A guide to growing large and flawless salt crystals

[Richard_Kirk]

@MikeR

I used to have some lovely pieces of pegmatite containing beautiful black tourmaline (schorl), massive sheets of silver lithium micas like phlogopite and perfect pale green apatite I collected from a landslide at Megilligar Rocks in West Cornwall - I wonder where that ended up in all my moves over the years?

Dang. I have been going to Cornwall for my holidays all my life and never found any crystals. North Cornwall may not have as many as the south, but maybe I am not trying hard enough. I could pick up any number of crystals at Arthurian woo-mongers, but That Is Not The Same Thing.