Minerals of Scotland

LEADHILLS & WANLOCKHEAD

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Copper Minerals

including photographs of

Aurichalcite - Brochantite -
Chalcopyrite - Malachite

 

Leadhills and Wanlockhead are not renowned for copper minerals!
Several primary ore species of copper have been recorded and secondary copper species are also found
- and excluding those like linarite or caledonite which have lead as a major constituent.

However, these copper minerals rarely make for interesting hand specimens or display quality pieces.
They are nevertheless of interest to micromounters. Some of the commoner copper species encountered figure below.
   

CHALCOPYRITE - Katystakelinn Vein, Leadhills.
A lustrous 3mm crystal on quartz and ankerite.

AURICHALCITE - Straitsteps Mine, Wanlockhead.
Massive-fibrous aggregate in cavity with blue-banded hemimorphite.
   
     

BROCHANTITE - Leadhills, Lanarkshire.
Emerald-green prisms with royal blue linarite.

MALACHITE - Straitsteps Mine, Wanlockhead.
A fibrous coating to 8mms.

  
     

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Ore & Gangue Species
Galena, Barite, Sphalerite, Quartz, Calcite, Pyrite.

Secondary Zinc Minerals
Hemimorphite - Greenockite - Veszelyite

Secondary Lead Species
Pyromorphite, Vanadinite, Descloizite, Minium.

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Secondary Lead Minerals
Anglesite, Cerussite

Secondary Lead/
Copper Species
Linarite

Scottish Type Locality Species

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Type Locality Species
Caledonite, Leadhillite, Lanarkite

Galloway Region
Dumfries & Kirkcudbright

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