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Wildlife around Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK & elsewhere, minerals & fossils. Cats (the Addams family) #BerryhillFields. Living with prostate cancer. @CameraObscura on the darkside. All photos ©️ my own unless otherwise stated.

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Radiating aggregates of pyromorphite crystals from Driggith Opencut, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England, UK. #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy #MineralsOfBluesky

06.10.2025 16:27 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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An old-time piece from the English Lake District. Calcite & baryte from Greenside mine, Patterdale, Cumbria, England, UK. Specimen ~ 100 mm wide. Ex. William W. Jefferis & Carnegie Museum of Natural History collections #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

18.08.2025 09:28 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Gomez Addams having a chilled out #Caturday #BlackCat #AdoptDontShop #RescueCat #CatsOfBluesky

16.08.2025 08:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A nice, albeit brief, early morning encounter with a #BarnOwl from a couple of years ago. #BerryhillFields #StokeOnTrent #Staffordshire #birds #ukwildlife #ukbirding #nature #BirdsOfBluesky

11.08.2025 10:37 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A specimen of calcite from Ladywash mine, Eyam, Derbyshire, England, UK. ~ 230 mm tall with single xtals & twins to 25 mm. #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

11.08.2025 09:09 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Morticia Addams #Caturday #AdoptDontShop #CatsAndGuitars #BlackCat #CatsOfBluesky #RescueCats #CatsAndGuitarGear

02.08.2025 10:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One of next door's gremlins sheltering from the sun in my back yard. #caturday #AdoptDontShop #RescueCat #CatsOfBluesky

21.06.2025 10:14 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Amethyst from Calton Hill Quarry, Taddington, Derbyshire, England, UK. Fov~ 40 mm. #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

02.06.2025 19:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A black tom cat with a salmon fillet in his mouth. The salmon was stolen as I was prepping dinner!

A black tom cat with a salmon fillet in his mouth. The salmon was stolen as I was prepping dinner!

Gomez Addams on the rob last night #Caturday #CatBurglar #CuteFurryParasiteStrikesAgain #AdoptDontShop #RescueCat #CatsOfBluesky

31.05.2025 08:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A silicified greisen containing voids after feldspar lined with combinations of cassiterite, quartz & tourmaline. From Cameron quarry, St. Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK. FOV ~ 35 mm. #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy #IgneousPetrology

26.05.2025 11:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A rich specimen of the tin ore cassiterite, SnO2, from Old Beam Mine, Bugle, Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, UK. Specimen ~ 100 mm wide. #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

19.05.2025 14:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Last chemo session today. It's been a gruelling 6 months, but I can't praise highly enough the staff on Ward 202 & my oncology team @UHNM_NHS who've made the process bearable. Love & light to all fellow cancer travellers everywhere.

13.05.2025 19:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A few from Friday & Saturday #StokeOnTrent #Lemmy #Motörhead #IronHorse 3/3

12.05.2025 11:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A few from Friday & Saturday #StokeOnTrent #Lemmy #Motörhead 2/3

12.05.2025 11:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A few from Friday & Saturday #StokeOnTrent #Lemmy #Motörhead 1/3

12.05.2025 11:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A limestone breccia cemented by purple fluorite. From the replacement orebody on the north side of the Dirtlow Rake vein. From Laporte Minerals openpit, Dirtlow Rake, Castleton, Derbyshire, England, UK. Specimen ~ 95 mm wide. #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

05.05.2025 11:06 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A brown botryoidal crust of the zinc carbonate smithsonite on purple fluorite from Balleye mine, Cromford, Derbyshire, England, UK. Specimen ~ 70 mm wide. #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

05.05.2025 10:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I managed a dawn stroll up #BerryhillFields this morning for the first time in a while. The swallows are back & I did spot a male stonechat & heard a couple of grasshopper warblers #StokeOnTrent #Staffordshire #birds #mist

30.04.2025 11:24 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I missed #Caturday, so here's Morticia Addams in a small box. #AdoptDontShop #CatsInBoxes #CatsOfBluesky #RescueCats

27.04.2025 14:51 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Brown smithsonite pseudomorph after calcite from Balleye mine, Cromford, Derbyshire, England, UK. FOV ~ 40 mm. #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

21.04.2025 14:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Brown botryoidal smithsonite on purple fluorite from Balleye mine, Cromford, Derbyshire, England, UK. Specimen ~ 60 mm wide. #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

21.04.2025 14:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fluorite, galena, sphalerite & siderite from Allenheads Mine (Beaumont Mine), Allendale, Northumberland, England, UK. 1st image largest xtal 18 mm. 2nd image fov ~ 80 mm. #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

21.04.2025 14:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A Little Ringed Plover (1 of 2 seen) foraging next to Botteslow Flash yesterday. #BerryhillFields #StokeOnTrent #Staffordshire #birds #ukwildlife #ukbirding #nature #BirdsOfBluesky

21.04.2025 13:45 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Morticia Addams showing her appreciation of my nephew's guitar playing #Caturday #CatsOfTwitter #AdoptDontShop #CatsAndGuitars #BlackCat #CatsOfBluesky #RescueCats #CatsAndGuitarGear

19.04.2025 11:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Calcite crystals in parallel growth from Ladywash mine, Eyam, Derbyshire, England, UK. #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

14.04.2025 13:52 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A lemon yellow twinned #fluorite group, modified by faces of the hexoctahedron, nestled amongst regular cubes. From Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria. FOV ~ 22 mm. #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

14.04.2025 13:49 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A group of translucent to transparent, pale green, chisel-terminated baryte crystals associated with a little dolomite.

