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My Mineral Collection, Lead Minerals Page

This is my lead mineral collection. This is one of my larger pages - there are so many lead minerals, especially the sulfosalts, and so many color varieties!
Lead Minerals on Other Pages
Betekhtinite is on my copper minerals page. Hedyphane is on my systematic inosilicates page. Perite is on my systematic oxides page. There are a few lead minerals on my systematic sulfides page; aikinite, cosalite, galenobismutite, gustavite, and pekoite. I've put them there because the other metals are present in greater proportion.
Specimens on This Page (links take you to either the first or only specimen)
alamosite, altaite, andorite, arsendescloizite, arsentsumebite, aschamalmite baumhauerite, bayldonite, beaverite, bindheimite, boléite, boulangerite, bournonite, brackebuschite caledonite, carminite, cechite, cerussite (and a cerussite-mimetite-malachite combo), cesarolite, cotunnite, creaseyite, crocoite, cylindrite descloizite (and variety psittacinite), diaboléite, dufrénoysite, duftite, dundasite ecdemite, embreyite fizléyite, fornacite, franckeite, freieslebenite galena (and variety steinmannite), geocronite, gratonite hancockite, heliophyllite, heyite, heyrovskyite, hidalgoite, hutchinsonite, hydrocerussite jamesonite, jordanite kentrolite, kobellite, krettnichite lengenbachite, lillianite, linarite, liveingite maricopaite, meneghinite, mimetite (and varieties campylite and phosphatian mimetite), minium, mottramite nadorite, nealite osarizawaite, owyheeite paralaurionite, penfieldite, phoenicochroite, pillaite, plattnerite, plumbogummite, potosiite, pottsite, pseudoboléite, pyromorphite (including one from the Loudville Lead Mine in Easthampton, MA) sartorite, scrutinyite, seeligerite, segnitite, semseyite, sorbyite, stolzite teallite, thometzekite, tintinaite, tsumcorite vanadinite (and variety endlichite) wherryite, wickenburgite, wulfenite (including one from the Loudville Lead Mine in Easthampton, MA) zinkenite

72 Rows
Alamosite A small minaiture of tiny colorless fransparent crystals (larger image, center) of alamosite (lead metasilicate) on matrix from the Rawhide Mine, Artillery Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona. Alamosite has a unique 12-chain structure. Synthetic alamosite is used as a fabric flame-retardant and ceramic glaze. Thanks to Ingo Drescher's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Altaite A micromout of massive altaite (lead telluride) from the Mattagami Lake Mines, Galinee Township, Abitibi County, Québec, Canada. There's probably submicroscopic inclusions of mattagamite and tellurantimony. It forms incomplete series with clausthalite and galena, its selenide and sulfide analogs. Thanks to Chris Auer's (Eureka Micromounts) auction on eBay for the specimen!	Andorite A stack of thin tabular andorite crystals comprise this thumbnail from the San Jose Mine in Oruro, Bolivia. Andorite is a lead silver antimony sulfide and is named after the Hungarian patron Andor von Semsey. Because he gave vast financial assistance to the Mineral Collection of the Hungarian National Museum, Professor Joseph Krenner named andorite and semseyite after him as a mark of his great respect. Thanks to Mike Keim at Marin Minerals for the specimen and the image! Thanks also to Ildikó Vég for the Andor von Semsey information!
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Arsendescloizite A beautiful large thumbnail of green botryoidal arsendescloizite (lead zinc hydroxyarsenate and the arsenate analog of descloizite) and epitaxial microcalcite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Thanks to John Sobolewski's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Arsentsumebite A small miniature of light-green arsentsumebite (a rare lead copper basic sulfatoarsenate) crystals on a tan matrix from Broken Hill, Australia. Thanks to Emilie & Ron Kendig's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Arsentsumebite An excellent thumbnail of bright green arsentsumebite from the type locality of the Tsumcorp Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. There's also some (blue) azurite present. Thanks to Micah Cline's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!
Row 3
Aschamalmite A very fine miniature of silvery aschamalmite (a lead bismuth sulfosalt) massives in matrix from the Habach Valley, Salzburg, Austria (maybe from Upper Leckbachgraben, one valley over from the type locality). It may form a series with heyrovskyite where silver replaces some of the lead and bismuth. Thanks to Bernard Kutil's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Baumhauerite Baumhauerite's another lead arsenosulfide - this small cabinet specimen of bronzy baumhauerite and red realgar is from the type locality of the Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Switzerland. Baumhauerite has a dimorph, Baumhauerite-2a, for which this is also the type locality - I can't tell if there's any present here. It has a Ward's tag. Thanks to C. Carter Rich's table at the 2004 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!	Bayldonite Bayldonite's a lead copper zinc hydroxyarsenate monhydrate - this thumbnail comes from the Simon Mine at Cedar Mountain, Simon, Bell District, Mineral County, Nevada. The microspherules are a beautiful shade of green! Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen and the images!
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Beaverite Rare yellow beaverite (a lead iron copper aluminum hydroxysulfate) on matrix from Ochtiná, Eastern Slovenské Rudohorie Mts, Kosice Region, Slovak Republic. Beaverite's amember of the alunite group. This thumbnail was collected in 2003. Thanks to Colleen Thomson's Thomson Minerals auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Bindheimite An esthetic thumbnail of yellow-brown drusy bindheimite (lead antimony mixed oxide, formerly considered an antimonate) with an unidentified green mineral, maybe philipsburgite, on quartz from the Black Pine Mine, Granite County, Montana. Thanks to Val Collins' auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Bindheimite A miniature of compacted, almost massive, bindheimite from Pershing County, Nevada. It looks a lot like the material from the Wamsley Mine in Mineral County, Nevada. Thanks to Wright's Rock Shop's table at the 2004 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!
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Boléite This intergrown crystal pair of boléite (a lead copper silver oxychloride) comes from the Amelia Mine in the type locality of Boléo, Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur, Mexico. I apologize for the poor photo, boléite crystals are typically so small (this one's 3 mm on edge) that I just can't photograph it properly. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen!	Boléite Once in a great while, a matrix specimen of boléite appears - this thumbnail's also from the Amelia Mine. Thanks to Alexander Falster's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Boléite and Penfieldite This miniature of boléite and penfieldite, a very rare lead hydroxychloride, (larger image, right) on matrix is from the mid-2001 find at Sierra Gorda, Caracoles District, Antofagasta, Chile. Also, recent microprobe analyses of boléite have found that there's 0.36% potassium in its composition - the link under the image here reflects the change. Thanks to John Veevaert at Trinity Minerals for the specimen!
