ROCKS " A to Z"
REFERENCE No NAME DESCRIPTION LOCATION sizes 1x2 are 2x2 in 2x3 inches 3x4
R64 AGGLOMERATE angular fragments in matrix, Various 40p 80p £1.50
R260 AGGLOMERATE Coarse fragments 2 to 3cm size in matrix. Langdale Cumbria
£1.50 £3.00 £6
R65 AGGLOMERATE fragments in matrix, not too obvious. Ardnamurchan 70p £1.50 £2.20
R1 ALNOITE A rare type of Carbonatite,with mica, feldspar,apatite Alno Island, Sweden 80p £1.50 £3 £6
R10 ANDESITE PORPHYRY, pale , very rich in ANDESINE South of France £1.50 £3 £5 £8
R2 ANDESITE Grey brown with many small white phenocrysts Gatesgarth,Buttermere,Cumbria 80p £1.50 £2.50 £5
R4 ANORTHOSITE PEGMATITE pinkish plagioclase cleavages in feldspar Near Kragero Norway 70p 1.40 2.50 £4
R70 ANORTHOSITE Garnet anorthosite, rich almandine in feldspar, small 1x2 Harris, Outer Hebrides £1


R5 APLITE Fine grained creamy masses Brittany France 40p 80p £1.50
R230 APLITE fine grained white mass Meldon Devon 60p £1.20 £2 £4
R80 AXINITE ROCK mainly rich axinite Meldon, Okehmpton, Devon 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R6 BASALT Black compact mass Skye Scotland 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R7 BASALT Good standard amygdaloidal material Skye Scotland 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R261 BASALT with OLIVINE ; pale mass with scattered spots of olivine Mitsukosi,Hizen,Saga Pre., Japan £2.50 £5 £8
R223 BASALT with phenocrysts of Olivine and Augite Edinburgh Scotland 80p £1.50 £2.50
R9 BASALT with AUGITE. Black phenocrysts in dark basalt Ayrshire Scotland 60p £1.20

R171 BONE BED Conglomeritic , small bones in matrix. Gloucestershire 1x1inch 50p £1.10 £2.20

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 £2.20 £4.50

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 40p 70p £1 £2
R215 CHALK SILICIFIED hard white masses with cherty area Gribun , Mull £1 £2 £3
R107 CHALK, RED pure red-brown like bauxite Hunstanton Norfolk 40p 80p £1.50
R108 CLAY brown-grey masses in plastic bag Surrey 40p 80p

R110 CONGLOMERATE Round pebbles in silicaeous matrix. Excellent material Hertfordshire "Pud" 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R273 DACITE Altered fawn mass with white phenocrysts, Limerick Point, County Antrim, N.Ireland £1.50 £3

R14 DIORITE Reddish-green Mountsorrel, Leicestershire 40p 80p £1.50
R15 DIORITE grey-green fairly fine texture Cockermouth Cumbria 60p £1 £1.50 £3
R17 DIORITE black and white , coarser than R15 Kentallen, Scotland 70p £1.40

R251 DIORITE Fairly fine grained black-grey mass vallee des Vaux, Jersey £1 £2

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 40p 80p £1.50 £3
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
R136 ECLOGITE RETROGRESSED , + garnets and creamy epidote coatings. Zermatt, Switzerland £3 £6 £10 £16
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
R25 GABBRO Teschenite fairly fine grained black and white. Lugar Scotland 60p £1 £1.50 £3
R200 GABBRO coarse masses Lizard Cornwall 60p £1.20 £2 £5
R24 GABBRO Quartz gabbro about 6mm grain size Ardnamurchan Scotland 80p £1.50

R22 GABBRO Black and white medium texture Caldbeck Fells Cumbria 50p £1 £1.50
R248 GABBRO Grey-green medium grained Dolgellau, Wales 80p £1.50 £2.50 £6
R23 GABBRO Hypersthene dark masses Ardnamurchan Scotland £1


