Mendipite

Origin: Merehead quarry, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 2 cm with white to pink and yellow prismatic crystals in matrix to 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
 
  
Matrix hosting rich masses of colourless to white mendipite and hydrocerussite.
Origin: Churchill, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, UK
Sample size: 3.8 x 4.7 x 2.5 cm (top), 4.8 x 3.6 x 2.2 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Pink to white mendipite crystal with green granular chloroxiphite (left photo)
White radiating masses with hydrocerussite in matrix
Origin: Merehead Quarry, Frome, Mendip Hills, Somerset, U.K
Sample size: 2 x 2.5 cm (top), 4 x 7 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

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