Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood
Specimen Title
Cerussite
Principal Mineral
Size
Cabinet; 53mm
Location in the Mine
Undetermined
Provenance
Latz, C.V.
Collection
Geoscience Australia; R28348
Entry Number
Specimen; TSNB918
Description
Glassy, colourless crystals of twinned and striated cerussite on partly oxidised sulphide ore. The cerussite crystals have a slight brown smokiness close to the junction with the matrix material, presumably due to the presence of minute sulphide inclusions.
The specimen is from the collection of Clement Victor Latz, which was donated to the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources (now Geoscience Australia) in 1976. There is no record of earlier provenance or of location in the mine.