A cut and polished section of chalcedony, the mine was famous for this silica mineral producing some fabulous specimens some resembling spun sugar.

Size 13.0×8.0cms

Not a great fan of siderite but this self collected specimen has siderite sitting on chalcopyrite and blue fluorite makes a interesting assemblage.

It is still possible to collect specimens on the dump today.

A large specimen of near solid cassiterite weighing over 10kg coming from the 278 fathom level Levant mine Trewellard.

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.