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Mineral Specimens with Leadhillite
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This unusual specimen is comprised of tabular cerussite crystals which have been altered to pale blue, leadhillite. I have NEVER seen the like! THis is a very rare piece! Sitting in a vug is a composite unaltered leadhillite crystal which is lustrous and which exhibits the most beautiful pastel blue color. The unaltered crystal measures 1.0cm across and pseudos measure up to 3.0 cm across (some with minor edge damage). It is a beautiful piece overall. This deposit, over its history, has produced many surprising secondary specimens like this one. 5.8 x 3.8 x 3.4 cm
A very large and heavy specimen containing a rich assemblage specimen of the Leadhills minerals, featuring what are surely very rich Lanarkite crystals (greenish blades, matching photos on MINDAT quite nicely) in a rich concentration. Also associated are other mienrals including, if I read them right, mimetite, pyromorphite, and malachite with leadhillite as well. The back is richly coated with a yellow mineral, perhaps mimetite. The piece is very rich in crystalline material in vugs throughout, some of which I am assuming is leadhillite and relatives - though I have not analysed this, it should be noted, and it is offered "as is" with lanarkite being the major constituent of value and a certainty. The other species are a bonus!
Sharp, gemmy, razor-thin crystals of transparent leadhillite, grown inside a protective vug of heavy galena which seems to be partially altered to cerussite. This is a whole nodule or vug, with the inside pocket intact.
A significant rarity, platy yellow leadhillite crystals on a matrix of sparkling white calcite, from this classic old Italian locale.
A super specimen for the locality primarily because it shows such a wonderful association of all the minerals found here, and it is PRETTY to boot. I have never seen such a nice combo piece for sale of minerals from this locality, for overall visual impact. The whole mineralogical environment is here...from the primary galena on the left, to its secondary oxidation products: a pocket of pyro and cerussite in the middle where phosphate must have been present; and stranger and more rare chemistry occurring in the next oxidation layer over to the right, with flat-laying leadhillite (and probably susannite as well) having formed from some of the minerals present in the galena ore on that side. Historic, and I think important.
Stepped leadhillite crystals with a classic but still very rare blue color, form what seems to be a cast after a now-missing cerussite crystal that would have lent a sharp and organized template for growth of the overlaying leadhillite which might not otherwise be there. From the front, it look slike a single primary leadhillite crystal of shocking size and quality...and indeed, it may be that, if not a cast after cerussite. Either way, its beautiful example of this rare species from one of the most desired locales for leadhillite. I would bet that most people do not have comparable in their collections, certainly, for sheer beauty and for the locality. Ex. Tim Sherburn collection.
A 7 mm sharp crystal of leadhillite with classic greenish color, perched in a protected vug in cerussite matrix. Although small, this is a SUPERB, incredibly sharp crystal for the locality. Beer Cellar leadhillites are one of those holy grails of a US collector. I have seen 6 in my life, perhaps, and owned 3 (all thumbnails, in tthe past). Ex ER Chadbourn Collection.This piece came to me with the George Feist collection recently, and was his best quality specimen of the old material dating to the late 1800s and very early 1900s. The Feist collection was known as a very significant US locality suite for MidWest minerals.
This unusual specimen is comprised of tabular cerussite crystals which have been altered to pale blue, leadhillite. I have NEVER seen the like! THis is a very rare piece! Sitting in a vug is a composite unaltered leadhillite crystal which is lustrous and which exhibits the most beautiful pastel blue color. The unaltered crystal measures 1.0cm across and pseudos measure up to 3.0 cm across (some with minor edge damage). It is a beautiful piece overall. This deposit, over its history, has produced many surprising secondary specimens like this one.
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