ROCKS " A to Z"
REFERENCE No NAME DESCRIPTION LOCATION sizes 1x2 are 2x2 in 2x3 inches 3x4
R64 AGGLOMERATE angular fragments in matrix, Various 50p 80p £1.50
R1 ALNOITE A rare type of Carbonatite,with mica, feldspar,apatite Alno Island, Sweden 80p £1.50 £3 £6
R2 ANDESITE Grey brown with many small white phenocrysts Buttermere,Cumbria 80p £1.50 £2.50 £5
R10 ANDESITE PORPHYRY, pale , very rich in ANDESINE South of France £1.50 £3 £5 £10
R52 ANDESITE Grey with some black Kaersutite Siatorska Slovakia £1.50 £3 £5
R275 ANDRADITE ROCK From metamorphosed Lower Culm Measures in the Dartmoor granite aureole. Belston Mine, Okehampton Devon £1.50 £3 £4.50
R70 ANORTHOSITE Garnet anorthosite, almandine in feldspar, 1x1 size only Harris, Outer Hebrides £1


R4 ANORTHOSITE PEGMATITE pinkish plagioclase cleavages in feldspar Near Kragero Norway 80p £1.50 2.50 £5
R5 APLITE Fine grained creamy masses Brittany France 50p 80p £1.50
R230 APLITE fine grained white mass Meldon Devon 60p £1.20 £2 £4
R80 AXINITE ROCK mainly rich axinite Meldon, Okehmpton 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R176 BASALT Dark grey mass Le Cheix Puy de Dome France 80p £2 £3 £6
R223 BASALT with phenocrysts of Olivine and Augite Edinburgh Scotland £1.00


R7 BASALT Good standard amygdaloidal material Skye Scotland 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R261 BASALT with OLIVINE ; pale mass with scattered spots of olivine Mitsukosi,Hizen,Saga Pre., Japan £2.50 £5 £8
R9 BASALT with AUGITE. Black phenocrysts in dark basalt Ayrshire Scotland 70p £1.50

R54 BASALT Brownish with glassy black Augite around 2 to 5mm Puy de Corrent France £1 £2.50 £5
R171 BONE BED Conglomeritic , small bones in matrix. Gloucestershire £1 £2.50

R103 BRECCIA angular fragments in matrix .A good Breccia Brockram Cumbria 50p £1 £1.50 £3
R161 BUCHITE Parts of xenoliths with Anorthite/ Mullite / Corundum Mull Scotland £3


R266 CALC SIILICATE ROCK ,Diopside cleavages in calcite with minor mica Loch Duich Scotland £2 £4 £8
R270 CARBONATITE creamy mass with mica etc Germany £3 £6 £10
R106 CHALK pure white masses Surrey 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R215 CHALK SILICIFIED hard white masses with cherty area Gribun , Mull £1 £2 £3
R107 CHALK, RED pure red-brown like bauxite Hunstanton Norfolk 50p 80p £1.50
R108 CLAY brown-grey masses in plastic bag Surrey 50p 80p

R110 CONGLOMERATE Round pebbles in silicaeous matrix. Excellent material Hertfordshire "Pud" 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R273 DACITE Altered fawn mass with white phenocrysts, Limerick Point, County Antrim, N.Ireland £1.50 £3

R17 DIORITE black and white , coarser than R15 Kentallen, Scotland 70p £1.5

R15 DIORITE grey-green fairly fine texture Cockermouth Cumbria 60p £1.20 £2
R251 DIORITE Fairly fine grained black-grey mass vallee des Vaux, Jersey £1.50 £3

R14 DIORITE Reddish-green Mountsorrel, Leicestershire 60p £1 £2 £4
R216 DIORITE-QUARTZ 3mm phenocrysts of two feldspars with biotite and quartz. Glencoe 60p £1.50 £2 £4
R16 DOLERITE good grey standard material Various locations 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R69 DUNITE grey green mass of olivine with some cleavages of green Pyroxene Aheim More og Romsdal Norway £2.50 £5 £7.50
R136 ECLOGITE RETROGRESSED , + garnets and creamy epidote coatings. Zermatt, Switzerland £3 £6 £10
R60 ECLOGITE Red Garnet in omphacite Nordfjord Norway £2.50 £5

