campylite

British Classic Mineral Specimens

"Earning a living collecting minerals is a dream upon which you don't have a monopoly! Few people can succeed at it, and those that do usually live on the edge of poverty. Consequently they are unable to retain the exceptional specimens they find. Take it from one whose hobby has become his profession: let minerals remain a hobby and they will remain a joy. If you depend on them for your livelihood, you will have to look elsewhere for relaxation, diversion, pleasure."

Carl A Francis, Harvard University Mineralogical Museum, April 26th 1982.

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I've been collecting minerals for 50 years, specialising in British classics. It's my mineral website, and is also a window into my Weardale based Greenlaws Mining Project. I've made the site into a mine of information about Northern English minerals, and the Classic localities I've been fortunate enough to collect in over many years. I've acquired many minerals in this time, so I'm slowly starting to sell some of these classics - hence minerals for sale. All of the minerals featured are from my huge collection - I'm not a dealer, but I do buy collections of northern minerals.

Fine mineral photography by Jeff Scovil

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Mineral Localities
Weardale
Caldbeck Fells
Alston Moor
West Cumbria
Escarpment
Mineral Species
Campylite
Fluorite
Calcite
Plumbogummite
Barite
Pyromorphite
Mottramite
Haematite
Alstonite
Galena
Sphalerite
Witherite