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| A colourless fluorite cube 12 mm on its longest edge with hematite phantoms in one half of the crystal from Florence Mine, Egremont. William Creighton collection. | Superb yellow crystal of campylite, 15 mm across, from Dry Gill Mine. Peter Briscoe collection. |
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Superb jackstraw cerussite aggregate 90 mm across with typical blue staining from Redburn Mine, Rookhope, Durham. Ian Bruce collection. |
A spray of pyromorphite crystals 25 mm tall from the Knapside veins, Hard Rigg Edge, Alston, Cumbria. David McCallum collection. |
Photos: David Green.

Top left: A black
anatase crystal 0.8 mm long with well developed steep straited pyramid
faces terminated by the pinacoid (001). Collected by Max Wirth
Top right: Brown translucent striated brookite crystal with slightly
darker phantoms, 0.6 mm in total length, associated with silvery muscovite
on pink feldspar. Collected by Max Wirth.
Bottom left: Red to white mottled slightly weathered thick prismatic
crystal of bastnasite-(Ce), 0.7 mm in length, in a miarolitic cavity in
granite. Collected by Max Wirth.
Bottom right: Transparent bavenite plates to 0.8 mm with pyrite.
C. Mike Leppington collection.
Photos: David Green.