte matrix £1.00 1
2273 BAYLDONITE - Brandy Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Green botryoidal Balydonite in cavities in quartz gossan matrix. Ex Jill Goltz collection SOLD .
1768 BAYLDONITE - Low Pike Trial, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Areas of green Bayldonite on quartz matrix £1.00 1
1769 BAYLDONITE & MIMETITE - Low Pike Trial, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Areas of green Bayldonite with tiny white acicular crystals of Mimetite on matrix £1.50p 1
133 CALCITE - Lindal Moor Mine, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria (formerly Lancashire), England Whitish rhombohedral Calcite crystals lining cavities in gossan matrix +\- a little black feathery Pyrolusite £1.00 £1.50p 3 1
2274 CALCITE - Lindal Moor Mine, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria (formerly Lancashire), England Aggregate of whitish rhombohedral Calcite crystals on a small plate of matrix £1.00 1
1771 CALCITE - Ullcoats Mine, Egremont, Cumberland, England Aggregates of clear Calcite crystals, some doubly terminated in cavities in matrix £1.00 £1.50p 1 1
2275 CERUSSITE & MALACHITE - Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Clear Cerussite crystals with a spray of green Malachite crystals in a cavity in quartz matrix £1.00 1
1787 HEMIMORPHITE - Hartley Birkett, Kirkby Stephen, Cumberland, England Sprays of pale brown bladed Hemimorphite crystals throughout matrix. Ex Colin Robinson £1.00 1
2276 LEADHILLITE & CALEDONITE - Driggith Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Small colourless Leadhillite crystals with tiny blue Caledonite crystals in decomposing quartz/galena matrix SOLD .
1159 MALACHITE - Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Velvety green Malachite crystals in cavities in quartz gossan matrix £1.00 1
1160 MIMETITE - Arm 'o' Grain, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Aggregates of yellow spiky Mimetite crystals in cavities in quartz matrix £1.00 1
2277 MIMETITE - Arm 'o' Grain, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Small pale yellow hexagonal Mimetite crystals on quartz matrix £1.00 1
154 MIMETITE - Driggith Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Pale yellow to green Mimetite crystals in various forms in cavities in quartz matrix +/- pale yellow Bindheimite £1.00 £1.50p 1 1
1788 MIMETITE - Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Yellow to orange tabular to elongated often doubly-terminated Mimetite crystals on quartz matrix +/- Barytes £1.00 £1.50p 7 4
1789 MIMETITE - Low Pike Trial, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Pale yellowish green hexagonal Mimetite crystals on quartz matrix 50p £1.00 7 3
1161 MIMETITE variety CAMPYLITE - Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Classic orange Campylite crystals on quartz/pyrolusite matrix £1.00 4
2279 MIMETITE & BARYTES - Potts Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Small greenish-yellow hexagonal Mimetite crystals with colourless tabular Barytes crystals in cavities in quartz matrix £2.00 2
2280 MIMETITE & CERUSSITE - Silver Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Small yellow Mimetite crystals with white Cerussite crystals in a cavity in gossan matrix 50p 1
2281 MOTTRAMITE - Arm 'o' Grain, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Small to tiny black Mottramite crystals scattered over quartz matrix £1.00 2
2282 PHARMACOSIDERITE - Burdell Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Brownish green cubic Pharmacosiderite crystals on matrix 50p 1
162 PYROLUSITE & CALCITE - Lindal Moor Mine, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria (formerly Lancashire), England Dark grey matted Pyrolusite with a few black complex free-standing stalactites of minute Pyrolusite crystals on rhombic Calcite crystals on matrix £2.00 1
2283 PYROMORPHITE - Mexico Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Greenish yellow hexagonal Pyromorphite crystals with some Quartz mounted on a pedestal. Ex Peter Braithwaite specimen £1.50p 1
2284 PYROMORPHITE - Mexico Opencut, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Yellowish green hexagonal Pyromorphite crystals, no matrix £1.00 £1.50p £3.00 1 4 1
2285 ROSASITE - Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Small blusih green Rosasite spheres on gossan matrix £1.50p 1
2286 SCHEELITE - Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Solid piece of tan coloured crystalline Scheelite, no matrix. Good blue SW Fluorescence £2.00 1
2287 SCHEELITE & ARSENOPYRITE - Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Tan coloured crystalline Scheelite with silvery Arsenopyrite crystals embedded within. Blue SW fluorescence SOLD .
1803 SPHALERITE & QUARTZ - 12 Fm Level, Driggith Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Orange brown Sphalerite crystals on clear Quartz crystals in cavities in quartz matrix +/- Galena 50p £1.00 2 3
1804 SPHALERITE, GALENA & QUARTZ - 12 Fm Level, Driggith Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England Orange brown Sphalerite crystals with grey modified Galena crystals on clear Quartz crystals in cavities in quartz matrix SOLD .
1170 TETRAHEDRITE - Eagle Crag Mine, Grisedale, Westmorland, England Small dull grey tetrahedral Tetrahedrite crystals, bright and shiny where broken, in a cavity in quartz/tetrahdrite/galena matrix SOLD .