19th Nov, 2021 12:00
Fine Photographica & Instruments of Science
Pyromorphite on Matrix
the small stubby prismatic green crystals cover the entire matrix, specimen noted as sourced from the Roughten Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England, dimensions (cm) 5.1 x 4.3 x 1.9
Footnote: it is now thought that most specimens assigned to this locality were more likely to have been from the nearby Red Gill mine. Provenance: Royal Scottish Museums (1955); Western Minerals, Tuscon; A. K. Borland Collection.
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the small stubby prismatic green crystals cover the entire matrix, specimen noted as sourced from the Roughten Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England, dimensions (cm) 5.1 x 4.3 x 1.9
Footnote: it is now thought that most specimens assigned to this locality were more likely to have been from the nearby Red Gill mine. Provenance: Royal Scottish Museums (1955); Western Minerals, Tuscon; A. K. Borland Collection.
Auction: Fine Photographica & Instruments of Science, 19th Nov, 2021
