Detailed information
Species
Turquoise
Dimensions
25 x 35 x 21
mm
Weight
24 g
Locality
Gunheath China Clay Pit Stenalees, Treverbyn St Austell District, Cornwall, England
Condition
No recorded repairs
The Cornish China Clay pits occasionally threw up some really interesting mineralogical occurrences, not least suites of interesting phosphate species. Gunheath China Clay Pit was one of the most significant sites and during the 1980s produced by far and away the most spectacular Turquoise specimens seen in the UK. This very intensely coloured miniature specimen from there actually show microcrystalline surfaces and cavities which was very unusual. Ex Malcolm Southwood Collection, no. MS 1992.073.