CODE | NAME | RICHARD TAYLER MINERALS www.richardtayler.co.uk | Mineral Specimens for sale | sizes | are in centimetres | . | List updated December 2024 |
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441 | MAGNESIOGEDRITE | Rich black radiating fibres in pink matrix | Schisshyttan, Sweden | 2.5 £5 | 2.5x5 £10 | ||
260 | MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE | Black crystal sections in schist | Kopparberg Sweden | 2.5 £2.50 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | |
1103 | MAGNESITE | White rhombic cleavages, with minor yellow Serpentine. | Snarum, Vikersund Norway | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | 5x7 £15 |
264 | MAGNESITE | variety BREUNNERITE. Brownish rhombic 2 to 3mm crystals in chlorite schist | Altermark, Mo-I-Rana, N.W.Norway | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | |
251 | MAGNESITE | Pure white amorphous mass. Formed from metamorphosed Peridotite | Euboea Greece | 2.5x5 £1 | 5x5 £2 | 5x7 £4 | |
248 | MAGNESITE | Pure rhombic colourless cleavages or intergrown crystals.. | Brumado,Bahia,Brazil | 2.5x1.5 £10 | 2.5 £18 | 2.5x5 £40 | |
1147 | MAGNETITE | pure dark grey slightly granular mass | Brastad, South Norway | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | |
277 | MAGNETITE | Rich grey metallic mass with possible quartz and minor sulphides | Coniston Cumbria | 2.5x5 £1 | 5x5 £2 | 5x7 £3 | |
1360 | MAGNETITE | the Lodestone variety; Larger pieces will pick up small pins | USA | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | |
266 | MALACHITE | Green masses with rock | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | ||
482 | MALACHITE | pure green mass | Katanga Congo | 2.5x1.5 £2.50 | 2.5 £5 | 2.5x5 £9 | |
181 | MANANDONITE | Botryoidal greyish with a crystallised surface, on matrix | Manandona Valley, Antananarivo, Madagascar | 2.5 x1.5 £7.50 | 2.5 £15 | ||
227 | MANGANESE NODULE | Black-brown part section showing the interior .Light for a manganese mineral | 6000 metres depth, Marquesas area, Pacific Ocean | 1.5 x 1.5 £3 | |||
265 | MANGANITE | Grey massive with a crystallised surface | Black Jack Mine,Pima County ,Arizona | 2.5 £3 | |||
262 | MANGANITE | Rich black fibrous or radiating in matrix | Bolet Vastergotsland Sweden | 2.5 £2.50 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | |
1344 | MANGANITE | Black exposed veins on matrix, quite good coverage with possible crystals | Ontario Canada | 2.5x1.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | |
120 | MANGANOGRUNERITE | (Was DANNEMORITE ) Pure pale brown fibrous mass | Brunsjogruvan Hallefors, Sweden | 2.5 £2.50 | 2.5 x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | 5x7 £18 |
263 | MANGANOPHYLLITE | A manganoan Biotite Mica. Pure brown mass of small flakes | Langban Wermland Sweden | 2.5x5 £1 | 5x5 £2 | 5x7 £4 | |
465 | MARICOPAITE | white acicular micros and radiations on matrix. One of the new ZEOLITES | Moon Anchor Mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. USA | 5mm £2 | 1cm £4 | ||
267 | MELANITE | Black masses 2 to 3mm across in grey syenite. | Loch Borrolan Scotland | 2.5x5 £1.50 | 5x5 £3 | ||
1019 | MELANOTEKITE | Grey grains and masses in garnet-manganophyllite | Langban, Wermland, Sweden | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £7 | ||
269 | MENDIPITE | Rich white to pinkish faintly fibrous masses in calcite or with Pyrolusite | Merehead Quarry, Mendips Somerset | 1.5 x 1.5 £5 | |||
270 | METAVARISCITE | 1mm botryoidal greenish on matrix | Azcarate Quarry Eugui, Navarre Spain | 1cm £6 | 2cm £10 | ||
452 | MICROCLINE | variety AMAZONITE, good blue-green cleavages. | Landsverk, Evje,Norway | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | |
273 | MICROCLINE | pure pink cleavages | Various locations | 2.5x5 £1 | 5x5 £2 | 5x7 £3 | |
769 | MOLYBDENITE | Obvious grey coating on quartz with Chalcopyrite | Ray Mine, Arizona, USA | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | ||
1377 | MOLYBDENITE | quite rich silvery on quartz/ rock | no details | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £12 | 5x7 £18 | |
1175 | MOLYBDENITE | fairly rich grey mass on gneiss | Knaben Mine Vest Agder Norway | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £15 | 5x7 £23 |
1367 | MOLYBDENITE | Silvery masses with some matrix a) 8mm b)15mm c)2cm +more matrix | No location details | a) £6 | b) £9 | c) £15 | |
1135 | MOLYBDOSCHEELITE | white areas in skarn. Fluorescent short wave white, much paler then normal , | Elgfall Sweden | 2.5 £5 | 2.5x5 £8 | ||
280 | MONTEBRASITE | Pure white cleavable masses | Varutrask, North Sweden | 2.5x5 £2 | 5x5 £4 | 5x7 £6 | |
