Cerussite

  
 
  
Twinned "arrowhead" cerussite crystal
  
Twinned cerussite
Origin: Touissit, Oujda, Morocco
Sample size: 5.5 x 3 x 5 cm (top), 28 x 10 x 35 mm (2nd row left), 4 x 5 x 1.7 cm (2nd row right), 25 x 23 x 40 mm (3rd row left), 6.5 cm in height (3rd row right)
 
  
Terminated colorless transparent prismatic cerussite crystals to 10 mm in length set about a limonite matrix
Origin: Cerussite - Grand Reef mine, Graham Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3.2 x 4 x 3 cm
 
  
Origin: Hull mine, Castle Dome district, Yuma Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 31 x 15 x 13 mm
 
  
Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 18 x 15 x 26 mm
 
  
Cerussite on malachite
Origin: Brown's deposit, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, Australia
Ex Tom Dwyer Collection
Sample size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Sixling twin crystal of cerussite
Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Cerussite with conichalcite on smithsonite
  
 This specimen has a half dozen or so twinned crystals of smoky cerussite to 1.8 cm across. Small calcite crystals coat portions of the cerussite crystals.
  
 This specimen is mostly massive cerussite but it has a thin layer of smaller quartz crystals set on it and subsequent cerussite and duftite.
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 8 x 6.5 x 4 cm (top), 7.4 x 5.5 x 4.2 cm (2nd row), 7.7 x 5.6 x 4.3 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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