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Cerussite & Galena

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Cerussite & Galena

Ted Bartels collection
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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 3.1 × 2.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with a fracture in galena lined with hundreds of small cerussite crystals. Cerussite is quite rare at Sterling Hill and the best specimens were found in the Passaic Pit in the early 1990s. Ted Bartels collection from Ewald Gerstmann stock. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cerussite

Formula: 
PbCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey

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