Vanadinite

Description

Vanadinite - light brown spheres scattered over pale botryoidal crust described as calamine or hemimorphite (may be plumbian-apatite) on matrix - from Belton Grain Vein, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire.

Museum reference

G.1994.1.54

Collection

Natural Sciences

Object name

Vanadinite

Collection place(s)

Belton Grain Vein, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Lindsay Greenbank Collection
Nick Carruth Collection
Hunterian Museum Geology Collection
Brown (Lanfine) Collection [Colonel]
Hemimorphite
Apatite, variety plumbian apatite