Row 6
Boléite and Penfieldite Another boleite / penfieldite miniature - this on;es from the Margarita Mine, Sierra Gorda, near Antofagasta, Chile; my earlier specimen may be from the same locale. Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen!	Boulangerite Boulangerite's another one of the many lead antimony sulfosalts - the hairs appear to be loosely attached to both tiny brilliant colorless cerussite and larger white quartz crystals. This miniature's from Chalcidice (Chalkidiki), Greece. Thanks to Antonis Frangoudis's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Boulangerite This thumbnail has short and very fine boulangerite fibers on a quartz, pyrite, and arsenopyrite matrix from the Noche Buena Mine, Maxipil Zacatacas, Mexico. Thanks to Emilie & Ron Kendig's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Boulangerite A small plastic box of intergrown boulangerite needles from somewhere in Mexico. Ex: James F. Carryer collection.	Bournonite Bournonite (lead copper antimony sulfide) is often called "cogwheel ore" because of its multiply-twinned radiating crystals. In England it's called endellionite from Endellion in Cornwall (its type locality). This miniature (with manganocalcite and quartz) comes from the Pachapaqui Mine in Bolognesi Province, Ancash, Peru. Bournonite is sometimes used as an ore of lead (42.5%), copper, or antimony. It forms a complete series with seligmannite, where arsenic replaces the antimony, and an incomplete series with soucekite where bismuth replaces the antimony and selenium replaces some of the sulfur. There's often a small amount of tin present as well. Thanks to Rick Green at Uniquely Crystalline for the specimen and the image!	Bournonite An excellent miniature of bournonite (larger image, top right), anhydrite (larger image, bottom left), and drusy pyrite (larger image, bottom right) from the Naica Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico. Thanks to Gloria's Minerals' table at the 2002 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!
Row 8
Brackebuschite This type-locality micromount from the Venus Mine, El Gauico, Minas Department, Cordoba Province, Argentina has tiny brownish-black crystals of brackebuschite, a very rare hydrated lead orthovanadate (with a bit of manganese and iron) on matrix. Thanks to Eduardo Jawerbaum's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Brackebuschite This thumbnail of brackbushite and yellow vanadinite is also from the Venus Mine and was collected in 1973. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen!	Caledonite and Linarite Here's another small cabinet specimen from Tiger, Arizona - this time it's caledonite and linarite. Like linarite, caledonite is a copper and lead hydroxysulfate, but caledonite also has a carbonate anion. Thanks to Adam Larson at Adam's Minerals for the specimen and the image!
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Carminite Bright red carminite (a lead iron hydroxyarsenate) needles on matrix in this micromount from Cap Garonne, France. It's dimorphous with mawbyite. Thanks to Don Smoley's Minerals & Gems' table at the 2001 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!	Cechite When iron and manganese substitute for the zinc in descloizite (or the copper in mottramite) it becomes cechite - it's very rare and only occurs in tiny black crystals (one's ENE of the arrow), as in this hematite and calcite micromount from the type locality of Vrancice, Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic. Thanks to Tony Nikischer at the Excalibur Mineral Company for the specimen!	Cerussite Cerussite (lead carbonate) is an important lead ore. The crystals, like calcite, are doubly refracting. The fluorescence of the cerussites is interesting - it's a bright yellow but seems to be in either the center or bottom of each crystal rather than uniformly distributed! This one, with its accompanying orange barites and resting on a massive galena layer backed by limonite, comes from Mibladen, Morocco. Thanks to Rick Green at Uniquely Crystalline for the specimen and the image!
Row 10
Cerussite on Duftite Clear twinned cerussite crystals abound on duftite, a lead copper hydroxyarsenate named for Mr. Duft (director of mines at Tsumeb), in this small cabinet specimen, which is also a Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otavi, Namibia type-locality mineral! Thanks to Steve Carter at Penn Minerals for the specimen and the image!	Cerussite Another cerussite "druse" from Mibladen, Morocco - this miniature also has some salmon barite on the galena matrix. The larger picture shows a second specimen and closeup from the same location. Thanks to Brian McManus at the Pebble Peddler for the specimens!	Cerussite A very esthetic miniature of cerussite on salmon barite from Mibladen, Morocco. Thanks to Walter Mroch's (The Gem and Mineral Exploration Company) auction for the specimen and the image!
Row 11
Cerussite Often, cerussite occurs as white "jackstraws", as in this miniature from the Flux Mine, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona.	Cerussite Highly intergrown, complexly-faceted cerussite on orange barite miniature from Mibladen, Morocco - it fluoresces bright yellow under longwave UV (some zonal).	Cerussite Light yellow reticulated ("bridge girder") cerussite with tiny orange wulfenites and yellow mimetites miniature from Tiger, Arizona. Thanks to Kevin Shelton's auction on eBay for the specimen!
Row 12
Cerussite A beautiful cluster of twinned tan cerussite miniature from the Congo.	Cerussite A thumbnail of the popular reticulated cerussite clusters from the 2002 find at the Nakhlak Mine, Anarak District, Esfahan Province, Iran. Thanks to Don Smoley's Minerals & Gems' table at the 2002 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!	Cerussite A very unusual and very rare cerussite miniature from Sonora, Mexico. Ex: John Betts, Joe Cilen (# 4961), and James Nelson (# 729) collections. Thanks to Tom Klinepeter's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!
Row 13
Cerussite An excellent thumbnail of smoky cerussite from Tsumeb, Namibia. There's a few micro azurites attached. Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Cerussite Another Tsumeb cerussite - this excllent miniature cluster of sixlings varies in color and is from an old collection. Thanks to Kelly Gillespie's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Cerussite This miniature from Tsumeb has beautiful smoky (included) gemmy cerussite crystals and tiny duftite crystals (larger image, top right) on a calcite matrix. Thanks to Debbie Woolf at Steiner's Rockshop's auction on eBay for the specimen and images!
Row 14
Cerussite Unlike the Australian chrome-cerussite, this beautiful cerussite miniature from the Daoping Mine, Yang Shao, Gui Lin, Guang Xi Province, China is colored green by a chrysocolla coating. Thanks to Eric Greene's (Treasure Mountain Mining) auction on eBay for the specimen!	Cerussite, var. Chrome-Cerussite When there's enough chromium in cerussite to tint it green, it's called chrome-cerussite as in this small cabinet specimen from Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Thanks to Chris Korpi at Pangaea Minerals for the specimen!	Cesarolite An excellent thumbnail of cesarolite (a lead manganese oxide) on yellow-fluorescing calcite from the type locality of Sidi-amor-ben-Salaam, Al Kaf, Tunisia. Thanks to Tony Nikischer at the Excalibur Mineral Company for the specimen!
Row 15
Creaseyite Light-green coating of creaseyite (a lead copper iron aluminum silicate) on matrix (miniature) from Cananea 10, Santa Ana, Sonora, Mexico. Thanks to Ingo Drescher's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Crocoite A miniature cluster of interlocked crocoite (lead chromate) from the famous Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania. Thanks to Rick Green at Uniquely Crystalline for the specimen and the image!	Crocoite Tiny (but bright!) crocoites share the quartz matrix with tiny pyrites in this beautiful miniature combination of colors and crystals, almost certainly from the Beresov District, near Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Ural Mountains, Russia. It may even be a type-locality specimen. Thanks to Joana Pomenta's auction on eBay for the specimen! Also, thanks to Rick Turner for the location info!
