Mineralogy Collections

The Lapworth Museum contains approximately 12,000 minerals with many specimens displaying stunning colours, shapes and crystal forms. They were collected from many locations worldwide, but contain particularly fine examples from the British mining areas of Cornwall, Cumbria, Shropshire and Wanlockhead. The specimens include many from collections dating back to the eighteenth and nineteenth century, and from mines long since closed. The collections include material from famous geologists, scientists, collectors and mineral dealers, and there is a large amount of archival material associated with many of the individual collections and specimens.

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