Welcome to Cornwall & Devon Minerals

Welcome to Cornwall & Devon Minerals. This site is dedicated as a whole to the sale of old and contemporary mineral specimens from these two regions in Great Britain. I will try to update the 'for sale' pages on the first of every new month and later will include thumbnails and micromounts.

Michael G.H.Merry
sales@cornwalldevonmineralspecimens.co.uk

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LUDLAMITE Wheal Jane Mine, Kea, Cornwall. See featured minerals below

Featured Minerals

TENNANTITE Tincroft Mine, Redruth, Cornwall. Many large cavities filled with bright tennantite crystals to 4 mm in quartz, chalcopyrite matrix. A very fine example. Size 70 x 55 x 5 mm Price: £ 175.00 ($ 260.75) BLISTER COPPER 'chalcopyrite' Cooks Kitchen Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. A fine old time classic from the Cooks Kitchen Mine. Size 60 x 80 x 35 mm Price: £ 245.00 ($ 365.05) BORNITE Carn Brea Mine, Redruth, Cornwall. Wonderful old time specimen displaying elongated cubic crystals of bornite all over the face of the specimen. No damage Size 70 x 80 x 35 mm Price: £ 350.00 ($ 521.50) CUPRITE Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall. Large specimen of displaying a mass red cuprite crystals to 2 mm in size. Size 90 x 70 x 35 mm Price: £ 145.00 ($ 216.05) CALCITE ON QUARTZ Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. A plate of quartz crystals stained brown by iron inclusions partly covered by calcite crystals to 1.5 cm, these having a sprinkling of minute chalcopyrite crystals. Pretty specimen. From the late Frank Avray Wilson collection,... Price: £ 65.00 ($ 96.85) TENNANTITE On BLISTER COPPER Cooks Kitchen Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Beautiful specimen of blister copper covered with iridescent micro crystals of bornite on which there are strings of bright tennantite crystals. Around the edge of the specimen are many cavity’s lined with more tennantite cryst... Price: £ 185.00 ($ 275.65) CHALCOPYRITE On QUARTZ Wheal Towan, Porthtowan, Cornwall. Old time specimen displaying crystals of chalcopyrite sitting amongst needle quartz crystals on quartz, chlorite matrix. Ex. Ron. Manuell Collection, Camborne. Size 9 x 4 x 4 cm Price: £ 165.00 ($ 245.85) APATITE Trolvis Quarry, Long downs,, Cornwall. A group of apatite crystals to 4 mm associated with tiny modified fluorite crystals on pegmatite matrix. Size 5 x 4 x 3 cm cm Price: £ 38.00 ($ 56.62) SIDERITE, HEMATITE & CHALCOPYRITE Carn Brea Mine, Redruth, Cornwall. Curved crystals of siderite to 1 cm partly coated with hematite with the odd crystal of chalcopyrite. Ex. Colin Bailey collection. Size 6 x 3.5 x 3 cm Price: £ 125.00 ($ 186.25) NATIVE COPPER Sampsons Shaft, Ale & Cakes Mine, United Downs, Gwennap, Cornwall. A large leaf of native copper partly coated with malachite with a small amount of slate matrix slate matrix. Collected from a stope on 'Hot Lode' off Sampsons Shaft in the early 1980’s when RTZ were s... Price: £ 65.00 ($ 96.85) BOTALLACKITE A fine example of botallackite on granite matrix from cligga Head. This specimen displays lath like botallack crystals average 4 mm in size which are metallic in luster and stand out beautifully on the dark matrix. Size 8 x 5 x 3 cm Price: £ 165.00 ($ 245.85) ARSENOPYRITE Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon. Old time rarity displaying bright arsenopyrite crystals to 2.5 cm! in length in quartz, chlorite matrix Size 5.5 x 4 x 4 cm Price: £ 195.00 ($ 290.55) CALCITE ON QUARTZ Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Crystalline quartz matrix with pale pink calcite dotted with chalcopyrite. Pretty specimen Size 7. x 5 x 3 cm Price: £ 65.00 ($ 96.85) SERPIERITE Wheal Prosper, Marazion, Cornwall. Recent find of sky blue fibrous serpierite with crystalline brochantite and minor brianyoungite on dolomite matrix. Quite probably the first confirmed location for serpierite in Cornwall. Size 6.5 x 6 x 1.5 cm Price: £ 65.00 ($ 96.85) COPPER & CUPRITE Wheal Unity, St. Day, Cornwall. Ruby red cubic crystals of cuprite to 2 mm with native copper on quartz matrix. Ex. A.Williams collection No. 247 Size 6.5 x x 2 cm Price: £ 65.00 ($ 96.85) NATIVE COPPER South Caradon Mine, St. Cleer, Cornwall. Pretty crystalized fern of copper with a few tiny specks of quartz matrix. Size 5.5 x 5.5 x .2 cm Price: £ 65.00 ($ 96.85) BLISTER COPPER Cooks Kitchen Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. A superb blister copper from Cooks Kitchen, no damage but dose have a sawn back. Size 5.5 x 5 x 3 cm Price: £ 165.00 ($ 245.85) DUFRENITE Wheal Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Complete and broken sphere's of dufrenite with chalcosiderite and hisingerite on quartz matrix. Nice example. Size 7 x 5 x 4 cm Price: £ 75.00 ($ 111.75) LUDLAMITE Wheal Jane Mine, Kea, Cornwall. A group of pyrite crystals to 1 cm partly coated in crystalline siderite with areas of ludlamite crystals to 3 mm. This specimen is from the early workings of Wheal Jane, late 1800’s and are very rare not to be confused with the more ... Price: £ 285.00 ($ 424.65)