R71 GNEISS black and white,with some banding. West Scotland 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R76 GNEISS Scapolite. Othoclase,mica, maybe corundum Ontario Canada 80p £1.50 £2.40
R72 GNEISS pinkish, showing some banding Scotland 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R75 GNEISS granular,black and white mass, no banding Akland Norway 60p £1.20 £2
R226 GRANITE porphyry small pink phenocrysts in pinkish-brown Cambourne Cornwall 80p £1.50 £2.50 £5
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
R77 GRANITE -GNEISS pinkish-grey, no banding Harris Outer Hebrides Scotland 70p £1.40 £2
R28 GRANITE RAPAKIVI , circular dark brown- pink feldspars Rapakivi Finland 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R207 GRANITE medium grained white and black Strontian Scotland 80p £1.50 £2.50
R29 GRANITE SHAP GRANITE pink porphyry texture Shap Cumbria 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R229 GRANITE PEGMATITE pink feldspar with quartz Durness, Sutherland, Scotland £1.20 £2.50

R27 GRANITE fairly coarse grey with Biotite Eeppoo Finland 60p £1.10 £1.80
R30 GRANITE pink to red feldspars Various locations 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R234 GRANITE pale grey mass 1x1 50p Mourne Mountains .N.Ireland £1


R21 GRANITE white, fine-grained with black Zinnwaldite Glen Gairn East Scotland £2 £4 £8
R236 GRANITE pink-brown feldspar and Blue quartz.Cut and polished Brazil £2 £4 £6 £10
R26 GRANITE standard material, white feldspar Dartmoor Devon 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
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
R257 GRAPHIC GRANITE quartz in white Feldspar Outer Hebrides £1.50 £3

R213 GREISEN grey crystalline with mica Cligga Cornwall 60p £1.20 £2.40 £3
R31 GREISEN fine grained brownish-yellow Grainsgill Caldbeck fells Cumbria 60p £1.20 £2 £3
R162 HORNFELS BANDED, grey to pale brown banded Bovey Tracey, Devon 90p £1.50 £3
R79 HORNFELS Calc-silicate Hornfels Okehampton Devon 50p £1 £1.50
R201 HORNFELS ANDALUSITE rich in pinkish andalusite Brittany France 60p £1.20

R78 HORNFELS Hard grey black masses Skiddaw Cumbria 50p £1 £1.50
R218 HORNFELS-STRIPED grey black striped, quite attractive Mull,Scotland 80p £1.50 £3 £6
R268 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
R269 LIMESTONE Grey to brown banded, (Eocene age) Mors, Limfjord, Denmark £1 £2 £4 £8
R114 LIMESTONE grey masses (Carboniferous) Derbyshire 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R116 LIMESTONE CRINOIDAL with parts of Crinoid stems Derbyshire 50p £1 £1.50 £3
R118 LIMESTONE OOLITIC (Jurassic) excellent examples Gloucestershire 50p £1 £1.50 £3
R117 LIMESTONE Carboniferous, with infilled Jurassic borings Mendips, Somerset 50p £1 £2
R125 LIMESTONE SHELLY. Shows small shells. Jurassic Various 40p 70p £1.50
R249 LIMESTONE grey mass, wedlock limestone Gt. Wenlock, Shropshire 50p £1 £1.50 £3.50
R155 LIMESTONE creamy coloured fine grained Portland Bill Dorset 40p 70p £1.50 £3
R128 LIMESTONE Freshwater Limestone, white mass (Oligocene) Isle of Wight 50p £1 £1.50 £3
R253 MARBLE Ledmore Marble, white mass with some yellow areas Ledmore, Assynt, Scotland £1.50 £2

R154 MARBLE TALC MARBLE .dolomitic mixed with talc 1x1 inch 50p Madoc Ontario Canada 80p


R82 MARBLE pure white massive Carrara Italy 40p 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 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R34 MICROGRANITE fine grained pale brown-grey Hingston Cornwall 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R242 MICROGRANITE fine grained pink mass. Dufton Pike,Cumbria £1 £2 £4
R131 MILLSTONE GRIT pinkish mass. Derbyshire 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R36 MINVERITE grey-black unusual rock from Rock ! Rock, St MInver Cornwall 50p 90p £1.50 £3
R132 MUDSTONE hard grey masses Dorset 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R83 MUDSTONE METAMORPHOSED. Dark grey Rostrenen Granite. (aureole of) Brittany France 50p £1

