Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood
Specimen Title
Cerussite.
Principal Mineral
Size
Miniature; 39mm
Location in the Mine
Undetermined
Provenance
Gardner, A.E.
Collection
Geoscience Australia; R22219
Entry Number
Specimen; TSNB866
Description
An incomplete open sixling of colourless-white, glassy, cerussite, with localised inclusions of relict sulphide and a little corroded sulphide matrix. The arms of the sixling are quite stout, but with slender sidecar crystals forming the beginnings of a reticulated twinning network.
Formerly specimen number 219 in the Reverend A.E. Gardner Collection, which was purchased by the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources (now Geoscience Australia) in 1974. There is no record of earlier provenance or location in the mine.