RICHARD U. 8ARSTOW -- Drakewalls House, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England. Te1.No.: Gunnis1ake 832381 (STD (022) V.A.T. No.: 132-7852-67
ORDERING I~~O~IATION Mail orders are promptly filled and despatched on a 7-day examination basis, sUbject to epproval. Immediate refund guaranteed on return of the specimen(s), in good condition. • Please quote the name and number of the specimen(s) required, and enclose P.O./Cheque with order. All prices are inclusive of V.A.T. No charge is made for postage and packing, except for overseas customers and postage over 75p. we resen'e the right to make slight substitutions, if necessary, unless advised to the contrary. Special requests and "wants lists" are welcome. we hope that we may be of some service to you, and assure you of our best ettention at ell times. JUNE 1978 1. ALMANDI~£ GARNET. Deer Creek, Lemhi Co., Idaho, U.S.A. Lustrous red glassy crystal sections to i" in diameter richly scattered in blackish biotite gneiss. 3x2tx1i" , f.3.50p. 2. ANATASE. Tysse, Norway. Fine sharp deep bluish crystals to 5 mm in size richly scattered on three sides of a clear well formed quartz crystal. 3t" long by i" acrss the axis. £22.00 3. APATITE. Colcerrow Qry., Luxulyan, Cornwall. Specimen A: Well formed translucent pale blue chunky single hexagonal crystal. t" long by 1 cm across tha axis. £2.25p. Specimen B: Sharp clear pale greenish hexagonal crystals to 4 mm in size scattered on creamy Feldspar• .1xt.-", £1.75p 4. ARSENIOPLEITE. Sjogruva, Sweden. Rich light reGdish masses on and in a dark matrix. 2tx2x1t", £2. SOp. 5. ARSENOPVRITE. Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. Specimen A: Fine bright silvery sharp crystals to tIT in size thickly encrusting a cellular matrix with odd small milky quartz crystals. 4x21;x2 ", £23.00. Specimen B: Fine bright silvery sharp crystals to 1 cm in size richly covering matrix. ~x2tx1t", £12.00. Specimen C: Bright silvery sharp crystals to tIT in size covering matrix with a little greyish needly aamesonite. 3x2", £7.00. Specimen D: Select i::luster of intergrown bright silvery sharp crystals to tIT in size with a little ~artz. 2x1tX1~, £4.5Op 6. ATACAMITE. Mina la Farola, Copiapo, Ch~le. Specimen A: Bright green bladed crystals to 5 mm in lemgth rwchly scattered on greenish Chrysocolla covering matrix. 3tx2", £6. SOp. Specimen B: As specimen A, but not quite 50 rich in Atacamite, 2tx1tx1 ", £2.5Op. 7. AXINITE. Botallack Head, st. Just, Cornwall. Specimen A: Select lustrous clove-brown sharp crystals to 1 cm in size thickly covering matrix. 1-txl~", £6.5Op. Specimen B: Lustrous sharp clove-brown crystals to over t" in size thickly lining a 1~1" cavity in matrix. 2x1-tx1", £4.5Op 8. AZURITE. Chessy, Rhone, France. Fine bright blue well formed crystals to 5 mm in size richly scattered all over and in cavitmes in cellular brown limonitic matrix with e'little greenish MAlACHITE in association. 2x1-tx1t", £11.00 9. BARYTES. Force Crag Mine, nr. Keswick, Cumberland. Select, cluster of sharp lustrous creamy' bleded crystals. to 1t" in size. 2-tx2'4x1t-", £3.5Op 10. BENITOITE. San Benito Co., California, U.S.A. Light blue sharp crystal 1 cm in size implanted on matrix with a little white Natrolite and a blackish crystal section of Neptunite 3 mm in length. 1x1", £4.5Op 2 11. BEUDANTITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Sharp lustrous light coloured crystals mostly around 1 mm in size richly scattered in cavities gossany matrix. 1tx1ix1f", £f;.5QJ 12. BoRNITE. Wheal Cock, St. Just, Cornwall. Very rich purply-blue masses associated with creamy crystalline Calcite mat :rix. 3tx2-tx1i", £4.5Op 13. BRA OTITE. Harstig Min , wermland, Sweden. Creamy-white platy crystals and crystal masses aggregated in cavities in schefferite matrix. 2x1", £3.5Dp 14. BRoCHANTITE. Mina la Farola, Copiapo, Chile. oright green silky radiated tufts of needly crystals richly covering deep bluish Chrysocolla on matrix. Very attractive specimen. 