R19 ECLOGITE Almandine in diopside-oligoclase.(retrogressed) Tulle, Correze, France 80p £1.50 £3
R20 ESSEXITE conspicuous augite phenocrysts in a pale background Southern Scotland £1 £1.50 £2.50
R228 FELSITE pinkish-brown dyke rock Goldsithney, Cornwall 80p £1.50 £2.50 £6
R248 GABBRO Grey-green medium grained Dolgellau, Wales 80p £1.50 £2.50
R25 GABBRO Teschenite fairly fine grained black and white. Lugar Scotland 60p £1.20 £1.80 £4
R22 GABBRO Black and white medium texture Caldbeck Fells Cumbria 50p £1 £1.50
R200 GABBRO coarse masses Lizard Cornwall 60p £1.20 £2 £5
R24 GABBRO Quartz gabbro about 6mm grain size Ardnamurchan Scotland 80p £1.50

R76 GNEISS Scapolite. Othoclase,mica, maybe corundum Ontario Canada 80p £1.50 £2.40
R75 GNEISS granular,black and white mass, no banding Akland Norway 60p £1.20 £2
R72 GNEISS pinkish, showing some banding Scotland 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R71 GNEISS black and white,with some banding. West Scotland 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R29 GRANITE SHAP GRANITE pink porphyry texture Shap Cumbria 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R28 GRANITE RAPAKIVI , circular dark brown- pink feldspars Rapakivi Finland 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R207 GRANITE medium grained white and black Strontian Scotland 80p £1.50 £2.50
R30 GRANITE pink to red feldspars Various locations 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R226 GRANITE porphyry small pink phenocrysts in pinkish-brown Camborne Cornwall 80p £1.50 £2.50 £5
R229 GRANITE PEGMATITE pink feldspar with quartz Durness, Sutherland, Scotland £1.20 £2.50

R26 GRANITE standard material, white feldspar Dartmoor Devon 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R27 GRANITE fairly coarse grey with Biotite Eeppoo Finland 60p £1.20 £2
R234 GRANITE pale grey mass 1x1 50p Mourne Mountains £1


R236 GRANITE pink-brown feldspar and Blue quartz.Cut and polished Brazil £2 £4 £6 £10
R77 GRANITE -GNEISS pinkish-grey, no banding Harris Outer Hebrides 70p £1.50 £2.50
R246 GRANITE Pink medium grained L'Etacq Quarry, Jersey. £1 £2 £3
R252 GRANITE Medium grained grey-black Redhills, Skye 80p £1.50 £2.30 £5
R21 GRANITE white, fine-grained with black Zinnwaldite Glen Gairn East Scotland £2 £4 £8
R168 GRANODIORITE HORNBLENDE, pinkish with hornblende Strontian, Scotland 80p £1.50 £2.50
R221 GRANOPHYRE Pinkish brown mass Carrock area, Cumbria 80p £1.50 £3.00 £6
R247 GRANOPHYRE dark fine grained pinkish mass Fort St Regent,Jersey £1.50 £3 £4.50 £7
R204 GRANULITE pale feldspar, biotite, Polished top no location £1 £2 £3
R31 GREISEN fine grained brownish-yellow Caldbeck fells Cumbria 60p £1.20 £2 £4
R213 GREISEN grey crystalline with mica Cligga Cornwall 60p £1.20 £2.40 £5
R79 HORNFELS Calc-silicate Hornfels Okehampton Devon 50p £1 £1.50
R78 HORNFELS Hard grey black masses Skiddaw Cumbria 60p £1.20 £2
R201 HORNFELS ANDALUSITE rich in pinkish andalusite Brittany France 60p £1.20

