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Anglesite On Cerussite

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Anglesite On Cerussite

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Description
Locality: 
Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.6 × 1.8 cm
Description

Blades of cerussite crystals are encrusted with a sherry to pale orange coloured and greenish  anglesite, collected on the 230m bench in 1989, unremarkable you may say.

That is until they are exposed to sunshine light, upon exposure, rapidly change to blue or bluish grey in colour. With prolonged exposure the anglesite turn white, this change however is not permanent, and once storee in the dark will revert to their original tanslucent sherry and pale orange in colour.

 

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

Cerussite

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

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