Shap Blue and Pink Quarries
Molybdenite crystals, slightly less than 2 mm on 18 mm matrix. Shap Pink Quarry. |
Brookite crystals. Shap Pink Quarry. |
Anatase with pink feldspar. Shap Pink Quarry, Shap, Cumbria, England, UK. ca 1 mm crystal on 18 mm specimen. |
Reticulated sagenite (centre) above pyrite with strange dissolution channels and K-feldspar. Shap Granite Quarry. |
Gypsum crystals (ca 1 mm) with titanite (sphene). Stage-3 granite, Shap Granite Quarry. |
Milarite, sphene and clinochlore. Shap Granite Quarry. |
Milarite (or possibly fluorapatite) microcrystal. Shap Pink Quarry. |
Titanite (sphene), ca 1-2 mm with clinochlore. Stage-3 granite, Shap Granite Quarry. |
Garnet (andradite-grossular) crystals showing dodecahedral and icositetrahedral faces, 15 mm specimen, Shap Blue Quarry. |
Pectolite, 35 mm, Shap Blue Quarry, Shap, Cumbria |
13 cm Victorian (ca 1860) specimen of quartz with pyrite and dolomite. ex Thomas Bellerby Wilson. Probably Shap area, Cumbria. |
13 cm Victorian specimen of quartz with pyrite and dolomite. Dr. J.B. Wilson collection. Probably Shap area. |
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