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Crocoite A beautiful lustrous 35mm crystal of crocoite from the famous Red Lead Mine in the Zeehan-Dundas region of Tasmania, Australia. Thanks to Mike Giammatteo's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Crocoite An esthetic miniature of a crocoite spray on gossan matrix also from the Red Lead Mine - these are rapidly becoming scarce! Thanks to Tony Smith's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Crocoite This miniature of brilliant red crocoite and brown vauquelinite (a lead copper hydroxyphosphatochromate) is from the type locality for both minerals, the Tsvetnoi Mine, Berezovskoye Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii, Ekaterinberg, Urals Region, Russia. Thanks to Dave Hayward at Lucky Strike Minerals for the specimen!
Row 17
Cylindrite One of the very few minerals with a consistently curved habit, this miniature of cylindrite, a lead iron tin antimony sulfide, comes from Poopó, Oruro, Bolivia. Thanks to Mike Keim at Marin Minerals for the specimen and the image!	Descloizite Descloizite, a lead zinc copper hydroxyvanadate, often occurs with (and on) vanadinite. Here on this small cabinet specimen, though, in these dark brown with translucent to transparent dark-yellow-tipped spears, it occurs alone. The Berg Aukas mines, Grootfontein, Otavi, Namibia, Africa descloizites are among the best, according to Fred Pough's Rocks and Minerals. Thanks to Henry Truebe's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Descloizite The descloizite in this miniature from the Greyhorse Mine (Gray Horse), Pinal County, Arizona occurs on pseudomorphed (white hexagonal) vanadinite crystals. The closeup shows their beautiful orange-brown color. There are a few normal vanadinites at the front and back. Thanks to Frank Yolton's auction on eBay for the specimen and full image!
Row 18
Descloizite with Vanadinite This is a very sparkly small cabinet specimen from Minas Ahumado, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. It appears to have started with vanadinite on the bottom with endlichite "spikes" covered with a combination of descloizite and mottramite. It's really pretty under a loupe! Thanks to Richard Dale's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Descloizite on Wulfenite Beautiful tiny dark orange descloizite crystals coat wulfenite in this miniature from the Mammoth Mine in Pinal County, Arizona. Thanks to Michael Cottingham's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Descloizite A beautiful small cabinet specimen of yellow descloizite rosettes on matrix from Zacatecas, Mexico. Ex: Sample's Minerals of Stockton, California. Thanks to Wayne & Tarissa Bloechl's (GeoJoe's Rock & Mineral Shop) auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Descloizite A classic "spear tip" descloizite thumbnail from Berg Aukas. Ex: Bill Basbagill Collection. Thanks to the H M & D Minerals' table at the 2003 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!	Descloizite, var. Psittacinite When descloizite occurs in parrot-green botryoidal masses, it's called psittacinite - this miniature's from the Otavi District in Namibia. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen and the images!	Diaboléite A miniature of light blue diaboléite (a lead copper hydroxychloride) with massive malachite on matrix from the old Apache Mine, Hachita, Grant County, New Mexico. Thanks to Emilie & Ron Kendig's auction on eBay for the specimen!
Row 20
Dufrénoysite A thumbnail of lustrous dark-gray dufrénoysite (lead arsenic sulfide) on realgar, orpiment, and quartz from the type locality of the famous Lengenbach Mine, Binntal, Switzerland. Thanks to Isaias Casanova at IC Minerals for the specimen and the images!	Duftite This is really an "unknown" thumbnail specimen from Mexico, but it appears to be duftite (it's too green to be rosasite), a lead copper hydroxyarsenate, with (probably) calcite on top with limonite on a hematite matrix. Thanks to Miao Yang's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Duftite An old small cabinet specimen of gray duftite coated with tiny transparent calcite rhombs from the Tsumeb Mine, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. Thanks to Eric Greene's (Treasure Mountain Mining) auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!
Row 21
Dundasite A nice miniature of white dundasite (a hydrated lead aluminum hydroxycarbonate) on matrix from the unusual locale of the Pentire Glaze Mine, Polzeath, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Thanks to Thomas Bee's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Ecdemite on Wulfenite and Mimetite The yellow powdery coating on the wulfenite and mimetite on this cabinet specimen from the Rowley Mine in Theba, Maricopa County, Arizona is ecdemite, a lead arsenic oxychloride. Thanks to Nora Carman's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Embreyite A pretty miniature of orange-red embreyite (hydrated lead chromatophosphate) crystals on matrix from Callenberg, Saxony, Germany. Thanks to Bernhard Kutil's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!
Row 22
Fizélyite This thumbnail of fizélyite (named after Hungarian mining engineer Sándor Fizély), another lead silver antimony sulfide, in matrix with pyrite is from the Van Silver Claim, near Whisler, Brandywine Creek, British Columbia, Canada. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen and the images! Thanks also to Ildikó Vég for the Sándor Fizély link!	Fornacite Fornacite's a rare lead copper hydroxy chromatoarsenate that comes in various shades of green - this thumbnail from the Eagle Eye Mine, New Water Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona is a beautiful bluish green. It forms incomplete series with molybdofornacite and vauquelinite, its molybdo and phosphatoarsenates analogs respectively. Thanks to Adam Larson's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Franckeite Franckeite is a rare lead tin antimony sulfide - this toenail's from Carguaicollo, Quijarro Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia. Thanks to Richard Dale's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Freieslebenite A micromount of gray needles of freieslebenite (a lead silver thioantimonide) on matrix from Dossena, Bergamo Province, Italy. It forms incomplete series with marrite, its thioarsenide analog (and some references), laffittite. Thanks to Chris Auer's (Eureka Micromounts) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Galena A crust of crystalline galena along with a little pyrite, calcite, sphalerite, and a few small fluorites. Some of the galena on this small cabinet specimen has a blue tarnish. This one was very difficult to photograph - too much sparkle! Galena forms a series with clausthalite, its selenide analog.	Galena This large cabinet specimen has galena on a marcasite and pink dolomite (on the back) matrix from Joplin, Missouri - one of the best localities for this particular mineral association.
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Galena This is a thumbnail of massive galena with mint green crusts on two sides, one of which has a couple of millimeter-sized linarite (I think) crystals! The faces of the galena crystals are curved which often means that there's silver as an impurity.	Galena This is a beautiful Brazilian cabinet specimen of highly lustrous granular galena preferentially coated with tiny dogtooth spar calcite. There's also pyrite randomly scattered about.	Galena on Pyrite This is a stunning large specimen (15 cm long) of lustrous octahedral galena on pyrite from Peru - there's also some white anglesite crystals on the galena.
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Galena Shiny silver galena miniature with quartz crystals from Bulgaria. Thanks to Antonis Frangoudis' auction on eBay for the specimen!	Galena A large cabinet ball of galena cubes from Picher, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. There's also some chalcopyrite and orange to red sphalerites scattered here and there. Thanks to Olympic Mountain Gems, Inc. for the specimen!	Galena This galena thumbnail dusted with micro pyrite is from the Tri-State District near Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen!
