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29-DEC-2012

5 cm Galena cuboctahedron with quartz and sphalerite on ankerite-dolomite. Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor.

“Handsome Mea, or Small Cleugh Vein, one mile S. by W. of Nenthead; much Lead, principally in the Great Lime-stone. – One Horse Level, and a Crushing Machine. Occupied by the London Lead Company.”
Westgarth Forster, 1821, “A Treatise on a Section of the Strata from Newcastle to Cross Fell”, page 296.

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