Linarite

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Red Gill mine is well known for its fascinating suite of minerals, but is most famous for its excellent Linarite, this being considered one of the best three sites for the species in the British Isles. Linarite is a copper lead sulphate hydroxide and forms bright Persian blue, bladed crystals, richly clustered over the surface of a Quartz veinstone matrix. The crystals have developed to about 5 x 5 mm by 1 mm deep, on top of broad Quartz crystals which lie flat across the matrix. The specimen is enhanced by powdery thin coatings and veinlets of pale blue Azurite, turquoise-green Malachite and creamy white Cerussite and Baryte. This is a particularly good example of crystallised Linarite from Red Gill mine; a specimen which will stand out in any Roughton Gill /Caldbeck Fells specialist suite. See the superb Classic Minerals of Northern England: The Lindsay Greenbank Collection edited by Wendell E. Wilson; published by The Mineralogical Record as a supplement to Vol. 41, No. 1, Jan-Feb 2010.