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Galena Galena crystals like this miniature from the Tri-State District, Joplin, Missouri are called "cityscapes". Thanks to Stan Perry's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Galena and Pyrite A flashy miniature of galena with pyrite comes from the 5080 ore body at Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. Thanks to David Smith's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Galena A beautiful mirror-finish miniature of galena octahedrons with chalcopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite, and quartz from the Madan Ore Fields, Plovdiv District, Bulgaria. This miniature was very hard to photograph! Thanks to Darrel Merke's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!
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Galena with Calcite A beautiful miniature cluster of octahedral and cubic galena (with a little chalcopyrite) frosted with calcite from Naica, Mexico. Thanks to Donna Lee Hanlon's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Quartz on Galena A beautiful miniature of quartz-covered silver-bearing galena from Bulgaria. The galena faces are strongly curved which usually indicates a high silver content. There's also a few dark yellow, translucent sphalerites with odd metallic gray faces, some chalcopyrite on the back, and one matte-finish tetrahedrite crystal (larger picture, bottom row, center). Thanks to Antonis Frangoudis' auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Galena A lustrous skeletal galena crystal, collected in the 1960s from the Madan ore field, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. It has some dark-green sphalerite attached. Thanks to Emil Stoyanov's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Galena A fascinating galena cube from Dal'Negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia - the exposed surface is highly eroded.	Galena, var. Steinmannite This is the variety of galena known as "steinmannite" - it contains a small amount of antimony and arsenic. The crystals in this miniature from Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic are very lustrous with rounded edges. There's also some realgar present. Thanks to Thomas Bee's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Geocronite Yet another lead sulfosalt (this one with antimony and arsenic), this thumbnail of geocronite in quartz comes from Udden, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden. It forms a series with jordanite, the fully arsenical endmember. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen!
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Gratonite Another lead (arsenic) sulfosalt, this small cabinet coarsely crystalline piece of gratonite, comes from the type locality of the Excelsior Mine, Cerro de Pasco District, Alcides Carrion Province, Pasco Department, Peru. Thanks to Dave Bunk (Dave Bunk Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen!	Hancockite A micromount of red-orange hancockite (lead aluminum iron hydroxysilicate with small amounts of calcium and strontium replacing the lead) crystals from the type locality of the Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey. Thanks to Don Smoley's Minerals & Gems' table at the 2002 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!	Hancockite This small cabinet specimen of massive hancockite with tiny axinite-filled vugs also comes from the Franklin Mining District. It has a Mine Hill Mineral Shoppe tag. Thanks to Doreen Fenn's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Heliophyllite A micromount of orangeish crystals of heliophyllite (a lead chloropyroarsenate) in microvugs of aragonite from Madein, Laccos, Kassandia, Greece. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen!	Heyite This miniature of micro yellow heyite (a lead iron oxyvanadate) crystals on matrix is from the Silver Coin Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada. Ex: Robert M. Eaton Collection. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen and the images!	Heyrovskyite A 2mm grain of metallic heyrovskyite (a lead silver bismutosulfide) in quartz from the type locality of Hurky, Stredocesky kraj, Cechy (Cistà), Czech Republic. It may form a series with aschamalmite where the silver is deficient. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen and the images!
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Hidalgoite A miniature of pale green hidalgoite (a lead aluminum hydroxysulfatoarsenate) in matrix from the Glory Hole, Gold Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah. It's the aluminum analog of beudantite. Thanks to Chris Auer's (Eureka Micromounts) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Hidalgoite Another miniature of light-green hidalgoite in matrix from the Gold Hill Mine. Thanks to Alexander Falster's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Hutchinsonite A miniature of massive hutchinsonite (a lead thallium arsenic sulfide) with micro pyrites on matrix from the type locality of the Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland. The closeup (larger image, bottom left) shows that the hutxchinsonite is bright red in thin sections. Thanks to Chris Auer's (Eureka Micromounts) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!
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Hydrocerussite The Mendip Hills, Somerset, England was the home of this 1cm hydrocerussite (lead hydroxycarbonate) crystal. Thanks to Duane Leavitt's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Jamesonite The La Noria Mine near Municipio de Sombrerete in Zacatecas, Mexico was the home of this miniature jamesonite (another lead iron antimony sulfosalt) - typically, the specimens from here look more like stibnite than usual. There's also some tiny pyrites (cubopyritohedral!) and a few moderately transparent valentinites (closeup)! It forms an incomplete series with benavidesite (where manganese partially replaces the iron) and is a dimorph with parajamesonite. Thanks to Sharon Cisneros at the Mineralogical Research Company for the specimen and the image!	Jamesonite Jamesonite in radiating spherules! I've never seen this habit mentioned in any field guide. This cabinet plate of delicate jamesonite is from Felsobanya (now Baia Sprie), Romania. Thanks to Jon Gladwell's (Myrddin Emrys Limited) auction on eBay for the specimen and images!
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Jordanite This is a very pretty small cabinet specimen of jordanite (a lead arsenic sulfosalt) with lengenbachite, wurtzite (a dimorph of sphalerite), and barite on white dolomite. It comes from the type locality of the Lengenbach Quarry in the Binntal, Canton Wallis, Swiss Alps. Jordanite forms a series with geocronite where antimony replaces some of the arsenic. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen!	Kentrolite Kentrolite (from the Greek kentron, point) is a lead manganese (soro)silicate - this miniature's from the Prospect Claim, Sierra County, New Mexico. It's also the end member of a two-mineral series, melanotektite (a lead iron silicate) being the other. Thanks to Michael Cottingham's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Kintoreite A miniature of brownish-yellow millimeter-sized crystals of kintoreite, a hydrated lead iron hydroxyphosphate on matrix with brown corkite crystals (larger image, right, top center) from the Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Black Forest, Germany. Thanks to Martin Gale's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Kobellite Collected in 2001, this miniature of kobellite on quartz comes from the Smolnik Mine, Východoslovenský Kraj, Slovak Republic. Kobellite's another one of the many lead sulfosalts - a lead copper antimonbismutosulfide. It forms a complete series with tintinaite as the antimony content increases and an incomplete series with izoklakeite which also has iron. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen!	Krettnichite A small cabinet specimen of reddish-brown plates (see arrow) of the newly-approved (2000) mineral krettnichite (ideally lead manganese hydroxyvanadate, but typical analyses show strontium, cobalt, iron, and arsenate) on matrix from the type locality of the Krettnich manganese mine, Wadern, Saarland, Germany. It forms an incomplete series with mounanaite, where iron replaces the manganese. Thanks to Chris Auer's (Eureka Micromounts) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Lengenbachite A micromount of a lengenbachite (a lead silver copper arsenic sulfide) needle in matrix from the type locality - the Lengenbach Quarry in Wallis, Switzerland. Thanks to Alexander Falster's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Lillianite A handsome miniature of metallic lillianite and brown sphalerite in matrix from somewhere near Inglesia, Sonora, Mexico. It forms a series with gustavite where silver replaces some of the lead. Ex: Joe Cilen collection. Thanks to David H. Garske's (MINERALS and MORE) auction on eBay for the specimen!	Linarite This miniature from the Blanchard Claims in Bingham, Socorro County, New Mexico has linarite (a lead copper hydroxysulfate), anglesite (lead sulfate), and brochantite. Thanks to Dave Hayward at Lucky Strike Minerals for the specimen and the image!	Linarite Like my other Bingham linarite, this miniature has brochantite (in beautiful needle clusters, larger image, right). Thanks to Wayne Bloechl's (GeoJoe's) auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Linarite A minature of linarite with probable caledonite on the matrix. This one's from Inyo, California. Thanks to Martha Crawford's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Linarite An old (Denver Mineral Show, 10 Sep 1978) miniature with big radial sprays of linarite - you don't see crystals like these very often! It's also from the Blanchard Claims (there's the typical galena, anglesite, fluorite association) and has an Earth Gems & Minerals (Turlock, California) tag. Thanks to Leigh DelRay's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Linarite on Cerussite A beautiful thumbnail of linarite on cerussite from the classic locality for linarite, the Grand Reef Mine, Laurel Canyon, Klondyke, Aravaipa District, Pinaleño Mountains, Graham County, Arizona. Thanks to Micah Cline's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!