982 | MONTMORILLONITE | CHROMIUM . Green flakes in gneiss with sillimanite and or ruby-corundum | Froland near Arendal, Norway | 2.5x1.5 £3 | 2.5 £6 | ||
259 | MONTMORILLONITE | Calcium rich variety. Pure white masses from the Bidahochi formation. | Near Saunders, Arizona U.S.A | 1.5 £5 | |||
283 | MORDENITE | Creamy white, water worn nodule | Harbourville, Nova Scotia, Canada | 6 mm £2.50 | 12 mm £5 | ||
288 | MORDENITE | white mat like on rock, some with Quartz | New Water Mts. Eagle Eye, La Paz Co.,Arizona | 1 x 1.5 £5 | 2.5 x5 £15 | ||
1139 | MUSCOVITE | golden muscovite/ mauve Lepidolite. Attractive plate with two colours | /LEPIDOLITE. Hoydalen, Tordal, Norway | 5x2.5 £4 | 5x5 £6 | 5x7 £8 | |
750 | MUSCOVITE | pure silvery plate | Various | 2.5x5 70p | 5x5 £1.50 | 5x7 £3 | |
490 | MUSCOVITE | Thin, transparent plate, some with inclusions | no details | 5x5 £3 | 7x7 £6 | 10x 10 £8 | |
291 | MUSCOVITE | Dark green amorphous, quite unusual form .Once known as 'Selwynite' | Heathcote,Victoria,Australia | 2.5 £1.50 | 2.5x5 £3 | ||
306 | MUSCOVITE | single crystal or part crystal | Near Shelby, Cleveland Co.North Carolina, USA | 2.5x1.5 £2 | 2.5 £4 | ||
1315 | MUSCOVITE | Thin transparent fawn plate with cut edges | Brazil | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £6 | ||
290 | MUSCOVITE | variety SERICITE . Grey-creamy rich fine grained silky mass with Pyrite spots | Prince Edward Mine, Gwynedd, North Wales | 2.5 £5 | 2.5x5 £10 | 5x5 £20 | |
1134 | MUSCOVITE | curved crystal sections, parts of hemi-spheres | Hoydalen, Tordal, Telemark Norway | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | 5x7 £12 | |
177 | NACRITE | small creamy hexagonal crystals in a 4 mm area on larger matrix | Black Forest, Germany | 2.5 £5 | |||
913 | NATIVE BISMUTH | Stream worn pure metallic nodule | Rio Vilaque, La Paz Bolivia | 4 mm £6 | |||
1372 | NATIVE COPPER | tarnished masses, larger ones with some matrix | no location details | 1.5 £ 2.50 | 2.5 £4 | 2.5 x5 £8 | |
1177 | NATIVE COPPER | Small blebs, free standing from and in grey Quartzite | Dalane near Kviteseid, Telemark, Norway | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £10 | ||
103 | NATIVE COPPER | Pure copper coloured masses | Keweenaw peninsula Michigan | 2cm £1.50 | 2x5 £8 | ||
198 | NATROALUNITE | pure white slightly fibrous mass. | Marysville,Utah,USA | 1.5 £4 | 2.5 x1.5 £6 | ||
298 | NATROJAROSITE | Rich yellow masses on hard clay matrix. It's a little friable. (sent in plastic box) | Mersea Island, Essex, England | 2.5 £2.50 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £9 | 5x7 £14 |
295 | NATROLITE | Rich red mass in feldspar. | Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £15 | |
297 | NATROLITE | Pure white fibrous vein section | Dean Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | ||
294 | NATROLITE | Good coverage of creamy fibrous mass on basalt | Monte Lake, Kamloops BC Canada | 2cm £6 | |||
296 | NATROLITE | Rich creamy masses with possible minor boehmite or diaspore | Saga Quarry, Tvedalen Norway | 2.5 £1.50 | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £6 | |
258 | NEOTOCITE | Rich resinous dark brown with a little rock matrix | Monte Nero Mine Liguria Italy | 2.5 £9 | |||
299 | NEPHELINE | grey massive , fairly pure | Davis Hill near Bancroft Ontario Canada | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £7 | 5x5 £15 | |
303 | NICCOLITE | Rich reddish metallic mass in matrix | Cobalt Ontario Canada | 1.5 £4 | 2.5 £6 | ||
312 | OKENITE | White acicular 'puffballs' on matrix. | Bombay India | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £15 | |
472 | OLIGOCLASE | white feldspar cleavage pieces | Mitchell county North Carolina U.S.A | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | ||
323 | OLIGOCLASE | Rich creamy massive | Gudvangen Norway | 2.5x5 £1.50 | 5x5 £3 | 5x7 £6 | |
1048 | OLIGOCLASE | Variety "Sunstone" pinkish cleavages masses showing the schiller effect | Dordal, south Norway | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £9 | |
538 | OLIVENITE | acicular green micros on and in quartz | Wheal Gorland, St Day,Cornwall | 2.5 x 1.5 £4 | |||
1010 | OLIVINE | FORSTERITE Rich fine grained pale green masses | Tafjord Norway | 2.5 £1.50 | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £5 | 5x7 £7.50 |
310 | OLIVINE | FORSTERITE, pale green translucent part of crystal a) 4mm b) about 8mm | Manshera District. Pakistan | a) £3 | b) £6 | ||
1327 | OLIVINE | green granular mass | Lanzarote, Canary Islands | 1.5 £4 | 2.5 £6 | 2.5x5 £9 | 5x5 £18 |
