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Barite
Source special issue: classic-minerals-of-northern-england, PDF page: 118. Label: Barite crystal on matrix, 17 cm (shown almost actual size), from the Parkhouse mine, Bigrigg, Egremont, Cumbria (LG-2). Two doubly terminated, dark golden yellow crystals, opaque but with transparent terminations and a brown central zone, perched on a very thin plate of hematite matrix overgrown with creamy dolomite crystals on the reverse—a fine specimen from one of the best barite occurrences in the country. The Northern Pennines have produced some of the most beautiful barite specimens in the world. Specimens are much prized by collectors. The Greenbank collection contains an excellent suite with a variety of examples from several of the best known occurrences. Specimen LG-2 is accompanied by four previous collection labels, the oldest possibly in the hand of John Graves, the 19th-century mineral collector and dealer of Frizington, Cumberland. The second label is from mineral dealer Samuel Henson (1848–1930) of 97 Regent Street, London (he operated from this address from 1888 to 1915), and there is a third label from the Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Aberdeen, Registration No. G.2782 from the Harry Gordon col-lection (see preface). The specimen was obtained by exchange from the University of Aberdeen by Simon Harrison, a mineral dealer from Bath, who sold it to Ralph A. Sutcliffe, whose collection was acquired by Lindsay Greenbank in 1991. Joe Budd photo.
Origin: Parkhouse mine, Bigrigg, Egremont, Cumbria
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Parkhouse mine, Bigrigg, Egremont, Cumbria
PublicationsSpecial Issue: Classic Minerals Of Northern England page 118
Added on10/22/2024
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