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Liveingite A small cabinet specimen of liveingite (a lead arsenic sulfide) with realgar in matrix from the type locality of the Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Switzerland. It has a Ward's tag (which says "Rathite", but it also has a Robert E. Jenkins, II tag, who reanalyzed it). Thanks to C. Carter Rich's table at the 2004 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!	Maricopaite This thumbnail of white radiating sprays of maricopaite (closeup), a lead calcium zeolite, and yellow mimetite comes from its type locality - Moon Anchor Mine, Tonopah, Maricopa County, Arizona. Thanks to Richard Dale's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Mendipite A miniature of light-pink mendipite, lead oxychloride, (larger image, top right) in white hydrocerussite with micro green pyromorphite (larger image, bottom left) - the label has a confusing locality, either the Higher Pitts Mine (type locality) or the Merehead Quarry, Mendip Hills, Somereset, England. Thanks to auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!
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Meneghinite Meneghinite's a rare lead copper antimony sulfide - this miniature comes from the Kalkan Quarry, Santa Cruz County, California. Most of the literature shows the copper content. It's a member of the aikinite group.	Mimetite A miniature of mimetite (lead chloroarsenate) with a little bit of reasonably transparent wulfenite on limonite from Mapimi in Durango, Mexico. There's one colorless crystal of something (probably dolomite) riding on top. The mimetite fluoresces brownish-orange. The wulfenite habit here is atypical; it's almost equant cubes (closeup). Mimetite is dimorphous with clinomimetite. Thanks to Dave Hayward at Lucky Strike Minerals for the specimen and the image!	Mimetite This beautiful miniature of bright (neon) orange mimetite on limonite is from the Rowley Mine outside of Theba, Maricopa County, Arizona. It's also got a couple of clear (so transparent, they're almost invisible - see closeup) yellow wulfenite crystals, and on the back, some barite blades. Thanks to Olympic Mountain Gems, Inc. for the specimen and the image!
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Mimetite This extremely gemmy mimetite miniature is from the mid-2000 find in Hat Yai, Songkla, Thailand - I'm not sure what the matrix is (probably botryoidal goethite). Philipsbornite, a lead aluminum hydroarsenate, was also associated with mimetite from there. Thanks to Jeff & Gloria's table at the 2000 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!	Mimetite on Barite A small cabinet specimen of mimetite clusters on barite flowers from the San Francisco Mine in Sonora, Mexico. Thanks to Brian McManus's (Pebble Peddler) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Mimetite A cute thumbnail of fibrous yellow mimetite with a few light orange wulfenites on barite from the Rowley Mine, Maricopa County Arizona. Thanks to Phil Helsley's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Mimetite A bright yellow mimetite thumbnail from the 2003 discovery near Huo Zhou City, Guangxi Province, China. Thanks to Val Collins' auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Mimetite A beautiful cluster of beige mimetites from the Mt. Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill in the Northern Territory of Australia. The habit here is unique. Thanks to Frank P. Butler's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Mimetite A rare color for mimetite, this old red-orange gemmy miniature is probably from the Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. Thanks to John Firriolo's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Mimetite A beautiful micro floater aggregate of orange mimetite from the 2004 find at the Pingtouling Mine, near Sanjiang City, Liannan County, Guangdong Province, China. Thanks to Kamran Jameel's (Khyber Mineral Company) auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Mimetite, var. Bellite Bellite, or chromian mimetite, occurs here as red-orange to yellow (depending on the amount of chromium present) hexagonal microcrystals on matrix along with boléite (larger image, middle row, center), galena (larger image, middle row, right) and an unidentified dark green mineral (larger image, middle row, left). It's named after W. R. Bell, the Tasmanian prospector who first discovered this very rare mineral (in Tasmania) in 1910. This small cabinet piece is from the 2003 find in the Ponderosa Mine in Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta, Chile. It may, according to Tom Loomis of Dakota Matrix Minerals, become a mineral in its own right someday. Thanks to the House of Onyx for the specimen!	Mimetite, var. Campylite When mimetite occurs in orange botryoidal masses, it's called campylite - this beautiful miniature (it's much brighter than it appears here) is from San Pedro Corralitos, Chihuahua, Mexico. Thanks to Tom Klinepeter's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!

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Mimetite, var. Campylite Another campylite miniature - this light-orange frosted (the closeup, larger image, bottom, shows the internal color to be a beautiful deep orange) mimetite on matrix with tiny bluish-green balls of (probably) rosasite is from between the 8th & 9th level of the Inglaterra Mine section of the El Potosi Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. It also fluoresces pink as do most campylites from here. Thanks to Charles Creekmur's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Mimetite, var. Campylite Another Santa Eulalia campylite - this miniature really sparkles!	Mimetite, var. Campylite A nice miniature of campylite with almost invisible pale yellow wulfenites (larger image, top right) from Sonora, Mexico. Thanks to Melanie Wilcox's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!
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Mimetite, var. Phosphatian Mimetite This is somewhere in the middle of the mimetite-pyromorphite series - this small cabinet specimen of phosphatian mimetite (or arsenatian pyromorphite) comes from the Driggeth Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. Thanks to Chris Korpi at Pangaea Minerals for the specimen! Also, thanks to Michael Cooper, Mineral Curator of the London Museum, for the identification info!	Minium Minium, or "red lead oxide", was used as a pigment and a rust preventative in anti-fouling paints. This miniature is from a location near Wickenburg, Arizona. Thanks to Jan Garland's (Fine Rocks) auction on eBay for the specimen!	Mottramite Mottramite and descloizite form a series of zinc copper lead vanadates - descloizite is yellow-brown and rich in zinc while the higher copper content makes mottramite olive green, as in this miniature from Socorro Peak, Socorro County, New Mexico. Thanks to Kevin Conroy's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Mottramite A cute sparkly thumbnail of mottramite from Pima County, Arizona. Thanks to Don Goodell's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Nadorite Nadorite's a lead antimony oxychloride (and the antimony analog of the lead bismuth oxychloride, perite). The nadorite occurs with (probable) valentinite and stibiconite in this miniature from the type locality of Djebel Nador, Constantine, Algeria. The closeup shows both a radiating needle and a tabular habit. Thanks to David H. Garske's (MINERALS and MORE) auction on eBay for the specimen!	Nealite Nealite's a lead iron chloroarsenite that occurs in tiny orange crystals, as here in this micromount from the type locality of Laurium, Attiki, Greece. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen!