1162 | OLIVINE | FORSTERITE Pure greenish granular bomb sections | Haute Loire Central France | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | 5x7 £12 |
335 | OPAL | CT form .Creamy white massive. Analysis shows it contains crystalline Cristobalite, | no location details | 2.5 £5 | 2.5 x5 £10 | 5x5 £20 | 5x7 £30 |
1348 | OPAL | blue-to-green 2mm vein in ironstone, most with one cut surface . | Queensland Australia | 1cm £3 | |||
458 | OPAL | (CT form) pure orange brown to creamy mass | Kurdjaly,Rhodope Mountain,Bulgaria | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £12 | 5x7 £18 |
326 | OPAL | (CT form) Red-brown mass, known as "meat opal" | Herl'any, Slanske Mts, east Slovakia | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | ||
307 | ORTHOCLASE | Individual, twin, pinkish-brown crystal. around 2cm long | Rocozels, near Lodeve France | £4 | |||
1317 | ORTHOCLASE | Carlsbad twin crystal, good form pink. | Kopriva ,Kyustendil, Bulgaria | 1.5 £2 | 2.5 £3 | ||
1368 | ORTHOCLASE | pure white cleavage mass | Pakistan | 2.5 £5 | 2.5x5 £9 | 5x5 £18 | |
450 | OSUMULITE | Black micro crystals in cavities | Mckinzie Pass,Oregon, U.S.A | 1.5 x 1.5 £3 | |||
20 | OXOMAGNESIOHASTINGSITE | Intergrown small black crystals overall size around 1cm | Etna Volcano Sicily Italy, | £8 | |||
350 | PALYGORSKITE | Good coverage of white fibrous mass on a sedimentary rock. | Devon,England | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | 5x7 £12 |
319 | PECTOLITE | White fibrous, fairly rich in matrix , some with green garnet | Jeffrey mine Quebec, Canada | 1x 1.5 £2 | 2.5 £4 | ||
1352 | PECTOLITE | Rich white fibrous mass with some rock. | New Jersey U.S.A | 2.5 £5 | 2.5x5 £8 | ||
321 | PECTOLITE | Pure white slightly fibrous mass | Lendalfoot, Givan, Ayr, Scotland | 2.5 x3 £4 | |||
324 | PETALITE | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £5 | 5x7 £8 | |||
1318 | PETALITE | 2-3mm pink cleavages, quite rich in Aplite | Meldon Aplite Quarry, near Okehampton ,Devon | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £15 | |
324 | PETALITE | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £5 | 5x7 £8 | |||
324 | PETALITE | Pure grey cleavable mass | Varutrask, Sweden | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £5 | 5x7 £8 | |
736 | PHILLIPSITE | Good coverage of white micro crystals on Basalt | La Carriere de la Vierge, Espalion, France | 1.5 £5 | 2.5x1.5 £10 | ||
332 | PHILLIPSITE | Clear micro crystals on Basalt, about 1cm . | Famara Risco, Lanzarote, Canary Islands | 1cm £5 | |||
317 | PHLOGOPITE | pure thin silvery plate | Silver Queen Mine, near Perth, Ontario | 2.5 £1.50 | 2.5x5 £3 | ||
329 | PIEMONTITE | Rich purple masses or crystal sections in quartz | St Marcel, Piedmont, Italy | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £5.50 | 5x5 £10 | 5x7 £15 |
1005 | PINAKIOLITE | Tiny black blades scattered over dolomite-calcite matrix. Typical material | Langban,Wermland Sweden. Type Location | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £6 | ||
1076 | PLANCHEITE | Pure pale blue fibrous vein about 3mm thick, With no matrix! | Kalabi, Katanga ,Congo | 1.5 £4 | 2.5x1.5 £8 | ||
327 | PLASMA | green variety of silica, green masses (Bloodstone without the spots) | Madagascar | 2.5x5 £2 | 5x5 £4 | 5x7 £8 | |
341 | PLUMBOGUMMITE | pale blue coating on pyromorphite crystals | Guangxi area China | 1cm £6 | |||
316 | POLLUCITE | rich glassy massive | various locations | 2.5 £6 | 2.5x5 £12 | 5x5 £25 | |
337 | POVONDRAITE | Quite good coverage of 1mm black crystals on matrix | Alto Chapare district, Cochamba dept Bolivia | 1x 1.5 £6 | 2.5 £12 | ||
759 | POWELLITE | Pure orange cleavage mass, Fluorescent yellow Ca Mo O | Nasik India | 5mm £5 | |||
1049 | PREHNITE | Pale green botryoidal on Basalt | Boyleston Quarry, Barrhead, South of Glasgow. | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £12 | |
333 | PREHNITE | Pure light yellow-green massive | Boyleston Quarry, Barrhead,Scotland | 1 x 1.5 £1 | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 |
13 | PRICEITE | Pure white massive | Sultanchayir, Turkey | 2.5 £4.50 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £15 | |
328 | PRISMATINE | dark grey mass in pale feldspar | Stakholmen, Halsingland, Sweden | 1.5 £4 | 2.5x1.5 £6 | 2.5 £10 | 2.5x5 £18 |
322 | PROBERTITE | grey-white radiations on shale | Boron Pit California U.S.A | 2.5 £5 | |||
325 | PSEUDOMALACHITE | Green veins and coatings on and in quartz. | Wheal Phoenix, Cornwall | 1x 1.5 £2 | 2.5 £4 | ||
1112 | PURPURITE | Rich brown to mauve cleavage mass | Erongo Region Namibia |
2.5cm £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £16 | 5x7 £25 |
