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Anglesite

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Description
Locality: 
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4.3 × 2 cm
Description

Classic old material from Broken Hill comprising for the most part, masses of white anglesite crystals with some that appear a pink colour at one end due to films of limonite coating some of the crystals.

Under the microscope you will also see some limonite casts of cerussite crystals, now completely dissolved. Botryoidal coronadite is an an accessory mineral. No damage. An interesting specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Anglesite

Formula: 
PbSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
Parys Mountain Copper Mine, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom
Gondwana Minerals