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Osarizawaite Osarizawaite's a rare lead copper aluminum hydroxysulfate - this thumbnail, with galena and cerussite, is from the Silver Hill Mine in Pima County, Arizona. Thanks to Emilie & Ron Kendig's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Owyheeite Owyheeite's a lead silver antimony bismuth sulfide that usually occurs as compacted fibers (closeup) - this miniature's from the Broken Hill Mine in Churchill County, Nevada. Thanks to SoCal Nevada's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Paralaurionite A crystal fragment of paralaurionite (lead hydroxychloride) from the Mendip Hills, England. It's the monoclinic dimorph of orthorhombic laurionite. Thanks to C. Carter Rich's table at the 2004 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!
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Phoenicochroite A colorful miniature comprising deep-red phoenicochroite (lead (per)oxychromate), yellow-orange hemihedrite and assorted other minerals (larger image) from hemihedrite's type locality, the Pack Rat #2 Claim, Wickenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona. It forms an incomplete series with lanarkite, its oxysulfate analog. Thanks to Kim & Cindy Strange's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Pillaite An excellent micro of silvery-black pillaite (a lead antimony oxychlorosulfosalt with a trace of copper) from the type locality of the Buca della Vena Mine, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy. Thanks to Paolo Bracci's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Plattnerite Plattnerite's one of the many lead oxides and a fairly rare mineral. This miniature's from Mapimi, Mexico and also has coppery-colored botryoidal goethite, a couple of light-gray cloudy calcite rhombs, some cerussite and what appears to be hemimorphite on a limonite matrix. It's the tetragonal dimorph of orthorhombic scrutinyite. Thanks to Jan Garland's (Fine Rocks) auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Plattnerite This museum-size plattnerite's also from Mapimi - it has a scheelite-calcite mix (larger image, bottom center) on the bottom and a Texas Tech Geological Museum label. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Plattnerite More plattnerite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico - this small cabinet specimen hosts bright white hydrozincite as well as limonite and calcite. Thanks to Leland Goodwin's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Plattnerite and Hemimorphite An impressive small cabinet specimen of black plattnerite and colorless hemimorphite on matrix from the Lone Mountain Mine in the Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona.
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Plumbogummite A beautiful miniature of bluish-green botryoidal plumbogummite (a hydrated lead aluminum hydroxyphosphate) over yellow pyromorphite from the Yangshuo Mine, Guoteng, Guangxi Province, China. Plumbogummite is the phosphate analog of the arsenate philipsbornite and the lead analog of crandallite. Thanks to Rory Howell's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Potosiite One of the many lead tin iron sulfosalts, potosiite occurs here, in this thumbnail from Poopó, Oruro, Bolivia, as long pseudohexagonal prisms. The label claims that there's incaite present (it only occurs in microscopic crystals); Poopó's the type locality for incaite. Thanks to Adam Larson's (Adam's Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Pottsite This rare pottsite (a lead bismuth vanadate) miniature occurs only (type locality) at the Linka Mine near Spencer Hot Springs, Lander County, Nevada. Thanks to Mike Keim at Marin Minerals for the specimen!
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Pseudoboléite This is a beautiful small-cabinet specimen of sparkly dark-blue pseudoboléite (a hydrated lead copper oxychloride), dark-green malachite, and other assorted minerals on matrix from the Santa Catalina Mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile. Thanks to James Zigras' auction on eBay for the specimen!	Pyromorphite Pyromorphite (lead chlorophosphate) is a minor lead ore - this small cabinet's from the Chester County Mines, in Phoenixville, Chester County, Penssylvania. It forms a complete series with mimetite and often, specimens are intermediate in composition. Thanks to Dave Hayward at Lucky Strike Minerals for the specimen and the image!	Pyromorphite Lustrous yellow-green crystals of pyromorphite to 4 mm in size are scattered about this miniature from the Clara Mine near Schwarzwald, Germany. Thanks to Dan Wienrich at Dan & Jill Weinrich for the specimen and the image!
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Pyromorphite The colors in this miniature from Juarez, Cerro de San Pedro, San Luis Potosí, Mexico go very well together - green pyromorphite, yellow wulfenite, gray galena, and white barite - it's really a beautiful piece! Thanks to Bob Winfree's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Pyromorphite A beautiful green pyromorphite toenail cluster from Yangshu (Yang Shao), Gui Lin, Guangxi Province, China. Thanks to Greg Holland at the Stone Haven Mineral Shoppe for the specimen and the images!	Pyromorphite This miniature was labeled as vanadinite, but I think it's more likely pyromorphite on a calcite matrix.
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Pyromorphite This miniature of pyromorphite from the Yang Shao Mine, Guang Xi Province, is a lighter green than usual from China. Thanks to Rick & Deana Seng's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Pyromorphite This miniature (probably Mexican) comprises brown pyromorphite, dark yellow transparent vanadinite, black sphalerite, and white barite on a matrix. Lots of colors and different crystal froms! Thanks to Martha Crawford's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Pyromorphite Beautiful, though small, emerald green pyromorphite crystals on a quartz matrix comprise this miniature from the famous Loudville Lead Mine (Manhan Mine) in Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts! This locale was profiled in the March / April 2001 edition of Rocks & Minerals. This specimen was collected by the author of that article at that time! See my wulfie from the same locale. Thanks to Eric Greene's (Treasure Mountain Mining) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!
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Pyromorphite A bright orange thumbnail of arsenian pyromorphite from the Jersey Vein of the Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Idaho. Thanks to Tom Klinepeter's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Pyromorphite A cute pyromorphite floater from Yangshu (Yang Shao), Guangxi Province, China. Thanks to North Star Minerals's table at the 2004 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!	Sartorite A tiny crystal of sartorite (lead thioarsenide) from the type locality of the Lengenbach Quarry Binntal, Valais Canton, Switzerland. It's named after the German naturalist, Sartorius von Waltershausen. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen!
