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Cerussite

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Description
Locality: 
Trevellance Mine, Bolingey, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 4.7 × 2.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

I got this specimen more than 10 years ago from the dissapeared dealer Baikal Geo (Madrid). It consists in a rich group of fibrous to prismatic aggregates of brilliant, transparent to white cerussite on a goethite matrix. This specimen is labeled from Trevellance mine, a very old Cornish mine worked for some time during the 1840's. Very interesting specimen from a rare English locality.

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