Origin: Plaka Mines, Plaka, Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika)
Prefecture, Greece
Sample size: view area 3 x 2.5 cm
Owner: Steve Rust
Origin: Brownley Hill (Bloomsberry) Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor District,
North Pennines, Cumbria, England, UK
Sample size: 1.5 mm ruby-sphalerite crystal on
quartz.
collected from the Brownley Hill North Vein (left), 2.5 mm group of ruby-sphalerite
crystals on
quartz, collected from the Brownley Hill North Vein in 1982 (right)
Owner: Steve Rust
Origin: Hampstead Farm Quarry, Chipping Sodbury district, Gloucestershire,
England, UK
Sample size: 1.2 mm crystal on
pyrite
Owner: Steve Rust
Origin: Eas a Bradain, Luib, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, North West
Highlands, Scotland, UK
Sample size: 1 mm black sphalerite crystal on
clinochlore coated "pyroxene".
Owner: Steve Rust
Origin: Frongoch Mine (Bron-y-Goch; Llawynwnwch), Pontrhydygroes, Upper
Llanfihangell-y-Creuddyn, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: 4 cm x 3 cm 'sphere' of sphalerite for which the mine is noted,
although these are of very rare occurrence
Owner: Steve Rust
Origin: Minera (mines), Minera, Wrexham (Clwyd; Denbighshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: 0.7 mm crystal on
quartz
Owner: Steve Rust
Origin: Parc Mine, Minera, Wrexham (Clwyd; Denbighshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: 0.6 mm crystal
Owner: Steve Rust
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