R218 HORNFELS-STRIPED grey black striped, quite attractive Mull,Scotland 80p £1.50 £3 £6
R274 IGNIMBRITE brownish-pink partially banded. Dingle Peninsula S. Ireland £1.50 £3 £5
R214 IRONSTONE OOLITIC bits of ammonites in larger sizes .Polished surface Lincolnshire £1.20 £2.50 £4 £6.50
R33 KENTALLENITE dark, patches of Biotite, Type of syenogabbro Kentallen Scotland 60p £1.20 £2.40 £5
R135 KILLAS BANDED grey with brownish veinlets of cassiterite United Downs Mines Cornwall £1.50 £3 £5
R125 LIMESTONE SHELLY. Shows small shells. Jurassic Various 50p 80p £1.50
R114 LIMESTONE grey masses (Carboniferous) Derbyshire 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R116 LIMESTONE CRINOIDAL with parts of Crinoid stems Derbyshire 60p £1.20 £1.80 £4
R117 LIMESTONE Carboniferous, with infilled Jurassic borings Mendips, Somerset 50p £1 £2
R118 LIMESTONE OOLITIC (Jurassic) excellent examples Gloucestershire 50p £1 £1.50 £3
R269 LIMESTONE Grey to brown banded, (Eocene age) Mors, Limfjord, Denmark £1 £2 £4 £8
R249 LIMESTONE grey mass, wedlock limestone Gt. Wenlock, Shropshire 50p £1 £1.50 £3.50
R155 LIMESTONE creamy coloured fine grained Portland Bill Dorset 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R128 LIMESTONE Freshwater Limestone, white mass (Oligocene) Isle of Wight 50p £1 £1.50 £3
R154 MARBLE TALC MARBLE .dolomitic mixed with talc 1x1 inch 50p Madoc Ontario Canada 80p


R82 MARBLE pure white massive Carrara Italy 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R55 MARBLE Iona marble white with greenish yellow areas Iona Scotland 80p £1.50 £2.50
R217 MARBLE SKYE yellow-green in white matrix Skye Scotland 80p £1.50 £2.50
R130 MARL/SILTSTONE red brown mass Aust Glos 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R34 MICROGRANITE fine grained pale brown-grey Hingston Cornwall 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R242 MICROGRANITE fine grained pink mass. Dufton Pike,Cumbria £1 £2 £4
R131 MILLSTONE GRIT pinkish mass. Derbyshire 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R36 MINVERITE grey-black unusual rock from Rock ! Rock, St MInver Cornwall 60p £1.20 £1.80 £4
R132 MUDSTONE hard grey masses Dorset 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R83 MUDSTONE METAMORPHOSED. Dark grey Rostrenen Granite. (aureole of) Brittany France 50p £1

R38 OBSIDIAN Black various locations £1 £2.50 £4
R258 PEGMATITE pinkish with some attached rock Langside, Aberdeenshire,Scotland £1 £2 £3
R39 PEGMATITE white with small pink or green Tourmaline & mica Meldon Aplite Quarry Devon £1.50


R272 PEGMATITE Mainly grey crystalline Albite (Cleavelandite variety) plus minor quartz Varutrask, North Sweden £1.50 £3 £6
R40 PEGMATITE Feldspar and quartz, coarse texture, no mica Various locations 60p £1.20 £2
R220 PEGMATITE -ZIRCON. 2mm size crystals in quartz and or Feldspar Saranac, Ontario, Canada £2 £4 £8
R267 PERIDOTITE Dark green mass with minor hypersthene Harris Scotland £1.50 £3.50 £5
R42 PERIDOTITE Dark green fine grained mass with minor pyrope garnet Almklovdalen, More og Romsdal Norway £2.50 £5 £7.50
R264 PHONOLITE Hard grey mass with small vughs Aris Quarry Namibia £1.50 £3 £4.50
R276 PHYLLITE solid pale brown micaeous mass Belmont, Unst, Shetlands, Scotland £1 £1.50 £3 £6
R84 PHYLLITE fine grained, grey-green showing crenulations Scotland 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R44 PICRITE HORNBLENDE, small cleavages in dark green rock near Skiddaw Cumbria £1 £2 £4
R243 PICRITE Dark grey mass Clicker Tor Quarry,Cornwall £1 £2 £3
R45 PITCHSTONE Grey-green vitreous Arran Scotland. 1x1ins 80p £2 £4

