Geological specimen
Category
Natural History / Geology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Malachite
Measurements
56 mm (L); 46 mm (W); 30 mm (D)
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Biddulph Grange Garden, Staffordshire
NT 104412.1
Summary
One of two geological specimens of malacite (copper carbonate), probably from the Alderley Edge Copper Mine.
Provenance
Believed to have been recovered from the geological gallery at Biddulph by John Stanley (formerly of Keele University Geological Department) circa 1965 and donated to the Trust in 1988.