R37 NORITE black fairly fine-grained mass Huntly Aberdeenshire Scotland 60p £1.20

R38 OBSIDIAN Black various locations £1 £2.50 £4
R220 PEGMATITE -ZIRCON. 2mm size crystals in quartz and or Feldspar Saranac, Ontario, Canada £2 £4 £8
R40 PEGMATITE Feldspar and quartz, coarse texture, no mica Various locations 60p £1.20 £2
R272 PEGMATITE Mainly grey crystalline Albite (Cleavelandite variety) plus minor quartz Varutrask, North Sweden £1.50 £3 £6
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 £1.20


R267 PERIDOTITE Dark green mass with minor hypersthene Harris Scotland £1.50 £3 £4.50
R264 PHONOLITE Hard grey mass with small vughs Aris Quarry Namibia £1.50 £3 £4.50
R84 PHYLLITE fine grained, grey-green showing crenulations Scotland 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R44 PICRITE HORNBLENDE, small cleavages in dark green rock near Skiddaw Cumbria £1 £2 £3.80
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 60p £1.20 £2 £4
R231 PORPHYRY QUARTZ, small quartz and feldspar Phenocrysts in matrix Gwennap Cornwall 60p £1.20 £2 £5
R43 PORPHYRY ORTHOCLASE Porphyry with pink xl sections Canisp Scotland 70p £1.40 £2.50
R47 PORPHYRY QUARTZ . Quartz/feldspar phenocrysts in rock Thirlmere Cumbria 60p £1.20 £2 £4
R48 PORPHYRY QUARTZ quartz/feldspar in fine grained matrix FRANCE 40p 80p £1.20 £3
R265 PORPHYRY Dark pink, very like the classic rosso antico from Greece Alvdalen, Mora Sweden £2


R49 PORPHYRY RHOMB ,rounded 1cm feldspar in fine grained. A bit sparse ! Hormunds Valla, Sweden 80p £1.50

R46 PUMICE light weight fawn mass. various locations 60p £1.20

R271 PYROXENITE mass of small black cleavages in matrix Co Antrim £1.50 £3 £4.50
R86 QUARTZITE KYANITE, blue-grey with possible lazulite and or Rutile Horrsjoberg, Sweden 90p £2 £3
R268 QUARTZITE BANDED creamy-white mass, with micaeous bands Ben More Sutherland Scotland £1.50 £3 £5
R85 QUARTZITE META QUARTZITE, hard white masses, metamorphic Scotland 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R133 QUARTZITE ORTHOQUARTZITE fine grained, mass, sedimentary Various locations 40p 70p £1.50 £2
R222 QUARTZITE Greyish green , Sedimentary Ighthan Kent 50p £1 £1.50 £3
R134 QUARTZITE with minor green copper minerals.(Permian age) Cap Garonne, France 50p 90p £1.50 £3
R51 RHYOLITE Brownish to red-grey with some banding Glencoe or Langdale 40p 80p £1.50
R250 SANDSTONE Aeolian, Orange-brown Penrith Sandstone near Penrith Cumbria 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R202 SANDSTONE purple-brown mass, (Cambrian) near St David's West Wales 50p £1 £1.50
R145 SANDSTONE GLAUCONITIC, green spots in calcareous sandstone Surrey 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R141 SANDSTONE TORRIDONIAN fine grained dark pink Loch Torridon Scotland 50p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R139 SANDSTONE FERRUGINOUS , dark brown mass Various locations 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R138 SANDSTONE CALCAREOUS 'Bargate stone' Surrey 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R137 SANDSTONE brown mass (Cretaceous) Surrey 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R151 SANDSTONE ARKOSE, fairly coarse grit stone with pink feldspar North West Scotland £1 £2 £3.50
R142 SANDSTONE Red brown mass Cumbria 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R143 SANDSTONE Micaeous.fawn with fine micaeous bands Yorkshire 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
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 £2.50 £3.50 £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