331 | PYRARGYRITE | Rich red-grey mass with Barytes. Cut pieces a] 1x1cm b) 2x2cm | No location | a) £5 | b) £10 | ||
1047 | PYRITE | Somewhat rounded single crystal | Sulitjelma, Nordland Norway | 5mm £2 | 1cm £4 | ||
1074 | PYRITE | Pure solid massive or crystallised mass | Various locations | 2.5 £1.50 | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £6 | 5x7 £8 |
580 | PYRITE | obvious massive in matrix | Various | 2.5 70p | 2.5x5 £1.40 | 5x5 £3 | 5x7 £4 |
1113 | PYRITE | Pyritohedral single crystal section or small group | Elba Italy | 2.5x1.5 £2.50 | 2.5 £4 | ||
1326 | PYRITE | single sharp cube about 1cm | Navajun, La Rioja Spain | £3 | |||
633 | PYRITE | crystallised surface, hexagonal looking, on pyrite. X 10 to see the detail | Chibaugamau,Quebec,Canada | 2.5 £3 | |||
1342 | PYROLUSITE | pure grey massive | Australia | 2.5 £1.50 | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £6 | 5x7 £9 |
351 | PYROLUSITE | Rich mass of acicular crystals on matrix | Mistake Mine, Yavapai County Arizona | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | ||
1093 | PYROMORPHITE | Dark green micro crystals, on pale yellow quartz xls or Fluorite. | Einbuch,Black Forest,Germany | 1x 1.5 £4 | |||
339 | PYROMORPHITE | Small yellow hexagonal crystals on quartz . Reference pieces only. | Roughton Gill Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria | 1x 1 £1.50 | 2.5x5 £3 | ||
254 | PYROMORPHITE | Rich yellow massive, minor limonite matrix. | Yangshuo, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi, China | 1.5 £6 | 2.5x1.5 £10 | ||
454 | PYROMORPHITE | Good coverage of dark green micro crystals on matrix | Burgam Mine, Shelve, Shropshire | 2.5x1.5 £3 | 2.5 £5 | 2.5x5 £8 | |
1013 | PYROPHYLLITE | Creamy mass with black platy hematite. | Vastana Iron Mine, Skane, Sweden | 2.5 £1.50 | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £6 | |
340 | PYROPHYLLITE | Excellent rich creamy radiating mass. | Graves Mountain. Lincoln County, Georgia, U.S.A | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £15 | |
987 | PYRRHOTITE | rich metallic mass with small areas of rock through out. | Craig Mine, Sudbury, Ontario Cnada | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | ||
486 | PYRRHOTITE | Rich metallic mass | Cwm Dwyffor Mine, Pennant Valley , Gwynedd | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £15 | |
1192 | PYRRHOTITE | quite rich metallic mass with possible other sulphides | no location details | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | 5x7 £12 | |
343 | PYRRHOTITE | Very rich, metallic mass . Possibly with minor spots of other minerals | Norway | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | 5x7 £15 | |
1116 | QUARTZ | Transparent terminated crystal with a pleasing red tinge 3cm long | Kragero Norway , collected some 20 years ago. | £6 | |||
1349 | QUARTZ | Pure translucent to clear glassy mass. | no details | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £12 | 5x7 £18 |
591 | QUARTZ | Good coverage of free standing crystals on matrix. | Various locations | 2.5 £1.50 | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £5 | 5x7 £6 |
922 | QUARTZ | Transparent single terminated crystal 3.5cm | Minas Gerais Brazil | £5 | |||
1350 | QUARTZ | pale smoky, clear to translucent glassy | no details | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £15 | |
496 | QUARTZ | single colourless crystal, for educational use about 1 inch long | various locations | £1.20 | |||
818 | QUARTZ beta | Small hexagonal grey bipyramidal Crystal section , (pseudomorph of quartz after beta quartz) | Belowda Beacon ,Cornwall | £4 | 3 for £8 | ||
342 | RAMSDELLITE | Black crystals on rock which, if analysed ,would be partly Pyrolusite. | Mistake Mine,Yavapai County,Arizona | 2.5 £4 | |||
334 | RHODIZITE | Single pale yellow crystal | Ibity, Antsirabe, Madagascar | 2.5mm £4 | 5mm £10 | ||
1030 | RHODOCHROSITE | Pink banded and massive in matrix | Catamarca Province, Argentina | 2.5 £5 | 2.5x5 £9 | ||
545 | RHODONITE | Pinkish - grey massive with possible Pyrolusite. | Treburland Mine, Bodmin, Cornwall | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | ||
1302 | RHODONITE | rich mass of small red cleavages with Galena | Broken Hill, New South Wales Australia | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £12 | 5x7 £20 |
971 | RICHTERITE | Pure, orange-brown mass | Langban, Wermland, Sweden. The Type Location | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £12 | |
1138 | ROMANCHEITE | Rich grey-black coating on quartz, possible minor campylite | Dry Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | 5x7 £10 |
