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Day 232 : Cleavelandite, a variety of albite. From Pike’s Peak, Colorado, USA. (Note, whatever the Colorado state legislature might decree, the peak that Zebulon Pike first documented, should have an apostrophe). 

Day 231 : The biotite-muscovite St Austell Granite, from the Tregarden Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall, England.

Day 230 : Solenopora Jurassica, a red alga, probably from the Middle to Upper Bathonian age Beetroot Stone horizon of the White Limestone Formation. From the Fosse Cross Quarry, near Cirencester, England. Keele Collection. 

Day 229 : Folds within marble. Unknown locality. Keele collection.

Day 228 : Shap Granite, with xenolith, from Shap, Cumbria. Keele Collection.

Day 227 : Hastingsite, from Haytor Mine, Haytor, Deveon, England. Cotton collection, Keele.

Day 226 : Tremolite, from a boulder in Glen Elg, Scotland. Keele collection.

Day 225 : Nephrite, from New Zealand. Cotton collection, Keele.

Day 224 : Actinolite, from Switzerland. Cotton collection, Keele.

Day 223 : Actinolite. Locality unknown. Keele collection.