R81 POLYPHANT STONE. Serpentinised Picrite, grey-green , fine grained Polyphant, Cornwall 70p £1.50 £2.50 £5
R49 PORPHYRY RHOMB ,rounded 1cm feldspar in fine grained. A bit sparse ! Hormunds Valla, Sweden 80p £1.50

R231 PORPHYRY QUARTZ, small quartz and feldspar Phenocrysts in matrix Gwennap Cornwall 60p £1.20 £2 £5
R48 PORPHYRY QUARTZ quartz/feldspar in fine grained matrix FRANCE 50p 80p £1.20 £3
R265 PORPHYRY Dark pink, very like the classic rosso antico from Greece Alvdalen, Mora Sweden £2


R47 PORPHYRY QUARTZ . Quartz/feldspar phenocrysts in rock Thirlmere Cumbria 60p £1.20 £2 £4
R43 PORPHYRY ORTHOCLASE Porphyry with pink xl sections Canisp Scotland 80p £1.50 £2.50
R46 PUMICE light weight fawn mass. various locations 70p £1.40

R271 PYROXENITE mass of small black cleavages in matrix Co Antrim £1.50 £3 £4.50
R133 QUARTZITE ORTHOQUARTZITE fine grained, mass, sedimentary Various locations 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R134 QUARTZITE with minor green copper minerals.(Permian age) Cap Garonne, France 50p 90p £1.50 £3
R85 QUARTZITE META QUARTZITE, hard white masses, metamorphic North Wales 60p £1.20 £2 £5
R86 QUARTZITE KYANITE, blue-grey with possible lazulite and or Rutile Horrsjoberg, Sweden £1 £2 £3
R222 QUARTZITE Greyish green , Sedimentary Ighthan Kent 50p £1 £1.50 £3
R51 RHYOLITE Brownish to red-grey with some banding Glencoe or Langdale 50p 80p £1.50
R138 SANDSTONE CALCAREOUS 'Bargate stone' Surrey 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R250 SANDSTONE Aeolian, Orange-brown Penrith Sandstone near Penrith Cumbria 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R141 SANDSTONE TORRIDONIAN fine grained dark pink Loch Torridon Scotland 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R143 SANDSTONE Micaeous.fawn with fine micaeous bands Yorkshire 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R145 SANDSTONE GLAUCONITIC, green spots in calcareous sandstone Surrey 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R151 SANDSTONE ARKOSE, fairly coarse grit stone with pink feldspar North West Scotland £1 £2.20 £3.50
R142 SANDSTONE Red brown mass Cumbria 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R139 SANDSTONE FERRUGINOUS , dark brown mass Various locations 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R137 SANDSTONE brown mass (Cretaceous) Surrey 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R202 SANDSTONE purple-brown mass, (Cambrian) near St David's West Wales 50p £1 £1.50
R170 SCHIST LAZULITE, blue cleavages on schist, large 1x2ins Raidelgraben Austria £4.50


R232 SCHIST pale green, talc-tremolite schist with Magnetite crystal sections Lom Norway £1.20 £2.50 £4 £7
R205 SCHIST GLAUCOPHANE mica schist, some with epdiote Groix Island Brittany £1.50 £3 £4.50
R210 SCHIST silvery(sericite) with possible dark chlorite Kaladar, Ontario 1x1" 90p



R89 SCHIST ANTHOPHYLLITE in schist. Kopparberg Sweden 80p £1.60

R262 SCHIST THULITE making a pink mica schist, attractive Lom Norway £1.20 £3 £4.50
R164 SCHIST OTTRELITE black spots in mica schist Belgium £3 £5 £8
R96 SCHIST HORNBLENDE schist fine grained hornblende in schist. various locations 60p