1186 | RUTILE | pure water worn pebble, grey outside, reddish inside. | Madagascar ? | 1cm £5 | |||
1014 | RUTILE | rich brown mass | No location detaiuls | 1x 1.5 £4 | 2.5 £8 | 2.5x2.5 £12 | |
903 | RUTILE | Select , lustrous single red-brown terminated crystal about 3mm across | Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil | 1.5cm £6 | |||
377 | RUTILE | Dark brown crystallised mass about 1cm size | Magnet Cove, Arkansas, USA | 1cm £2 | |||
817 | RUTILE | 5mm long, red-brown striated crystal section | Brazil or N.Carolina | 5mm £1.50 | |||
1006 | SALITE | Variety of DIOPSIDE, excellent pale green showing strong cleavage | Sala, Vasteras,Vastmanland, Sweden | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | |
386 | SANEROITE | obvious orange crystalline in matrix. | Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia, Liguria Italy | 1.5x2 £8 | 3x2 £18 | ||
662 | SANIDINE | 2 cm , greyish-fawn crystal section displayed on rock | Pic de Courlande, Puy de Dome, France | £7 | |||
437 | SANIDINE | pure translucent pale cleavage, | Volkesfeld, Eifel, germany | 1cm £6 | |||
371 | SAPPHIRINE | blue granular in schist type matrix, not all that rich | Betroka area Madagascar | 2.5x1.5 £4 | 2.5 £6 | ||
1336 | SCAPOLITE | rich intergrown pink cleavages | Massachusetts USA | 2.5 £6 | 2.5x5 £10 | 5x5 £20 | |
636 | SCAPOLITE | single creamy coloured crystal about 2cm long.no termination | Otter lake, Quebec, Canada | £6 | |||
365 | SCAPOLITE | Variety MARIALITE. Rich pale buff massive in matrix | Sondeled South Norway | 2.5 £2.50 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £7 | |
645 | SCHEELITE | Quite rich brownish in rock or quartz, Good Blue with short wave U.V. | Carrock Mine Cumbria | 2.5 £3.50 | 2.5x5 £7 | ||
1316 | SCHEELITE | Pure pale brown massive. FLUORESCENT Short Wave blue | Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria | 2.5x1.5 £4 | 2.5 £8 | 2.5x5 £16 | |
1124 | SCHEFFERITE | This is a Manganoan Diopside, Rich brown masses in matrix Type Location | Langban, Wermland, Sweden | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £16 | |
1322 | SCHORLOMITE | Rich brown massive | Magnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas, USA | 2.5 £5 | 2.5x5 £10 | ||
1158 | SCORODITE | very rich pale green massive, no location details. | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £6 | 5x7 £10 | ||
1132 | SCORODITE | Green massive with quartz and brown Carminite 1.5 cm £2 | Gold Hill Mine, Toole Co Utah | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £15 | 5x7 £24 |
549 | SCORODITE | Blue-green micro to mm size crystals in cavities and on matrix | Hemerdon Mine near Plymouth Devon | 1.5 x 1.5 £4 | 2.5 x5 £8 | ||
1018 | SCORZALITE | Dark blue in Kyanite Quartzite | Horrsjoberg, Wermland, Sweden | 1cm £4 | 1x2cm £7 | ||
471 | SEPIOLITE | light weight white massive (Meerschaum) | Sepetci South east of Eskisehir, Turkey | 2.5 £6 | 2.5x5 £12 | 5x5 £25 | |
698 | SERANDITE | fawn-pale pink mass in matrix with Aegirine crystal sections | St Hilaire, Quebec,Canada | 2.5 £5 | |||
364 | SHORTITE | yellow crystal sections in shale. | Green River, Sweet Water Co. Wyoming, U.S.A |
1x 1.5 £3 | 2.5 £5 | ||
577 | SIDERITE | Small brown crystals ( some micros) in cavities in white quartz | Redmoor Mine, Kelly Bray, Cornwall | 1.5 x 1.5 £1.50 | 2.5 3.00 | ||
369 | SIDERITE | Rich mass of small dark brown crystals in vughs in Siderite | Devon Great Consols Mine Devon | 2.5 £1 | 2.5x5 £2 | 5x5 £4 | |
932 | SIDERITE | Red-brown mass of cleavages , some with quartz or black chlorite. | Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | 5x7 £15 | |
1179 | SILLIMANITE | rich grey mass, at X10 it is intergrown fibrous | No Location details | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £12 | |
381 | SKUTTERUDITE | Rich silvery mass in matrix | Bou Azzer Morocco | 2.5 £4.50 | 2.5x5 £9 | 5x5 £18 | 5x7 £27 |
374 | SMITHSONITE | rich yellow and grey massive Partially botryoidal. Colour due to .57 % Cadmium | Shesodonnel, County Clare,Ireland | 2.5 £1 | 2.5x5 £2 | 5x5 £4 | |
1100 | SODALITE | Large orange fluorescent areas in Syenite (long wave) | Tvedalen, Larvik Norway | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £16 | 5x7 £25 |
1052 | SODALITE | Rich blue cleavages with feldspar | Minas Gerais Brazil | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £6 | 5x7 £10 | |
649 | SODALITE | Rich grey masses . Orange with Long Wave U.V. Na Al SiO Cl | Ste Hilaire Quebec Canada | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £6 | ||