3x1ix1", £13.00 15. CALCITE. Cammock Eals'Mine"W8ardale, Co. Durham. Fine large creamy sharp platy crystals to over 2" in size, free standing on quartz matrix with a light dusting of Pyrites in ~laces, with the rEVerse side of the specimen covered with lustrous milky quartz crystals to i" in size. Very attractive specimen For display. 4ix3tx21'", £11.00 16. CALCITE. Millclose Mine, near Matlock, Derbyshire. Fine large doubly terminated translucent creamy-yellow Scalenohedral crystal. Choice display specilimen. 6xJ.}x2i", £14.00 17. CALCITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Choice creamy-white rosettes of platy _crystals to i" in size scattered on matrix with odd sharp dark grey CHALCOCITE crystals to 5 rTll]1 in size. ztx2tx1~", £7.00 18. CALCITE. Croft Pit, Gigrigg, Cumberland. A well formed mostly clear heart-shaped twin crystal with odd fragments of I)ematite attached at the base. 1tx1-t", £8.00 19. CASSITERITE. Lady Gwendoline Mine, Germoe, Cornwall. Very rich heavy deep brownish mass associated with quartz and a little c lorite. An old label is attached to the specimen. 5?:-x3x2", £6.5QJ 20. CASSITERITE. Wheal ~etal, Breage, Cornwall. Select light brown parallel bands of fibrous 'wood tin' cutting a dark slaty matrix with a little quartz. The specimen has been ,cut and polished to show the structure to best effect. :!x2", £4.5Dp 21. CASSITERITE~ Drakewalls Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. A large sharp deep brown lustrous crystal -:;-" in size implanted on chloritised slate matrix with a little quartz. One side of the specimen is encrusted with micro sparkling CHILDRENITE crystals. 2tx2x1~", £7.00 22. CATAPLEIITE. Hedrum, Vestfold, Norway. Rich orangey-brown masses in matrix with minor blackish bladed f:\egirine and feldspar and Astrophyllite. 2x1ix1i", £2.25p 23. CERUSSITE. Mibladen, nr. Midelt, Atlas Mts., Morocco. Specimen A: Large translucent glassy slightly smoky twinned crxstals to 1" in size aggregated and scattered on pinkish bladed Barytes matrix. 24X2x1t", £14.00. Specimen B: Fine sharp twinned slightly smoky translucent crystals to nearly i" in size dotted on bladed barytes mat rix. 2x1~x1-t", £6.5Dp. Specimen C: Fine transparent sharp twinned crystals to -}" in size aggr8gated on one end of pinkish platy crystallised barytes matrix. 2-tx1i", £4. 5Cp, , 24. CHABAZITE. Rubencorfel, Bohemia, C.S.S.R. Intergrown lustrous creamy sharp crystals to 1 cm in swze coveriClg basalt,matrix. 3x2" , f.3.50p 25. CHALCoCITE. Tincrmft Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Unusual elongated dark grey needly crystals to 8 mm. in length richly scattered all over a cellular chlorite/quartz veinstuff. 4~'x3", £23.00 26. CHALCOPYRITE. Frenc~ Creek, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Select brassy skeletal crystals to ~" in size richli] intergrown on magnetite matrix with odd shaiBp octahedral Pyrites crystals. 5-tx3x1i",,£24.oo 27. CHALCOSIDERITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinho~ne, Cor~wall. Deep greenish crystals and crystal aggregates richlY,lining l;avities in gossany limonitic matrix. 1ix1ix1-t", £3.25p 28. CHRYSOTILE. Asbestos, f1uebec { Canada, Fine silky greenish vein i" thick cutting serpentine matrix. 4x z-tx 2'4" , £4.50p , 9' CLI~~CLASE •. ~eal GD:l~nd,.St. Day, cor~wall. Select bluish small sharp crystals ~ rlchly Ilnlng cavltles ln cellular quartz with a little Olivenite in association. 1tx1~x1", £5.5Op . 30. N TIVE COPPER. Santa Rita, New Mexico, U.S.A. Fine bright metallic dendritic fern-like Sheet covering matrix. 3x~", £8.00 31. 'ATIVE COPPER. Tincroft r~ine, Illogan, Cornwall. very rich pure cellular crystal mass with a little milky quartz attached in places. 