CAMPYLITE CRYSTALS - Dry Gill Mine, Cumbria
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CAMPYLITE CRYSTALS
With black manganese oxide on white vein quartz
Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria
The disused 19th century lead mine known as Dry Gill Mine is world famous for the mineral campylite – a remarkable phosphorus-rich variety of the lead mineral mimetite.
The name campylite originates from the Greek word kampylos which means curved, on account of its attractive barrel-shaped crystals.
This specimen was collected in the 1970s and is from an old collection.
Size: 7 x 7 x 4 centimetres
Weight: 243 grams
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