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Scrutinyite Scrutinyite (lead dioxide) almost always is intergrown with its dimorph, plattnerite - this thumbnail of scrutinyite-dusted quartz is from the 1990 find at the Snake Pit Mine, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico, where, for the time ever, scrutinyite was found in isolation. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Seeligerite A miniature of platy seeligerite crystals (lead oxychloroiodate) on matrix from the San Francisco Mine, Sierra Gorda, Caracoles District, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Thanks to Duane Leavitt's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Segnitite Greenish-brown microcrystals of segnitite (a lead iron hydroxyarsenate) on matrix (miniature) from the type locality of the Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Thanks to Tony Nikischer's Excalibur Mineral Company auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Semseyite Semseyite's a rare lead antimony sulfide named after the Hungarian patron Andor von Semsey. Because he gave vast financial assistance to the Mineral Collection of the Hungarian National Museum, Professor Joseph Krenner named semseyite and andorite after him as a mark of his great respect. This miniature of even rarer tabular semseyite crystals (and calcite spherules on the back) on matrix is from the Herja Mine, Baia Mare, Maramures, Romania. I'm not sure what the matrix is - they're rhombohedral with strongly-curved faces and appear to be coated with something metallic (on a few crystals, the coating is thin enough that it becomes brown and merely lustrous). Semseyite's the end member of a small group of related lead sulfosalts; the members (semseyite, heteromorphite, plagionite, and fülöppite) differ in composition by the amount of sheet galena in their structures with semseyite having the most and fülöppite the least. Thanks to Darrel Merke's auction on eBay for the specimen! Thanks also to Ildikó Vég for the Andor von Semsey information!	Sorbyite Metallic grains of sorbyite, a complex lead antimony arsenosulfide, in a thumbnail matrix, probably from the Lenskoye (Novoye) Mo-U deposit, Amurskaya Oblast', in Russia.	Stolzite Stolzite is the rare tungsten analog of wulfenite and dimorphic with raspite - this thumbnail cluster is from the Ste Lucie Mine, St Léger-de-Peyre, Lozère, France. Thanks to Emilie & Ron Kendig's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Teallite Teallite's a lead thiostannite (PbSnS2) - this miniature comes from the Carguaicollo (Karguai Khoyo) Mine, Quijarro Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia, the primary source. Teallite should be kept in a dry environment - a damp specimen will decompose into fine-grained galena, colloidal tin oxide ("wood tin"), and hydrogen sulfide. Thanks to Tom & Vicki Loomis at Dakota Matrix Minerals for the specimen! Thanks also to Fred Barnard for the locale correction and information and teallite storage warning!	Thometzekite An excellent miniature of massive scorodite with vugs containg yellow-green thometzekite (a hydrated lead copper zinc arsenate) crusts (larger image, top center, right), red carminite, and scorodite crystals from the 110' level of the Gold Hill Mine, Clifton District, Tooele County, Utah. One reference has thometzekite forming a complete series with tsumcorite. Thanks to Anthony Jones' auction on eBay for the specimen! Thanks also to Erich Laskowski for the locale correction!	Tintinaite Tintinaite's a rare lead copper silver (bismuth antimony) sulfosalt - this micromount of tintinaite on milky quartz is from Roznava, Východoslovenský Kraj, Slovakia. It forms a complete series with kobellite as the bismuth content increases. Thanks to Thomas Bee's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Tsumcorite Yellow tufts and aggregates of tsumcorite (a lead zinc iron hydroxyarsenate, or hydrated arsenate depending on your references) from the type locality of the Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. There's also a green duftite (type locality, also) druse on the miniature matrix. According to one reference, tsumcorite forms an incomplete series with mawbyite where the iron predominates over the zinc. Another reference states that tsumcorite forms two complete series; one with thometzekite, where copper replaces the zinc, and another with helmutwinklerite where zinc totally replaces the iron. Thanks to Rick Kennedy's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Vanadinite There's enough vanadinite in the U.S. that it was once considered an ore even though it's only 11% vanadium. Vanadinite, mimetite, and pyromorphite are all chemically closely related - they're (respectively) lead chlorovanadate, lead chloroarsenate, and lead chlorophosphate. This miniature's probably from Arizona.	Vanadinite This bright red vanadinite miniature comes from Mibladen, Morocco. Thanks to Gary Lozonne at Lozonne's Minerals for the specimen and the image!
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Vanadinite A beautiful thumbnail of twinned vanadinite from the Old Yuma Mine, Jaynes, Pima County, Arizona. Thanks to Adam Larson at Adam's Mineralsfor the specimen!	Vanadinite A bright red thumbnail vanadinite cluster from Morocco. Thanks to Scher Sharma's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Vanadinite This thumbnail of vanadinite is from the Ramsey Mine in Yuma County, Arizona - it's actually a bit greener than the images show. Thanks to Emilie & Ron Kendig's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Vanadinite A thumbnail of vanadinite from Arizona with color gradation from yellow-orange to red. Thanks to the Nature's Expressions booth at the 2000 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!	Vanadinite Often vanadinite from Morocco (Oudja, in this miniature) occurs on white barite. Thanks to Peter Biskup's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Vanadinite A pretty orange vanadinite miniature from the J.C. Holmes Mine, Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. According to the Mineralogical Research Company, "The Vanadinite crystals [ from the J.C. Holmes Mine] are elongated and dipyramidal in habit, with no C faces". Thanks to Rob Kulakofsky at the Arizona Mineral Company for the specimen and the image! Closeup image copyrighted by the Arizona Mineral Company.
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Vanadinite This small cabinet specimen of yellow vanadinite (the colors vary from a greenish-yellow through a light amber) comes from the Puzzler Mine in Yuma County, Arizona. Thanks to Tom Hales' (Museum Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and images!	Vanadinite A bright vermilion vanadinite on descloizite on quartz miniature from the Apache Mine, Globe, Gila County, Arizona. The sparkling spires (larger image, bottom) are really beautiful! Thanks to Keith Hayes' (KQ's Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen!	Vanadinite Beautiful bright orange vanadinite on barite miniature from Mibladen, Morocco. Thanks to Roger Hoek's (ARCH Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Vanadinite A thumbnail of intergrown vanadinite crystals in the "sheaf" habit from the famous, but long-closed, Western Union Mine in the Cerbat Mountains of Mohave County, Arizona near Kingman. Thanks to Christie & Chuck's Stone Roses auction on eBay for the specimen and images!	Vanadinite This is a beautiful, big (over one cubic cm) hoppered vanadinite crystal from the Old Yuma Mine, Jaynes, Pima County, Arizona. Thanks to Dan Wienrich at Dan & Jill Weinrich for the specimen and the image!	Vanadinite What appears to be yellow vanadinite on pink calcite from the San Carlos Mine, Mun De Manuel Benavides, Chihuahua, Mexico is actually (probably ecdemite) coated red vanadinite (larger image, center, right). It's still an impressive miniature - these haven't been on the market for decades! Thanks to auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Vanadinite, var. Endlichite Endlichite isn't really a proper mineral - it's an arsenic-rich vanadinite; but it's color and habit are distinctive enough from vanadinite and mimetite that it's often listed separately. This miniature comes from the Ahumada Mine near Sierra de Los Lamentos in Chihuahua, Mexico. Thanks to Chris Korpi at Pangaea Minerals for the specimen!	Vanadinite, var. Endlichite Tiny silvery-brown endlichite needles on this thumbnail from Minas Ahumado in Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. Thanks to Richard Dale's (Dale Minerals International) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Vanadinite, var. Endlichite A miniature of sparkly silvery-tan crystals of endlichite on bright orange descloizite from the Chalk Mountain Mine in Churchill County, Nevada. Thanks to Richard Dale at Dale Minerals International for the specimen!
