Dolyhir Quarry

Old Radnor, Powys, Wales, UK

An aggregate quarry, now operating as Dolyhir and Strands quarry.

Mindat lists over 80 minerals from the site, including some really quite rare specimens including paralstonite, alstonite, ewaldite, harmotome, and synchysite-Ce.

It is likely one of the most important mineralogical sites in Britain, as the only known English locality for various minerals and the first Welsh locality for various others.

The site is also well known for fossil flora and fauna, and is a SSSI.

 

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If you are interested in other classic British locales we may have stock from the following locales.

British / UK locales

I have only included the pieces attributed to specific places; not simply 'Weardale' for example.
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Angus, Scotland Bridgend, Wales Caerphilly, Wales Cardiff, Wales Ceredigion, Wales Cheshire Clwyd, Wales Conwy, Wales Cornwall County Antrim County Durham Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dumfries and Galloway Gloucestershire Gwynedd, Wales Highlands Isle of Anglesey, Wales Isle of Mull, Scotland Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leicestershire Norfolk North Ayrshire North Somerset North Yorkshire Northumberland Perth and Kinross, Scotland Powys, Wales Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales Shropshire Somerset South Lanarkshire Staffordshire Surrey Vale of Glamorgan West Midlands  

For the rest of our British stock, see below.

United Kingdom

Fossils from Great Britain - Minerals from Great Britain