Bardon Hill Quarry
Bardon, North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, England, UK
Bardon Hill Quarry is an active aggregate quarry in Leicestershire which periodically dug through areas of mineralisation.
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Vésigniéite and Malachite from Bardon Hill Quarry, Leicestershire
Price range: £12.50 through £20.00
The site is a SSSI (site of special scientific interest) for intrusive and extrusive Precambrian strata; it is a potential feature of the proposed Charnwood Geopark in the future.
There is no public access to the site, although I was given a quick tour of the quarry a few years ago as we picked out stones for a local war memorial which were donated by Bardon Aggregate – the site now seems to be owned by Holcim.
The only specimens I have ever seen from Bardon Hill Quarry were dated to the 1970s or earlier; I do not expect many specimens to come to market in future other than those from older collections.
Further reading
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-1586.html
- https://www.orr.gov.uk/search-news/rock-ages-visit-historic-bardon-hill-quarry
If you are interested in other minerals from nearby locales, we may have stock from the following locations.
Leicestershire- Bardon Hill Quarry, Bardon, North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire
- Breedon Hill Quarry, Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire
- Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire
- Mountsorrel Quarry, Quorn, Charnwood, Leicestershire
- New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton under Bardon, Leicestershire
- Newhurst Quarry, Shepshed, Leicestershire
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