I’ve been unpacking some of our large minerals with our volunteers and we came across this fantastic Crystal Cave (also called a spar box). This amazing specimen was donated in 1998. The donor said that it belonged to her grandfather, Isaac Hartley who was a miner at Stank Mine in Cumbria in the 1880s. Isaac [...]
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