Detailed information
Dimensions
60 x 55 x 28
mm
Locality
Dry Gill Mine Caldbeck Fells Cumbria, England
Condition
No recorded repairs
Glassy, burnt barley sugar-orange rounded crystals of Campylite, a variety of Mimetite (lead arsenate chloride) nestle in a shallow 3.0 x 2.5 cm vug, in a sooty black matrix of Baryte mixed with manganese oxides. Some creamy-white crystalline Baryte occupies the vug together with the highly lustrous Campylite crystals, each to about 5 or 6 mm across. A fine example of the variety Campylite from the classic locality of Dry Gill mine in the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England.