Origin: Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines,
Cumbria, England, UK
Sample size: crystals to 1 cm (left), galena crystals to 2.5 cm with partial
coating of
calcite (right)
Owner: Don Rust
Origin: Hampstead Farm Quarry, Chipping Sodbury district, Gloucestershire,
England, UK
Sample size: 1.5 mm crystal showing tetrahexahedral faces (top left), 2.5 mm
crystal, with
goethite
on calcite
(top right), 3 mm crystal group showing odd development of octahedral faces.
On calcite
associated with minor
goethite
(bottom left), composite stacked galena crystal on
calcite
with barite
(bottom right)
Owner: Steve Rust
Origin: Croft quarry, Croft, Leicestershire, England, UK
Sample size: not a good specimen, but extremely rare from Croft Quarry. 1.5 mm
galena crystal with some
cerussite
alteration, on
analcime.
And rusty spots of
goethite
replaced
pyrite
Owner: Steve Rust
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