R90 SCHIST MUSCOVITE-BIOTITE with possible Corundum Norway 1x1ins 50p £1


R88 SCHIST BIOTITE schist , black masses in matrix various locations 50p


R87 SCHIST fawn to silvery layered micaeous mass Various locations 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R91 SCHIST GARNET , with small garnets and black mica Glen Roy, Scotland 50p £1 £1.50
R209 SERPENTINITE greenish mass 1x1 inch £1.20 San Benito County California



R101 SERPENTINITE Dark green mass, possible minor kammererite Unst Shetlands £1.50 £3

R53 SERPENTINITE red-brown mass Lizard Cornwall 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R167 SERPENTINITE pale green masses Scourie Scotland 50p £1

R146 SHALE Grey layered mass Dorset 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R169 SILTSTONE greenish with red leisegange banding.attractive Yorkshire £1 £2 £4
R158 SKARN MANGANOPHYLLITE, mica in calcite-dolomite Langban Sweden 70p £1.50 £2.50 £5
R97 SKARN Amphibole- mica -calcite (contact metamorphism) Ontario Canada 70p £1.50 £2.50
R157 SKARN ANDRADITE andradite in fine grained pyroxene Grua, Norway 60p £1.20 £2
R98 SKARN DIOPSIDE SKARN, diopside with mica Quebec Canada £1.50 £3 £5
R233 SKARN white mass with copper staining 1x1 80p Christmas Mine. Arizona £1.20


R140 SKARN mainly fine grained red-brown granular Almandine Brastad Iron Mine Norway £2.50 £5 £7.50
R219 SKARN 'Tiree Marble' pink calcite with dark green silicates 1x1 £1.50 Tiree £3 £6

R150 SLATE dark grey with GRAPTOLITES near Oslo, Norway £1.50 £3 £4.50
R94 SLATE CHIASTOLITE, thin white crystals in grey slate Cumbria 60p £1.20 £2
R224 SLATE grey cleavable mass Delabole, North Cornwall 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R93 SLATE KILLAS,pink to grey cleavable Devon 50p 80p £1.40 £3
R95 SLATE SPOTTED SLATE, yellowish with black spots edge of Dartmoor, Cornwall 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R92 SLATE standard dark mauve cleavage Wales 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R239 SLATE, wales mauve slate with a 15mm white Reduction spot. with reduction spot

£3
R102 SUEVITE grey-fawn mass Ries Crate Germany £4


R59 SYENITE feldspar, + or - Magnetite/Amphibole/Natrolite Tvedalen Norway 70p £1.50 £2.50
R172 SYENITE LARVIKITE grey, alkali feldspar syenite Larvik Noway 60p £1 £2
R61 SYENITE Catalpleite syenite fine grained green mass Norra Karr Sweden £1 £2 £3 £6
R58 SYENITE AEGIRINE white or pink feldspar with Aegrine Norway 80p £1.50 £2.50
R57 SYENITE grey feldspar, possible Corundum and mica Ontario Canada 60p £1.20

R56 SYENITE fawn feldspar, with biotite/aegirine Ste Hilaire, Quebec 60p £1.20 £2
R62 SYENITE BORROLANITE grey and white feldspar Loch Borrolan Scotland 60p £1 £2 £4
R32 TEPHRITE LEUCITE tephrite;leucite in fine grained basalt Rome Italy 80p £1.50 £3.50
R41 TRACHYTE SANIDINE TRACHYTE, creamy phenocrysts in pale brown matrix Puy de la Tache, Puy de Dome France £1.50 £3 £5
R67 TUFF BANDED. Volcanic ash in banded layers Various locations 60p £1.20 £2
R68 TUFF Green volcanic ash, also called 'greenslate' Borrowdale Cumbria 50p 80p £1.50 £3
R244 TUFF pebbly tuff, fine grained grey-green mass. Wrekin,Shropshire £1.20 £2.50 £4.50
R245 TUFF Dark pink fine grained. Church Stretton, Shropshire £1 £1.50 £2.50
R63 VOGESITE Hornblende Lamprophyre many tiny hornblendes Loch Assynt Scotland 70p £1.50 £2.80