West Cumbria Minerals

Marcasite twinned crystals, 2 cm across, No 14 Pit, Frizington Parks, Frizington, Cumbria.	6 cm specimen of Kidney-Pencil ore. York Shaft, Crowgarth Leaconfield Mine, Cleator Moor, Frizington, Cumbria. ex Brian Salmon.	Botryoidal hematite, 45 mm, No 6 Pit, New Parkside Iron Mine, Frizington, W Cumbria.	Specularite crystals to 5 mm showing irridescence on 6 cm matrix. ex Ray Clements collection. Collected during 1970s mining.	Specularite crystals to 5 mm showing irridescence on 6 cm matrix. ex Ray Clements collection. Collected during 1970s mining.
Hematite crystals to 1 cm on 55 mm matrix. Egremont, Cumbria.	7 cm specimen of specularite (lustrous crystals to 5 mm) and quartz (5 mm) from the Florence Mine, Cumbria.	A fine blue fluorite, maximum dimension 14 mm on 85 mm hematite matrix. Florence Mine, Cumbria, UK.	27 mm blue fluorite on 8 cm dolomite matrix, from the Florence Mine, Cumbria.	27 mm blue fluorite on 8 cm dolomite matrix, from the Florence Mine, Cumbria.
Fluorite, 15 mm cube on 4 cm matrix. Gutterby Pit Moor Row, Cumbria.	Transparent colourless calcite crystal (53 mm) showing steep scalenohedral faces, Egremont, Cumbria. 19th Century specimen.	A fine Victorian 45 mm calcite heart-shaped twin, Egremont, Cumberland. Ex Chas. W. Velte jr (1914-1987).	Calcite heart twin, Cumbria, 95 mm, a substantial and historic specimen. ex Jefferis (1892), ex Barstow, ex de Wit.	Striated termination of one member of 95 mm calcite twin.
14 cm group of calcite crystals to 3 cm, Egremont, Cumbria.	Calcite, lustrous transparent crystals to 25 mm in 85 mm group. Bigrigg Mine, Egremont, West Cumbria, England.	Dolomite with fluorite cube (55 mm specimen), Beckermet Mine, Cumbria.	Calcite crystals with hematite-stained phantoms, Bigrigg Mines, Egremont, Cumbria. Crystals to 2 cm in 85 mm group.	Calcite crystals with hematite-stained phantoms, Bigrigg Mines, Egremont, Cumbria. Crystals to 2 cm in 85 mm group.
Bigrigg calcite 3 cm.	45 mm calcite prism, Egremont, Cumbria with 19th Century label. Originally attached to hematite at the base.	Aragonite crystals in 65 mm group. Egremont, Cumbria.	Single aragonite crystal on matrix. Pit 14, Frizington Parks, Frizington, Cumbria.	Cerussite twin, ca 3 mm across on 2 cm matrix. Kinniside Mine, Cleator Moor, Cumbria.
Barite, glassy pale blue crystal, from Frizington, Cumbria, 45mm. ex Ilse Wilke collection.	Barite, a very beautiful 6cm doubly terminated and lustrous crystal from Frizington, Cumbria.	Golden prismatic barite, 11.5 cm, Frizington, probably Parkside Mine.	Golden prismatic barite, 11.5 cm, Frizington, probably Parkside Mine.	Barite, 58 mm tall, from Gutterby Pit, 18 Fathom level, Cleator Moor, Cumbria, England, UK.
Transparent colourless baryte crystals, 7 cm, from the W Cumbria iron mines. ex Charles Otto Trechmann (1851-1917).	Baryte to 4 mm on 12 mm matrix, Kinniside Mine, Cleator Moor, Cumbria	Wulfenite crystal, ca 1mm, with hydrocerussite crystals, Kinniside Mine, Cleator Moor, Cumbria.	Wulfenite crystal, ca 1mm, with hydrocerussite crystals, Kinniside Mine, Cleator Moor, Cumbria.	Smoky quartz, 6 cm lustrous crystal with hematite. Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria. Victorian specimen with multiple labels.