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Article: Letters.
- Article from:
- The Mineralogical Record
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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BOTALLACKITE--A LOCALITY CORRECTION
A fair quantity of superbly crystallized botallackite reached the market during and after the mid 1960's via the late Cornish mineral dealer Richard (Dick) W. Barstow. It is invariably listed and labeled as coming from the old Botallack mine, a site totally inaccessible and flooded for over 100 years. Because I was personally involved in collecting this material I would like to set the record straight regarding the correct locality.
Dick Barstow and I had been allowed access to the site of the actual occurrence and were permitted to collect specimen material, ostensibly for our own collections and for investigative ...