AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Mexico > Cerussite-Anglesite pseudomorph after Galena with Linarite, Brochantite, Quartz |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 58937 |
Mineral: | Cerussite-Anglesite pseudomorph after Galena with Linarite, Brochantite, Quartz |
Locality: | Hanover District, Bingham, Grant County, New Mexico |
Description: | Lustrous colorless-to-gray anglesite-cerussite pseudomorph after a 25 mm rectangular galena crystal with vivid-blue linarite crystals to 3 mm and green brochantite microcrystals plus minor quartz. The galena completely altered to cerussite and anglesite. Ex. B. Gaber collection #543; ex. Paul Pohwat collection #389 (Mineral Collection Manager at Smithsonian) |
Overall Size: | 3.5x2.5x2.5 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 3 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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