Cerussite

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

  

 

  

This striking specimen is of a pillar of dolomite with a crystal of cerussite. The dark coating on part of the cerussite is jet black mottramite.

  

This specimen is a complete cerussite twinned crystal with the lobes completely filled in so that the snow flake affect is not visible. There is also some minor brochantite on portions of the cerussite surface.

  

 

  

 

  

This specimen is mostly cerussite crystals which are cementing together a calcareous breccia. Some remnants of tennantite have surface alteration minerals including minute linarite.

  

Cyclic twins

  

Cerussite with malachite

Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, Africa

Sample size: 3 x 2.7 x 2.2 cm (top/2nd row), 3.4 x 3 x 1.7 cm (3rd/4th row), 5.8 x 4.7 x 3.4 cm (5th/6th row), 3.9 x 3.4 x 2.3 cm (7th row), 4.3 x 2.8 x 2.1 cm (8th/9th  row), 7.5 x 6 x 4.5 cm (10th row), 6.5 x 5.6 x 4.0 cm (11th/12th row), 6.3 x 4.2 x 2.2 cm (13th/bottom row)

 

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