1334 | SPESSARTINE | Orange brown, etched looking , translucent pure crystallised mass. Larger are darker | Navegadora Mine ,Doce Valley, MG Brazil | 1.5 £10 | 2.5x1.5 £15 | ||
771 | SPHALERITE | richer dark brown veins/masses with matrix | Various locations | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | |
697 | SPHALERITE | Small black crystals on matrix | various locations | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £15 | |
360 | SPHALERITE | Dark brown mass in matrix | various locations | 2.5x5 £1 | 5x5 £2.50 | ||
827 | SPINEL | Slightly water-worn and not complete , single pink translucent octahedron. | Sri Lanka | 2mm £3 | |||
1373 | SPINEL | Dark pink crystal section about 8mm | Mogok Burma | £5 | |||
459 | SPINEL | 4mm crystals and masses , like small blackberries ,on Diopside crystals. | Madagascar | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | ||
376 | SPINEL | black octahedral micro crystals/sections on and in feldspar. Unusual for G.B | Loch Scridain, Mull, Scotland | 1.5 " £3 | 2.5x1.5 £5 | 2.5 £8 | |
460 | SPODUMENE | HIDDENITE variety .Pure translucent yellow-green cleavage | Minas Gerais, Brazil | 1cm £3 | |||
1126 | SPODUMENE | Rich pale grey-brown cleavage mass with inclusions of pink Tourmaline | Haapaluoma Finland | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £10 | 5x7 £15 |
384 | SPODUMENE | Grey green cleavages in Pegmatite, quite rich | Uto Island, Sweden .The Type Location | 2.5x5 £2.50 | 5x5 £5 | ||
395 | STAUROLITE | Brown single crystal | Baud, Brittany, France | 1.5 80p | 1" £1.20 | ||
1183 | STELLERITE | Approx 3mm creamy crystals scattered over matrix, possible quartz or Fluorite | Gibelbach Fiesch Switzerland | 2.5cm £6 | 2x4 £10 | ||
1027 | STIBICONITE | Elongated crystals on matrix (Pseudomorphs after Stibnite) up to 7mm long | Zacatecas mexico | 2.5 £4 | |||
1078 | STIBNITE | Massive, silvery mass in matrix Unusual for Stibnite | Su Suergiu Mine,Villasalto, Gerrei,Sardinia | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £10 | 5x7 £16 |
1366 | STIBNITE | Rich grey elongated crystallised mass only minor matrix | no details | 2.5x5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £15 | 5x7 £23 |
1375 | STIBNITE | pure silvery crystal section | no details | 1cm £4 | 2cm £8 | 3cm £12 | |
1095 | STICHTITE | obvious pink spots on yellow-green Serpentine | Bou Offroh, Morocco | 1.5 £3 | 2.5 £5 | ||
389 | STILBITE | obvious creamy crystals on basalt | Poona India | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £7 | 5x5 £10 | 5x7 £12 |
346 | STILBITE | Pure creamy cleavage mass | Skurr nam Boc Skye Scotland | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £7 | 5x5 £15 | |
1351 | STILBITE | pure creamy crystallised mass, only minor matrix | Maharashtra India | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £12 | 5x7 £18 |
448 | STILBITE | Pure creamy coloured sheafy cleavages | Strond Quarry, Bordoy, Faroe Islands | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £12 | ||
387 | STILBITE | good covering of micro crystals all over the top surface on rock. | Torosay, Mull,Scotland | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £3.50 | 5x5 £7 | |
864 | STILBITE | Unusual stalactitic thick mass of creamy micros on matrix. | Near Glen Dibidal, Skye,Scotland | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £14 | 5x7 £20 |
497 | STILPNOMELANE | Black crystalline vein in quartz and magnetite | Bonsor Mine,Coniston, Cumbria | 2.5 £3.50 | 2.5x5 £6 | ||
397 | STILPNOMELANE | quite rich metallic brown , bronze coating on quartz | Landsverk Evje Norway | 1.5 £2 | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £8 | |
392 | STILPNOMELANE | Rich black platy masses in matrix | Brunsjogruvan Hallefors Sweden | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | |
393 | STRONTIANITE | Pale brown to yellowish in Barytes. / Calcite Fluorescent creamy Long wave. | Strontian Scotland | 2.5 £4 | |||
394 | STRONTIANITE | pale green crystalline in Barytes or Calcite.The smaller ones are richer | Middleshop mine, Strontian Scotland | 1.5 x 1.5 £3 | 2.5 £6 | ||
366 | STRUNZITE | yellowish micro acicular crystals on rock | Gravel Hill Mine, Cornwall | 1.5 x 1.5 £4 | 2.5 x 1.5 £6 | ||
655 | STRUVITE | Brown individual crystal about 5mm size | Skipton Caves, Near Ballarat,Victoria,Australia | £4 | |||
1301 | STRUVITE | Crystal Section . White Newberyite on the outside , Struvite resinous brown inside. Type Location | Hamburg Germany | 5mm £6 | 1cm £12 | ||
625 | SULPHUR | Obvious yellow massive in matrix | various locations | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £6 | 5x7 £10 |