R165 SCHIST ANDALUSITE, mix of andalusite, mica ,quartz Minho Portugal £1 £2.20

R235 SCHIST with Amphibole/Magnetite and Garnet. Dark brown masses Carr Brae, Loch Duich,Scotland £1 £2.50 £3.50
R262 SCHIST THULITE making a pink mica schist, attractive Lom Norway £1.20 £3 £4.50
R89 SCHIST ANTHOPHYLLITE in schist. Kopparberg Sweden 80p £1.60

R91 SCHIST GARNET , with small garnets and black mica Glen Roy, Scotland 50p £1 £1.50
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 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R96 SCHIST HORNBLENDE schist fine grained hornblende in schist. various locations 60p


R164 SCHIST OTTRELITE black spots in mica schist Belgium £3 £5 £8
R101 SERPENTINITE Dark green mass, possible minor kammererite Unst Shetlands £1.50 £3

R53 SERPENTINITE red-brown mass Lizard Cornwall 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R166 SERPENTINITE with BRONZITE , small plates in dark rock Lizard Cornwall £1.50 £3 £6
R167 SERPENTINITE pale green masses Scourie Scotland 50p £1

R209 SERPENTINITE greenish mass 1x1 inch £1.20 San Benito County California



R146 SHALE Grey layered mass Dorset 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R169 SILTSTONE greenish with red leisegange banding.attractive Yorkshire
£1.50 £3
R140 SKARN mainly fine grained red-brown granular Almandine Brastad Iron Mine Norway £2.50 £5 £7.50
R98 SKARN DIOPSIDE SKARN, diopside with calcite Quebec Canada 80p £1.50 £2.50
R157 SKARN ANDRADITE andradite in fine grained pyroxene Grua, Norway 60p £1.20 £2
R158 SKARN MANGANOPHYLLITE, mica in calcite-dolomite Langban Sweden 70p £1.40 £2.50 £4
R233 SKARN white mass with copper staining 1x1 80p Christmas Mine. Arizona £1.20


R97 SKARN Amphibole- mica -calcite (contact metamorphism) Ontario Canada 70p £1.20 £2.20
R219 SKARN 'Tiree Marble' pink calcite with dark green silicates 1x1 £1.50 Tiree £3 £6

R224 SLATE grey cleavable mass Delabole, North Cornwall 40p 70p £1.20 £2.50
R92 SLATE standard dark mauve cleavage Wales 40p 70p £1.50 £2.50
R93 SLATE KILLAS,pink to grey cleavable Devon 50p 80p £1.40 £3
R150 SLATE dark grey with GRAPTOLITES Slemmstad, near Oslo, Norway £1.50 £3 £4.50
R94 SLATE CHIASTOLITE, thin white crystals in grey slate Cumbria 50p £1 £1.50
R95 SLATE SPOTTED SLATE, yellowish with black spots edge of Dartmoor, Cornwall 40p 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 £1.40 £2.50
R263 SYENITE CANCRINITE yellow in fine grained grey syenite. Tvedalen, near Larvik, Norway £3


R61 SYENITE Catalpleite syenite fine grained green mass Norra Karr Sweden 80p £1.50 £3 £6
R172 SYENITE LARVIKITE grey, alkali feldspar syenite Larvik Noway 50p 90p £1.50
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 50p £1

R56 SYENITE fawn feldspar, with biotite/aegirine Ste Hilaire, Quebec, Canada 60p £1.20p £2
R62 SYENITE BORROLANITE grey and white feldspar Loch Borrolan Scotland 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R32 TEPHRITE LEUCITE tephrite;leucite in fine grained basalt Rome Italy 70p £1.50 £3
R227 TONALITE black and white, medium grain Dalbeattie,Scotyland £1 £2

R67 TUFF BANDED. Volcanic ash in banded layers Various locations 60p £1 £1.80 £3.60
R244 TUFF pebbly tuff, fine grained grey-green mass. Forest Glen, Wrekin,Shropshire £1.20 £2.50 £4.50
R245 TUFF Dark pink fine grained. Near Church Stretton, Shropshire 80p £1.50 £2.30
R68 TUFF Green volcanic ash, also called 'greenslate' Borrowdale Cumbria 40p 80p £1.50 £3
R63 VOGESITE Hornblende Lamprophyre many tiny hornblendes Loch Assynt Scotland 70p £1.40 £2.80