3x2J.x27~", 1:11.00 32. NATIVE COPPER. South Caradon Mine, st. Cleer, Cornwall. Rich pure cellular masses of spiky crystals , some with a little matrix attached. samples each approx 1.\-x1-t" in Size, 1:2.5Dp each. 33. CouALTITE. Hakansbo, Vastmanland, Sweden. Sharp silvery cubic crystal 5 mm in size partially embedded in pY:rrhotite matrix. 1J.x1tx1" , £4.5Op 34. CUPRITE. North Wheal oasset, nr. Redruth, Cornwall. Rich lustrous maroon coloured cellular mass of intergrown octahedral crystals to 3 wm in size with minor quartz in association. 3x2}x1*", £14.00 35. CUPRITE. Wheal Gorland, st. Day, Cornwall. Bright reddish sharp octahedral crystals scattered in cavties in light brownish matrix. Crystals range up to 3 mm in size. 3x11'x1~", l:r. 5Dp. 36. DANALITE. Yxsjoborg, wermland, Sweden. Rich deep reddish masses scattered in matrix with a little Pyrrhotite and fluorite. Specimen A: 2~x2x1lu. l:4.5Dp. Specimen 0: 2x1x1", £1. 5Dp 37. DANDURITE. Mine la Dufa, Chercas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Fine sharp lustrous creamy terminated crystals to nearly tOO in lerKJth completely covering and ,free-standing on matrix, with odd bright brassy sharp twinned CHALCoPYRITE crystals to 1 cm in size in association. 3x2f", £23.00 38. DEMANToID GARNET. Val Malenco, Sondrio, Italy. Lime-green sharp crystals to 3 mm in size sCnttered on serpentire matrix with creamy Asbestos in association. 2x2x1t.-" , £4.5Op 39. ~oLoMITE. Trepca, Yugoslavia. Fine sharp creamy coloured crystals to ~." in size very richly' covering s[ilalerite/quart z matrix with soarp clear Quart z cry'stals to ~" in length, brassy Pyrites crystals to t.-" in Size, and creamy nail-head Calcite crystals to over i.." in size in association. Choice specimen for display. 5x~x2-t", £13.00 40. DUNDASITE. Ratteingraben, carinthia, Austria. Creamy-white velvety crystal masses lining cavities 'in Siderite matrix with a little silvery-grey Oournonite in places. 3x2x1t.-". £4. 50p . 41. ECKERMAN~UTE. Norra Karr, Sweden. Rich greenish bladed masses intergrown with calcite. 3:<2-}x1-t", £4.5Q:J 42. ENARGITE. 8Utte Silver Dow Co., Montana, U.S.A. Fine bright silvery-grey sharp j crystals to '4" in size thickly lining large cavities in crystalline enargite mat rix with odd :;;mall crystals.of brassy Pyrites. 3x2~X1t-", £17.00 43. EOSPHORITE. Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Drazil. Select golden brown radiated sprays of sharp terminated crystals implanted on a quartz crystal. The sprays of crystals are 8 rrrn in diameter ljJith individual crystals 2-3 mm in size. 1-txtx~", £11.00 44. EPIDoTE. Zoptau, Moravia, C.S.S.R. Dright olive green small sharp crystals richly covering a schisto:;;e matrix. 2ix1-tx1t.-", £4.5Dp 45. ERY.~RITE. ~tt. Cobalt, Queensland, Australia. Rich bright pinkish radiated needly crystals thick~y covering matrix. 3x1t", £3.50p 46. FLUORITE. Rock candy Mine, washington, U.S.A. Fine translucent light purpl~-green stepped octahedral crystals to 1~'" in size free standing and intergrown on milky quartz covering gre\lnish fluorite matrix. Choice display specimen. 5x4x3-t", £33.00 47. FLUORITE. Heights Mine, weardale, Co. Durham. Choice bright green sharp clear inter penetrant twinned cubic crystals to over t" in size encrusting altered limestone matrix. Fin~ specimem of excellent colour. 4x3-}x1-t", £38.00 4 48. FLUORITE. Cammock Eals Mine, Weardal~, Co. Durham. Specimen A: Select transparent purple interpenetrant twinned cubic crystals to 1!-It in size scattered over small bright milky Quartz crystals, with a later partial encrustation of creamy sharp Calcite crystals to ~It in size and odd bright brassy masses of Pyrites crystals to 5 rrm in size. t,x3x2~It, £11.DD. Specimen D:. Select light purply transparent interpenetrant twiinned cubic crystals to ~-" in size scattered over intergrown milky pyramidal [)uartz crystals to tit iCl size. 2-}x 2-t It , £5.50p 49. FLUORITE. west Pastures Mine, nr. Stanhope, Co. Durham. Fine mostly transparent apple groen sharp cubic crystals to ilt in size thitlkly encrusting a dome shaped brownish siderite matrix. Ji-x3x31t, £13.00 50. FRANKLINITE. Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, U.S.A. Very choice bright black sharp . la·rge octahedral crystals to over 1 It in size pQrtially .embedded in calcite/ crystalline franklinite matrix. 3i!-x2x1t lt , £44.00 51. GALENA. Blackdene Mine, Weardale, Co. Durham. Specimen A: Fina bright silvery-grey sharp cube-octahedral crystals to nearly tit in size richly scattered over intense purple transparent Fluorite Erystals to 1 cm in size, covering a cellular fluorite/ galena matrix with small craamy calcite crystals covering the reverse side together with a little well crystallised Pyrites. ~}x3tx21t, £33.00. Specimen D: FIna bright silvery-gray large sharp cube-octahedral crystals to 1 It in size implanted on intergrown light purply cubic Fluorite crystals. 3x2x1tlt, £11.00. Specimen C: Oright silvery-grey sharp cube-octahedral crystals to tit in size forming an intergrown group with minor matrix attached. 1tx1tx1 It, £4.5Op. . 52. GOETHITE variety WOOD IRON. Restormel Royal Iron Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall. Rich well banded dark brown radiated masses associated with a little qyartz. Specimen A: 21,X11,x1tlt, £2.75p. Specimen 6: 2x1tx1'.', £1. SOp 53. HEMATITE. Doscaswall Downs Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Reddish-brown lustrous botryoidal mass covering massive l:1ematite. 2~-x2tx1~It, D.25p 54. HEMIMORPHITE. Croken Hill, Zambia. Fine translucent sharp terminated tabular crystals to ~It in length aggregated in sprays and scattered all over cellular bl?ckish coated limonitic m~rix. 2tx2tx21t, £9.DO 55. HISINGERITE. Drunsjogruven, Sweden. Rich blackish-grey compact mass with a little creamy calcite, 2tx2x1tlt, £4.5Dp 56. HOLMQUISTITE~ uto, Wermland, Sweden. Salect lustrous radiated blackish bladed crystal masses in schistosr;? matrix. 2x1tx11t, £2.7513 57. IDDCRASE. ~onte Somma, vesuvias, Italy. Fina bright dark mlive colourad sharp terminated crystals to 1 cm in size implanted in a 1 It cavity on ona end of a bladed crystalline hornblenda matrix. 3-}x3x1~It, £17.00 58. ILMENITE. Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Fine bright black rose-like mass of sharp platy crystals with a little reddish-brown rod-lika RUTILE scattered in places. 2~-x2x1~It, £33.00 59. INESITE. Hale Creek Mine, Trinity Co., California, U.S.A. Specimen A: Fine bright pink sharp terminated crystals to 1 cm in size thickly lining a 1tx1tlt cavity in matrix. 2tx2x1tlt, £16. SOp. Speciman B: FIne bright pi.nk sharp crystals to tit in size thickly covering and lining cavitias in mat rix. 1ix1~-x1-2-It, £9.00. Specimen C: Fine bright pink sharp crystals.to 4 mm in size lining larga cavities in matrix. 1tx1-~It, £4.75p 6D. KIDWELLITE. Coon Creek, Polk Co., Arkansas, U.S.A. Light olive-green botryoidQI mass covering reddish-broWJn DI;:RAUNITE on irony matrix. 2~x2-tx1tlt, £4. SOp 61. KNEBELITE. Svartbergsgruven, Sweden. Rich heavy resinous brownish mass. 2x1tx1-}It, £4.5Dp. 62. LEPIDDLITE. Tordol, Telemark, Norway. Se~ect lavendar coloured platy crystal mass with a little. quartz. 3.}x 2tIt , £1.25p 63. LEUCITE. Viterbo, near Rome, Italy. Sharp creamy-white crystals to -2- It in size scattered and partially ElTlbeddeo in matrix. 2x~x1tlt, £4.5Op 64. LIBErnHENITE. Wheal Dosset, Illogon, Cornwall. Specimen A: Sparkling olive-green micro crystals covering lorge areaG of chalcocite rich matrix. ~x1tx1tlt, £4.5Op. Specimen D: Small sharp olive-green crystals lining aovities in quartz. 2x1{It ,£3.25p ~ROCO"'E. c".~wall. ",ea! 0""",, 5t. O,V, Select bright blue sharp crystals to ~G5. Ll 4 mm in size thickly covering ITlCltr:b<. 1x-t." , £13.00 56. NATIVE MERCURY. f'ealdsburg, Sonoma Co., California, U.S.A. Silvery globules richly scattered on and in quartz/pyrites matrix ",ith a little reddish Cinnabar and Tiemannite. 