Leadhillite

  
Light blue, barrel shaped micro crystals to about 1 mm with wulfenite
Origin: Mammoth mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, United States
Sample size: 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
 
  
Thin colourless platy crystals to 4 mm in vug but fractured. Associated with micro pyromorphite.
Origin: Leadhills, Scotland (type locality)
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
 
  
Leadhillite on and pseudomorph after cerussite
Origin: Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6.0 x 4.0 x 3.4 cm (top/2nd row), 5.8 x 3.8 x 3.4 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Ex. M. Dodge collection
Sample size: 2.4 x 2.2 x 1.8 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Origin: Beer Cellar mine, Granby, Newton Co., Missouri, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3 x 3.5 x 2.6 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

Origin: Hilton Mine, Scordale, Hilton, Escarpment District, North Pennines, Cumbria, England, UK
Sample size: 1 mm crystal group. (although unconfirmed the "hexagonal" crystal form would appear to be fairly conclusive)
Owner: Steve Rust
 
  
  
Origin: Horners vein, Leadhills, Leadhills-Wanlockhead District, Lanarkshire, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Sample size: 1.5 mm crystal (top left), 0.7 mm crystal (top right), 0.7 mm crystal (bottom left), leadhillite area 8 mm (bottom right)
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

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