A large specimen of solid Malachite from Gwennap part of the Colonel Williams collection of Scorrier House collected in the 1700’s.

It has been very roughly cut but never polished hence its appearance.

Rhodonite is pretty rare in most areas of Cornwall the exception is a wide circle of mines around Launceston where it occurs readily within manganese deposits. The photos show two such specimens the first and darker one also contains Bustamite and Tephroite showing as the brown infill. Both specimens have been cut and polished from much larger blocks.

Something a bit brighter and self collected! A good covering of metatorbernite platelets on a iron rich quartz matrix, From the celebrated South Terras mine.

A rich and heavy specimen consisting of tiny wires of native silver and stephanite collected in the 1800’s and part of a local collection for many years.

Perhaps it passed through the hands of Richard Talling?

A rarity for Herodsfoot although some magnificent calcite specimens were collected underground in the 1800’s its occurrence on the dumps is rare.

This specimen is made up of cubic pyrite, bournonite, siderite, paper calcite, galena and quartz.

A specimen of solid creamy white baryte with cubic pyrite with minor blue fluorite collected from the tips of Wheal Mary Ann in 1968.