Updated 4d ago
10
Pyromorphite$450.00
Wire transfers available, to set up
Wheal Rose, near Porthleven in Cornwall is a famous historic lead mine with many 18th century specimens represented in Philip Rashleigh's famous collection in the Royal Cornwall Museum. Modern exploration at the mine produced excellent finds in living memory and so it is uncertain how old this specimen is. Either way, it is a lovely, very richly crystallized Cornish Pyromorphite and passed from the dealers Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd to Mike Brooke's British collection. Consisting of a small piece of gossanous Quartz veinstone, an area measuring 3.5 cm x 2 cm is covered in very lustrous, waxy, yellow-green prismatic Pyromorphite crystals to 3 mm in length. The quality of the crystals is extremely good and compares favourably with the renowned Pyromorphite from Wheal Alfred.
Product details
Species
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions5.2 x 2.4 x 2.5 cm
Locality
SKUCC33241
Listed on12/02/2024
Comments
Known provenance
Species and Locality Wiki Pages
Collectors of Pyromorphite from Wheal Rose
Pyromorphite from UK Sales Data
From
To
From
To
Loading sales data...
All Sales
Loading specimens...