679 | SULPHUR | Small yellow crystals on matrix | various location | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | |
852 | SVABITE | Colourless in matrix, better seen with S.W. U.V. when it is orange. Apatite group | Langban Wermland Sweden | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £12 | 5x7 £18 |
461 | SZAIBELYITE | Pure white slightly fibrous masses. Piece about 1.5 mm thick | Dypingdals,Modum,Norway | 1x2 £4 | |||
449 | TACHARANITE | 2mm white spheres scattered over Phillipsite on Basalt. | La Carriere de la Vierge, Espalion, France | 1.5 £4 | 2.5x1.5 £7 | 2.5 £12 | |
400 | TALC | Pure yellow-grey mass. | Egypt | 2.5 £1 | 2.5x5 £2 | 5x5 £3.50 | 5x7 £5 |
1028 | TALC | greenish grey masses on white Dolomite cleavages. | Otta near Lom Norway | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £6 | 5x7 £10 | |
402 | TENNANTITE | Grey metallic veinlets in rock. | Gortdrum Tipperary S.Ireland | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £5 | ||
925 | TEPHROITE | Rich red-brown cleavages in matrix | Langban, Wermland,Sweden | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £6 | 5x7 £10 | |
552 | TEPHROITE | Small brown cleavages in pale Rhodonite | Treburland Mine, Bodmin,Cornwall | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £5 | ||
553 | TETRAHEDRITE | silvery areas in matrix. May contain a percentage of Silver. | Silver Vein Mine, St Winnow,Cornwall | 2.5 £1.50 | 2.5x5 £3 | ||
1069 | TETRAHEDRITE | Silvery mass in Siderite | Gunnislake Clitters Mine, Cornwall | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | ||
404 | THAUMASITE | Rich white exposed seams on matrix | Crestmore Quarry California USA | 2.5x1.5 £3 | 2.5 £6 | ||
1130 | THAUMASITE | Pure creamy-white massive, (crystalline with x 10) | Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Virginia USA | 2.5 £5 | 2.5x5 £10 | 5x5 £20 | |
423 | THOMSENOLITE | White massive with one or two small crystals | Ivigtut, Arsuk Fjord, Greenland | 1 x 1.5 £3.50 | 2.5 £5 | 2.5x5 £10 | |
432 | THOMSONITE | small white sheafy areas in vitreous dark green Diopside and rock | Loch Scridain Mull Scotland | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | ||
332 | THOMSONITE Ca | colourless botryoidal crystalline coating about 1.5mm thick - quite well covered | Pian del Foco Genoa Italy | 2x2 £5 | 3x2 £8 | ||
410 | TILASITE | pink massive with some Richterite | Langban Wermland Sweden | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | |
380 | TITANITE | Brown cleavages in green Diopside | Sondeled, South Norway | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | ||
430 | TITANITE | brown crystals and parts of xls , with green epidote on matrix | Imilchil Morocco | 2.5x1.5 £4 | 2.5 £6 | ||
1319 | TOPAZ | Clear to opaque single crystal | Marambainha , Minas Gerais, Brazil | 1.5 £7 | |||
1164 | TOPAZ | Pure white cleavage mass, with possible Lepidolite mica | Hoydalen Tordal Norway | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | 5x7 £16 | |
349 | TOPAZ | Pure clear, cleaved piece, like glass | Nigeria | 2.5 £4 | |||
475 | TOPAZ | Single golden, translucent crystal section (part of a crystal) |
Minas Gerais, Brazil | 1 cm £3 | |||
1354 | TOURMALINE | pure pink translucent cleavage | Brazil | 5mm £4 | 8mm £6 | ||
554 | TOURMALINE | Black Schorl rich crystalline mass with minor matrix | Cornwall | 2.5 £1.50 | 2.5x5 £2.50 | 5x5 £5 | 5x7 £7.50 |
1356 | TOURMALINE | Green translucent crystal section about 1cm | Brazil | £5 | |||
1045 | TOURMALINE | pure black mass, | no loctaion details | 1cm £3 | 1x2 £5 | 2x5 £8 | 5x5 £18 |
606 | TOURMALINE | single -- pure black crystal section a) about 1cm b) about 2cm | India | a) £3 | b) £6 | ||
415 | TREMOLITE | Creamy-white SINGLE crystal Probably a pseudomorph, | Antsirabe Madagascar | 2.5 x 1 £8 | |||
1362 | TREMOLITE | rich elongated columnar colourless crystals in matrix | New York State USA | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £10 | 5x7 £15 |
1012 | TREMOLITE | Attractive pale green fibrous mass | Gasgruvan,Persberg, Wermland, Sweden | 2.5x5 £3.50 | 5x5 £7 | ||
1146 | TREMOLITE | rich white elongated needles (up to 2cm) in dark green chlorite | Altermark, Mo-i-Rana, NW Norway | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | 5x7 £12 | 8x10 £20 |
420 | TRIDYMITE | 2mm hexagonal colourless crystals scattered over top of Andesite .Sparse. | Vechec , Slanske Mtns, Presov Slovakia | 1.5 £5 | 2.5 £8 | ||
413 | TRIPHYLITE | Pure fawn cleavable mass, most with light coating of Vivianite | Mangualde Beira Alta Portugal | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £7 | |
