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Sulfide Collection

Background imageSulfide Collection: Bournonite with Quartz, Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall, England

Bournonite with Quartz, Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall, England
Steel-grey twinned bournonite crystals, in distinctive cog wheel formation, with colourless quartz

Background imageSulfide Collection: Chalcocite, Cooks Kitchen Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, England

Chalcocite, Cooks Kitchen Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, England
Coarse platy chalcocite

Background imageSulfide Collection: Chalcopyrite with Quartz and Minor Sphalerite, United Kingdom

Chalcopyrite with Quartz and Minor Sphalerite, United Kingdom
This 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

Background imageSulfide Collection: Chalcocite with Quartz, Cooks Kitchen Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, England

Chalcocite with Quartz, Cooks Kitchen Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, England
This specimen was drawn for Specimens of British Minerals, Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh (1797, Volume 1, Plate 7)

Background imageSulfide Collection: Chalcocite with Chalcopyrite, Tincroft Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, England

Chalcocite with Chalcopyrite, Tincroft Mine, Illogan, Cornwall, England
Steel coloured crystals of chalcocite covering chalcopyrite. This botryoidal variety of chalcopyrite is known as blister copper

Background imageSulfide Collection: Chalcopyrite on Quartz, Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England

Chalcopyrite on Quartz, Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England
Brassy yellow crystals of chalcopyrite, with an iridescent tarnish, on colourless quartz crystals

Background imageSulfide Collection: Cerussite on Galena and Baryte, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England

Cerussite on Galena and Baryte, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England
Cerussite on galena and baryte. The specimen label states: 330 Lead ore with transparent crystals of lead ore found near Matlock very Rare. Galena is the primary ore mineral of lead

Background imageSulfide Collection: Galena, Sphalerite, Bitumen and Fluorite, Ashover, Derbyshire, England

Galena, Sphalerite, Bitumen and Fluorite, Ashover, Derbyshire, England
Grey galena, brown sphalerite, black bitumen and colourless fluorite

Background imageSulfide Collection: Galena, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England

Galena, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England
Reticulated dull grey galena on larger dull grey octahedral crystals of galena

Background imageSulfide Collection: Galena, Earl Ferrers Mine, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England

Galena, Earl Ferrers Mine, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England
Reticulated mass of grey galena on top of octahedral crystals of galena with colourless calcite and brassy yellow chalcopyrite, on pink baryte

Background imageSulfide Collection: Galena, Matlock, Derbyshire, England

Galena, Matlock, Derbyshire, England
Bright metallic grey galena. Collector Philip Rashleigh wrote in his mineral catalogue 126 Lead Ore shot in the form of a leaf called Thorn-Leaf Lead Ore. Matlock

Background imageSulfide Collection: Galena and Quartz, Derbyshire, England (Uncertain Locality)

Galena and Quartz, Derbyshire, England (Uncertain Locality)
Reticulated grey galena with colourless quartz crystals. Galena is the primary ore mineral of lead

Background imageSulfide Collection: Galena with Calcite, Sphalerite and Pyrite, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England

Galena with Calcite, Sphalerite and Pyrite, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England
6mm pale yellow scalenohedral calcite crystals (dog tooth spar) and brassy yellow chalcopyrite crystals on galena and sphalerite

Background imageSulfide Collection: Galena with Sphalerite, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England

Galena with Sphalerite, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England
Grey galena with black clusters of sphalerite, colourless calcite and brassy yellow chalcopyrite on pink baryte and brown dolomite

Background imageSulfide Collection: Galena with Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England

Galena with Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England
Reticulated galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite on octahedral crystals of galena. The locality is recorded as Staunton Harold and this specimen is probably from the Earl Ferrers Mines

Background imageSulfide Collection: Chalcopyrite on Baryte, Ecton Mine, Ecton Hill, Staffordshire, England

Chalcopyrite on Baryte, Ecton Mine, Ecton Hill, Staffordshire, England
Brassy yellow chalcopyrite on botryoidal cream baryte. This specimen is a classic example from the Ecton Copper Mines in Staffordshire. Chalcopyrite is an important copper ore

Background imageSulfide Collection: Chalcopyrite with Calcite and Galena, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England

Chalcopyrite with Calcite and Galena, Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England
Brassy yellow chalcopyrite crystals on colourless scalenohedral calcite crystals (dog tooth spar) with metallic grey galena on limestone


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