Lautenthalite

  
Origin: Meadowfoot smelter, Wanlockhead, Leadhills, Scottland
Sample size: 1 cm piece with 1 mm vug
 
 
 

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Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Meadowfoot Smelter, Wanlockhead, Leadhills-Wanlockhead District, Dumfries-shire, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, UK
Sample size: 0.7 mm crystal on langite
Owner: Steve Rust
 
  
Origin: Eaglebrook (Nant-Y-Cagel) Mine, Talybont, Ceulanymaesmawr, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: 1 mm crystal group of green lautenthalite in parallel position on a blue crystal of wroewolfeite (left), platy crystals to 0.7 mm, with blue wroewolfeite (right)
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Origin: Brynarian Mine, Tre-Taliesin, Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: crystal groups to 1 mm
Owner: Steve Rust
 
  
Origin: Hendre Felen Mine, Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: 1 mm crystal group with langite (left), 0.6 mm crystal group. Lautenthalite (green) in some form of epitaxial growth on wroewolfeite. (Or the other way round) (right)
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Origin: Dylife Mine (Pen Dylife. Esgairgaled. Llechwedd Ddu), Dylife, Machynlleth, Powys (Montgomeryshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: 0.7 mm green bladed crystal of lautenthalite, with anglesite
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

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