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Bournonite with Quartz, Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall, EnglandSteel-grey twinned bournonite crystals, in distinctive cog wheel formation, with colourless quartz. This fine specimen from the lead and silver mine, Herodsfoot
Chalcopyrite with Quartz and Minor Sphalerite, United KingdomThis specimen was drawn for Specimens of British Minerals, Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh (1797, Volume 1, Plate 7, Figure 3) which states Is yellow copper ore
Galena, Sphalerite, Bitumen and Fluorite, Ashover, Derbyshire, EnglandGrey galena, brown sphalerite, black bitumen and colourless fluorite. Collector Philip Rashleigh wrote in his mineral catalogue
Galena, Earl Ferrers Mine, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, EnglandReticulated mass of grey galena on top of octahedral crystals of galena with colourless calcite and brassy yellow chalcopyrite, on pink baryte
Galena and Quartz, Derbyshire, England (Uncertain Locality)Reticulated grey galena with colourless quartz crystals. Galena is the primary ore mineral of lead
Galena with Sphalerite, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, EnglandGrey galena with black clusters of sphalerite, colourless calcite and brassy yellow chalcopyrite on pink baryte and brown dolomite
Chalcopyrite with Calcite and Galena, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, EnglandBrassy yellow chalcopyrite crystals on colourless scalenohedral calcite crystals (dog tooth spar) with metallic grey galena on limestone
Copper with Quartz, South Caradon Mine, St Cleer, Cornwall, EnglandCopper with crystalline quartz. Most Cornish copper specimens are dull, but native copper (pure copper, uncombined with any other elements) from Caradon is invariably bright