£20
Alstonite, High Raise, 2nd Sun Vein, Nentsberry Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, opaque, white, pseudohexagonal crystals to 6mm, with highly lustrous sphalerite and galena crystals on matrix, 110 x 120mm
Alstonite alters to barite readily with all stages from alstonite to barite, so it is better known as pseudoalstonite
Provenance: Udo Harms Collection, Mulheim, Germany; Moorland Minerals 05/1992; Crystal Classics; purchased by the vendor 2013
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