I hope you have found the new website and its photographs interesting and easy to navigate.  It has certainly moved on since its beginning as Rock-site.co.uk in 1999 as one of the first British mineral sites on the web. There is now a further update to Steetley Minerals with another fifty new specimens from classic & contemporary UK and worldwide locations.

The year to date has been productive with trips to the Isle of Skye and Strontian in unseasonably fine April weather  whilst over the Summer I have managed to get some collecting trips in to various North of England sites, some more productive than others.

Some months ago I purchased a large collection of worldwide minerals. These were the collection of David & Peggy Bloch, a Swiss couple who spent much of their life in San Francisco. The collection has numerous fine Mexican, American, Tsumeb and Swiss minerals plus a smattering from other places around the world and an excellent Mexican and American agate collection.  Over the next few months I will be uploading photos of these on to the website whilst some of the specimens are pre-viewed below.

During the 1980’s Strontian Minerals Limited re-worked the Strontian deposit with a view to supplying barite to the North Sea oil industry. Some pictures, which I believe are from 1984, have surfaced of this  mining operation, and I have added them to the Strontian information page.

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