Is the display titled: "Whither Witherite?"
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From: Ian Forbes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 2:13 PM
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Subject: Re: Witherite.
The type locality for witherite is unknown, and I guess will remain so.
Withering could have obtained his witherite from a number of sources -
those
of us who live and work in the North Pennines like to think it was
probably
from our neck of the woods! The Friends of Killhope are currently
preparing a permanent display of North Pennine minerals and their uses
which
will be on show at Killhope when the museum re-opens at Easter.
Amongst
the specimens will be some good examples of witherite from the North
Pennine
orefield.
Ian Forbes
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