Torr Works Quarry
Cranmore, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
A limestone quarry near East Cranmore, producing crushed aggregate, as well as some interesting mineral specimens.
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Manganite from Torr Works Quarry, Somerset
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Mendipite from Torr Works Quarry, Somerset
Price range: £10.00 through £15.00
The site may also be known as Merehead Quarry.
Mindat lists 67 minerals from the site, including 8 for which it is the type locality – mereheadite, parkinsonite, plumbonacrite, rickturnerite, rumseyite, somersetite, symesite, yeomanite.
Some of the specimens from the site are really rather nice, especially the mendipite.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-1618.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torr_Works
- https://www.holcim.co.uk/location-detail/aggregate-plant-torr
If you are interested in other minerals from nearby locales, we may have stock from the following locations.
Somerset- Cannington Park Quarry, Cannington, Sedgemoor, Somerset
- Gurney Slade Quarry, Binegar, Mendip, Somerset
- Torr Works Quarry, Cranmore, Mendip, Somerset
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