A group of translucent to transparent, pale green, chisel-terminated baryte crystals associated with a little dolomite.

A specimen of #baryte from Frizington, Cumbria, UK for #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

31.03.2025 16:15 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Transverse section across two intergrown baryte pseudostalactites. There is colour zoning from dark pink in the centres to pale pink towards the outer margin. The hollow tubular centres are lined with a later generation of tiny baryte crystals. There are some fine-grained galena inclusions towards the outer rim of the specimen. There are also some tiny marcasite inclusions altered to goethite. Specimen 49 mm wide.

Transverse section across two intergrown baryte pseudostalactites. There is colour zoning from dark pink in the centres to pale pink towards the outer margin. The hollow tubular centres are lined with a later generation of tiny baryte crystals. There are some fine-grained galena inclusions towards the outer rim of the specimen. There are also some tiny marcasite inclusions altered to goethite. Specimen 49 mm wide.

Cut and polished transverse section across a pseudostalactite of baryte. Colour-zoned from dark pink in the centre to pale pink towards the margin.There is some galena included towards the edge of the specimen along with tiny marcasite inclusions altered to goethite. Diameter 26 mm. The particular pseudostalactite this specimen was taken from was some 180 mm long.

Cut and polished transverse section across a pseudostalactite of baryte. Colour-zoned from dark pink in the centre to pale pink towards the margin.There is some galena included towards the edge of the specimen along with tiny marcasite inclusions altered to goethite. Diameter 26 mm. The particular pseudostalactite this specimen was taken from was some 180 mm long.

Polished slice of baryte displaying pale pink arborescent baryte overgrown by colourless coarse crystals intergrown with layers of fine-grained pink baryte. A fracture surface on the left of the specimen cuts across the baryte layers and is coated with brown calcite. Specimen 50 mm wide.

Polished slice of baryte displaying pale pink arborescent baryte overgrown by colourless coarse crystals intergrown with layers of fine-grained pink baryte. A fracture surface on the left of the specimen cuts across the baryte layers and is coated with brown calcite. Specimen 50 mm wide.

Polished slice of baryte displaying, from right to left, pale pink arborescent baryte overgrown by colourless coarse crystals, which in turn are overgrown by alternating layers of fine grained pink baryte and more coarsely crystalline material. Specimen 53 mm wide.

Polished slice of baryte displaying, from right to left, pale pink arborescent baryte overgrown by colourless coarse crystals, which in turn are overgrown by alternating layers of fine grained pink baryte and more coarsely crystalline material. Specimen 53 mm wide.

Polished specimens of the barium sulphate #baryte from Laporte's openpit on Dirtlow Rake, Castleton, Derbyshire, UK for #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

31.03.2025 15:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Intergrown pink columns of pseudostalactitic baryte from Dirtlow Rake, Castleton, Derbyshire. ~ 120 mm wide.

Intergrown pink columns of pseudostalactitic baryte from Dirtlow Rake, Castleton, Derbyshire. ~ 120 mm wide.

Sheaves of pale pink baryte blades intergrown with colourless calcite rhombs with red hematite inclusions from Taff's Well Quarry, Pentyrch, Cardiff, Wales. ~ 63 mm wide.

Sheaves of pale pink baryte blades intergrown with colourless calcite rhombs with red hematite inclusions from Taff's Well Quarry, Pentyrch, Cardiff, Wales. ~ 63 mm wide.

A mass of intergrown grey baryte blades from Masson Hill Quarry, Matlock, Derbyshire.

A mass of intergrown grey baryte blades from Masson Hill Quarry, Matlock, Derbyshire.

Block crystals of white baryte & a single rounded yellowish orange crystal of mimmetite. All on quartz crystals coated in black manganese oxide/hydroxides. From Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Fov ~ 20 mm (ish)

Block crystals of white baryte & a single rounded yellowish orange crystal of mimmetite. All on quartz crystals coated in black manganese oxide/hydroxides. From Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Fov ~ 20 mm (ish)

A selection of UK specimens of the barium sulphate #baryte for #MineralMonday #Minerals #Geology #EarthScience #mineralogy

31.03.2025 10:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gomez Addams helping with the recycling by making a nest in it! #Caturday #CatsOfTwitter #AdoptDontShop #BlackCat #CatsOfBluesky #RescueCats

29.03.2025 11:52 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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