Natural History - Historic 'Taouz, Morocco' Vanadinite on Barite Mineral Specimen

Comprising: tuff from Chineham District Centre, Chineham, Basingstoke, England, collection number 532; pale apple-green gypsum from Rudna Copper Mine, Lubin, Poland, collection number 576; lepidolite from Brazil, collection number 268; granite from the A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 501; a cut and polished agate geode half from Brazil, collection number 68; asrophyllite from Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, USSR, collection number 556; breccia, collection number 188; quartz from Cornwall, England, collection number 295; boleite, collection number 553. 1.46 kg total, 3.5-11.5 cm



Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Six specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Comprising: a cut and polished agate slice, collection number 395; jasper slice from Stone Canyon, near Coalinga, California, USA, collection number 289; a cut section of sandstone nodule, collection number 227. 1.62 kg total, 15.2-17 cm



Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Promicroceras planicosta with iron stained surface giving a beautiful contrast in colour, from the Lower Lias, Obtusum Zone. 42.53 grams, 67 mm



From Queen Camel, Somerset, UK, in 2008. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. Accompanied by a copy of a previous illustrated catalogue page with reference no.AMM7149.