2~·x1ix1-l-",.£7.00 67. MOLYODOSCHEELITE. Elgfall, Sweden. Lustrous creamy masses scattered in massive orangey-brown garnet matrix. 2-tx2tx1.f.." , £2.75p 58. NEPTUNITE. San Benito CD., California, U.S.A. Specimen A: Very choice large sharp terminated b12ckish crystals to 1" in size richly scattered over and protruding from whitish natrolite on altered serpentine matrix. Fine specimen for museum display. 4x2x1-t", £110.00. Specimen 0: Fine sharp terminated elongated blackish crystal 1t" in length protruding from whitish natrolite on serpentine matrix, with SEVeral smoller Neptunite crystals. 3x17x1-l-", £23. DD. Specimen C: Fine sharp terminated blackish crystals to i" in length scattered over natrolite matrix. 1tx1-tx1-t", £18.00. Specimen D: As specimen C, with crystals to ~" in size, 1tx1x1", £11.00. Specimen E: As specimen D, with crystals to t" in size, 1-tx1", £4.5Op. 69. PARATACAMITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Rich crust of sparkling green micro crystals on hematite/chalcocite veinstuff. 2-tx2", £4.5Op 70. PEROVSKITE. San Oenito Co., California, U.S.A. Specimen A: L3rge sharp lustrous black crystals to 5 mm in size scattered on matrix with small sharp octahedral MAGNETITE crystals. 2x1-l-", £8.00. Specimen 0: Sharp blackish crystals to 3 mm in size scattered on matrix with minute Magnetite crystals and a little Andradite garnet. 1-tx1t", £3.25p 71. PLUMBOFERRITE. Jakobsberg, Sweden. Very rich black platy crystalline masses associated with granular black Magnetite and a little calcite. 2x1tx1t-", £11.00 72. PSEUDOMALACHITE. Old Gunnislake Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich dark green masses and veinlets assQciated with milky quartz. 2-tx2x1-t", £3.25p 73. PYRITES. Rio. Marina, Elba Italy. Specimen A: Choice very bright brassy sharp pyritohedral crystal 1i,,, in diameter implanted on platy black Specularite matrix with other Pyrites crystals. 3x2tx2" , £11.00. Specimen 0: Fine sharp bright brassy single pyritohedral crystals with smaller crystals attached in places. Each a~~rox t-xt-", £1. 50p each. 74. QUARTZ. ~orro Velho goldmine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Fine mostly clear sharp terminated crystals to 1~-" in length forming an intergrown group wliJth odd small sharp brassy P-YRRHOTITE crystalS, ond much lenticular creamy DDL~1ITE crystals on the reverse ·side. Nice display specimen. 5x3-tx1-i", £17.00 75. QUARTZ. Olackdene Mine, weardole, Co. Durham. Select lust~ous creamy-white large sharp pyramidal crystals to 1t" in sliJze forming an intergrown group with odd sharp brassy Dubic PYRITES.crystals scattered on it. The reverse side shows several light purply cubic FLUORITE crystals to 1" in size and I"yrites crystals to t" in size. 7txEix2" , £14.00 76. RHODOCHROSITE. Felsobanyo, Rumania. Small sharp light pink saddle-shaped crystals completely covering both sides of quartz matrix. Very attractive specimen. 6x4x1i", £33.00 77. ROSASITE, ~1ina Ojuela, Durango, ~lexico. Rich light greenish botryotdal velvety masses richly lining large cavities in cellular brown limonitic matrix. 3-tX3x2t-", £5.50p
78. ROStNOUSCHITE. Norra Karr, Sweden. Divergent creamy coloured bladed crystalline mosses scattered througl) a dark mathx. 2x1t-", £3.25p 79. SCHEELITE. Choon Su, Chungchongpukdo, Korea. Fine very larg8 lustrous sh8rp brownish single crystal. L
INTERNATIONAL GEM, MINERAL AND CRAFT FAIR - Portsmouth Centre Hotel, Portsmouth, HampsOire. 7th-10th July (1pm - 6pm on the 7th, and 10am - Gpm on the 8th, 9th and 10th) We shall be ottending this ShOW, and our stand numbers arc 12 and 13. we look forward to meeting you there if you are oble to come, ond apart from the general specimens on sale we shall hove ~any fine and interesting Cornish pieces and some chpice Pyromorphites from our recent mining optrations in Cumberland.