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Collectors minerals from Ireland The hard to find cadmium variety of Smithsonite - from the Shesdonell mine in Co.Clare. Yellow Smithsonite is also known as Turkey Fat Ore. Smithsonite has a soft, gentle, joyful, healing energy. It is said to help heal all stress related conditions and to help with recovery from a nervous breakdown and make one more extrovert, Its gentle presence is good for convalescence and for providing a buffer against life's problems. We have a few peices of this now rare mineral starting at € 35 please enquire
Connellite, a relatively uncommon secondary copper mineral named after Arthur Connell, who first studied the mineral, it is a blue-green colour; blue in transmitted light. It has similar healing properties to azurite.
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Connemara Marble
Connemara marble is one of the rarest marbles in the world and is found exclusively in the West of Ireland. Mined from family controlled quarries near Galway Bay. it is becoming increasingly rare. The world's only truly green marble it varies in colour from creamy pale green to shades of sage and moss, with no two pieces being similar. Originally deposited near the end of the Precambrian era, about 600 million years ago. It is extremely hard, polishes well and resists staining. Often called Ireland's national gemstone and used for centuries in jewellery making, as a means of exchange, for fixtures in stately buildings it is the traditional gift between families who vow friendship through generations.
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