620 | TSCHERMAKITE | Rich black crystallised mass with minor Phlogopite | Odegardensverk, Bamble, Norway | 2.5 £6 | 2.5x5 £12 | 5x5 £25 | |
556 | TURQUOISE | Dull blue green massive in and on quartz | St Austell Cornwall | 2.5 £3 | |||
175 | UINTAHITE | Black glossy light weight, ( type of Asphalt) | Fort Duchesne Uintah County Utah USA | 1.5cm £6 | 3.5cm £10 | ||
124 | ULEXITE | White finely fibrous mass | Turkey -- no other details | 2.5 £1 | 2.5x5 £2 | 5x5 £4 | |
76 | ULEXITE | Pure fibrous white mass | Boron California U.S.A | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | |
1185 | UVAROVITE | One green massive area about 3mm in Diopside | Outokumpu , Eastern Finland | £6 | |||
1321 | VANADINITE | Unusual form , rich brown massive | Broken Hill, Kabwe, Zambia | 1.5 £5 | 2.5£10 | ||
421 | VANADINITE | Good coverage of small orange-brown crystals on matrix | Mibladen Morocco | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £7 | 5x5 £15 | |
578 | VARLAMOFFITE | Brownish yellow areas on matrix, quite obvious but not rich. | Hingston Quarry, Cornwall | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £3.50 | 5x5 £6 | |
583 | VARLAMOFFITE | Rich yellow-brown mass on matrix | Gunheath Pit, St Austell Cornwall | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £6 | ||
422 | VERMICULITE | pure pale brown plate like a mica | Kenya, no other info | 2.5 x5 £4 | 5x5 £10 | 5x7 £15 | |
425 | VERMICULITE | see also HYDROBIOTITE | |||||
308 | VERMICULITE | NICKLIAN,. Dark green platy masses. Tested material | Bulong, West Australia | 1.5 x 1.5 £2.50 | 2.5x1.5 £5 | ||
189 | VESUVIANITE | Brown masses in matrix | Val d' Aosta, Piedmont, Italy | 2.5 £2 | 2.5x5 £4 | ||
190 | VESUVIANITE | Pure light green crystalline mass | Jeffery Mine,Quebec, Canada | 1.5 x 1.5 £2 | |||
1308 | VESUVIANITE | Single brown-green,crystal section.Larger ones with some garnet | Sierra de Cruces Coahuila Mexico | 1.5 £4 | 2.5 £7 | 5cm £18 | |
378 | WAVELLITE | White crystalline mass in quartz breccia. Fluorescent green with short wave UV | Shanagolden, County Limerick, S,Ireland | 2.5 £4 | 2.5x5 £7 | ||
938 | WICKENBURGITE | Micro clear hexagonal crystals in about a 2.5 area on 2.5 x5 cm rock- X10 needed | Rat tail Claim, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA | £7.50 | |||
744 | WILLEMITE | Areas in calcite/franklinite/zincite. Fluorescent green L. Wave UV, better S.Wave | Franklin,New Jersey, USA | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | 5x7 £18 | |
493 | WILLEMITE | Rich covering of white micro crystals on Goethite. Fluorescent SW creamy | Preguica Mine , Serpa Portugal | 2.5 £5 | 5x7 £25 | ||
427 | WITHERITE | Pure grey-creamy massive, possible Barytes. A Poisonous mineral | Settlingstones Mine, Northumberland | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | 5x7 £10 | |
917 | WOLFRAM | obvious small cleavages in quartz with some Kaolin | Gunheath Pit ; St Austell Cornwall | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | 5x7 £12 | |
920 | WOLFRAM | rich black cleavages with some quartz or scheelite | Carrock Mine Cumbria. England | 1.5 x1 £5 | 2.5 £8 | ||
1059 | WOLFRAM | Good black massive or blades in quartz | no location details | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £12 | 5x7 £15 |
1378 | WOLFRAM | rich black cleavages or crystal sections | no location | 2.5 £6 | 2.5x5 £12 | ||
559 | WOLLASTONITE | Rich white fibrous mass in matrix | Meldon Okehampton Devon | 2.5x5 £4 | 5x5 £8 | 5x7 £12 | |
855 | WOLLASTONITE | Fairly rich 3 to 5mm cleavages in calcite. Good short wave yellow Fluorescence | Sterling Hill , New Jersey USA | 2.5 x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | 7x5 £18 | |
492 | WURTZITE 2H | Rich brown masses with matrix and or Zinkenite. | San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £5 | 5x5 £10 | |
1091 | YUGAWARALITE | Reference pieces, white crystallised on rock . B) 8mm pure xl sections. | Toishinden Shizouka prefecture Japan | 1x1.5 £10 | 2.5x2 £15 | B) £7 | |
434 | ZINCITE | Red with black Franklinite and Calcite | Franklin , New Jersey , U.S.A | 2.5 £5 | 2.5x5 £8 | 5x5 £20 | |
433 | ZINNWALDITE | Manganoan. Very small black plates in Granite | Glen Gairn,Scotland | 2.5 £1.50 | 2.5x5 £3 | 5x5 £6 | 5x7 £9 |
981 | ZINNWALDITE | Silvery elongated platy | Zinnwald, Erzebirge, Czech Republic | 2.5 £3 | 2.5x5 £5 | ||
941 | ZIRCON | Pure translucent brown cleavge about 8mm | No location details | £5 | |||
926 | ZOISITE | Elongated brown crystal sections about one inch long in clean grey-white Quartz | Zillertal, Austria | 2.5x5 £6 | 5x5 £12 | ||
439 | ZOISITE | Pure brown crystal section | Massachusetts, U.S.A | 1.5x1.5 £3 | 2.5x1.5 £6 |