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Vanadinite, var. Endlichite Beautiful brown endlichites (some with transparent fiery yellow tips) surrounded by elongated dodecahedral calcites (though the light yellow phosphorescence reminds of cerussite) comprise this thumbnail from (probably the Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos, Mexico. Thanks to Wayne Bloechl's (GeoJoe's) auction on eBay for the specimen!	Vanadinite, var. Endlichite Collected in 1990, this miniature of lemon-yellow endlichite on calcite is from what many consider the "type locality" of the Macy Mine, Caballo, Hillsboro, Sierra County, New Mexico. Thanks to Steve & Susan Bringe's (Summit Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Wherryite Wherryite's an odd mineral - a lead copper hydroxysulfatosilicate. This small thumbnail, from the Rawhide Mine, Mojave County, Arizona, also has light-blue chrysocolla and gray fluorite. It's isostructural with macquartite, its chromatosilicate cousin. Thanks to Richard Dale's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Wickenburgite This is a large cabinet piece of pink wickenburgite, a lead calcium aluminum phyllosilicate from the type locality of the Potter-Cramer Mine in Wickenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona. I don't know what the white powder is. Thanks to Dru Wilbur's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Wulfenite This thumbnail of wulfenite on limonite is from Arizona and displays the typical very thin tabular habit (there's also some tiny pale green pyromorphite between and on the wulfenite). It's a minor ore of both lead and molybdenum.	Wulfenite This wulfenite miniature from the Los Lamentos mines in Chihuahua, Mexico has a unique bipyramidal tetragonal habit - usually it's in thin tabular crystals like my Arizona ones. There are two small transparent yellow wulfenite tabulars at the edge of the limonite matrix. Thanks to Marcus Origlieri at The Mineral Zone for the specimen!
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Wulfenite I got this cabinet specimen of wulfenite (again from Chihuahua, Mexico) because it's a different color (orange-tan) and it's got some other minerals mixed in with it (probably cerussite). There are also tiny clusters of yellow-orange mimetite on some of the wulfenite with some very small radial sprays of probably stibnite in them! It's also got an interesting cavity on the back. Thanks to Dave Hayward at Lucky Strike Minerals for the specimen!	Wulfenite and Willemite A unique miniature (wulfenite and willemite don't occur together very often) from Tiger, Arizona. Thanks to Gary Lozonne at Lozonne's Minerals for the specimen and the image!	Wulfenite More wulfenite - this thumbnail's from the famous Red7nbsp;Cloud Mine near Yuma, La Paz County, Arizona. Thanks to Greg Bradbury at Crystalmaze for the specimen and the images!
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Wulfenite Another Red Cloud wulfenite thumbnail (cluster!) obtained through the The Virtual Show during the 2000 Tucson Show.	Wulfenite I haven't seen much black wulfenite - this thumbnail is from the Glove Mine, Amado, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Thanks to Bob Keller at the Arizona Mineral Company for the specimen and the image! Image copyrighted by the Arizona Mineral Company.	Wulfenite This brown wulfenite miniature's from the Defiance Mine in Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Thanks to Greg Meyers' (Greg's Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!
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Wulfenite and Mimetite Golden wulfenite and yellow mimetite thumbnail from the San Francisco Mine, near Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico. Thanks to Richard Dale's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Wulfenite A small cabinet plate of chunky tan wulfenites from Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico - the closeup shows the zonal coloration. Thanks to Rory Howell's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Wulfenite More wulfenites, orange-brown this time, from Los Lamentos, Mexico (miniature). Thanks to Doug Wahl's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Wulfenite A miniature of bipyramidal orange wulfenite on tabular brown wulfenite from the famous Los Lamentos Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico. Thanks to RAM Minerals for the specimen!	Wulfenite Two beautiful transparent orange wulfies on matrix (miniature) with a little yellow mimetite from the Rawhide Mine, Mohave County, Arizona.	Wulfenite A miniature with a small but bright orange wulfie (collected in the 1970s) from the famous Loudville Lead Mine in Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts! This locale was profiled in the March / April 2001 edition of Rocks & Minerals. The bottom closeup image shows what appears to be transparent light green acicular cotunnite, lead dichloride (named after D. Cotugno, the Italian anatomist). See my pyromorphite from the same locale. Thanks to Bob York's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Wulfenite These bright orange wulfenite microcrystals on a miniature matrix come from Mianning, Sichuan Province, China - supposedly the first wulfies from China! Thanks to Tony Nikischer at the Excalibur Mineral Company for the specimen!		Wulfenite This is a beautiful thumbnail of Red Cloud wulfenite - it has yellow massicot (lead monoxide) inclusions and the characteristic interference notch of this locality. Thanks to Christie & Chuck's (Stone Roses) auction on eBay for the specimen and images!
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Wulfenite A miniature of beautiful lemon-yellow wulfies from the now-closed Stevenson-Bennett Mine, Organ Mountains mining district (near Las Cruces), Dona Ana County, New Mexico. Thanks to Mark Massis' auction on eBay for the specimen!	Wulfenite Another wulfenite thumbnail from the famous Red Cloud Mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Thanks to Hal & Polly Prior's (H&P Minerals and Gems) auction on eBay for the specimen!	Wulfenite A couple of dozen Red Cloud wulfies on matrix (miniature) - small but nice! Thanks to Joseph & Catherine Morris' PhelansFinds auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Wulfenite Green wulfenite's fairly rare - I don't know where this small cabinet cluster of green wulfies on gray limestone is from (possibly Level 5, Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico). Thanks to Violet Ventura's auction on eBay for the specimen!	Wulfenite A beautiful pair of thumbnail wulfies - the orange one's from the Ourd Mekta Mine, Touissit, Oujda, Morocco and the red one's, of course, from Red Cloud. Thanks to Keith Hayes' (KQ's Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Wulfenite An excellent dark-brown miniature wulfenite cluster from Tsumeb. Thanks to Saul Krotki's auction on eBay for the specimen!
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Wulfenite What appears to be a very rare white wulfenite cluster from Ray, Arizona is actually yellow wulfies coated with micro drusy quartz. Thanks to Ken DeMary's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!	Wulfenite An excellent miniature of bipyramidal yellow wulfenite crystals on a barite and quartz matrix from the 2003? find at the Mianning - Dechang Metallogenetic Belt, Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. Thanks to Nik Nikiforou's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!	Wulfenite This beautiful miniature of millimeter-sized spiky deep-brick-red wulfenite crystals on a quartz and galena matrix is from the early 2007 find in China's Sichuan Province. Thanks to Brian Kosnar's (Mineral Classics) auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!
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	Zinkenite Another one of the many lead sulfosalts, zinkenite is part of the "feather ores" group - this miniature's from the Antimony Bluff Mine, Gillham, Sevier County, Arkansas. Depending on which field guide you consult, it has two different chemical formulas: Pb9Sb22S42 or Pb6Sb14S27. Thanks to C. Carter Rich's table at the 2000 Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show for the specimen!	Zinkenite A miniature of massive purple-tarnished zinkenite from Bridge River, Lillooet Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada. It has a Larner R. Peak tag stating that it was acquired from Sargent in 1948. Thanks to Kim & Cindy Strange's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!

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Last Update 7 Jul 2007