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LOT 2487
Mixed Crystal and Mineral Specimen Group
3/4 - 4 1/8 in. (843 grams total, 1.9-10.5 cm).
Comprising: mimetite from Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fell, Cumbria; stibnite from Wheal Leigh, Pillaton, Cornwall; scorodite from Hemerdon Ball mine, Plympton, Devon; goethite from Restormel Royal Iron Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall; rutile from Brazil; galena from Mendip Hills, Somerset; pyromorphite from Burgam Mine, Stiperstones, Shropshire; fluorite and calcite from Harding County, Illinois, USA; crystalline malachite from Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of Congo. [9, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of a Cornish, UK, gentleman.
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