Cerussite

Field of view: 7 mm. Granular cerussite. The translucent white parts are cerussite. The cerussite grain at the center is a pseudocubic penetration twin by three prisms. The notch at the center of the grain indicates that the grain is a twin. The basement is gangue quartz encrusted with dark brown limonite.

Recovered from an open space of a quartz vien in a meteoric oxidation zone of a moderate-temperature hydrothermal deposit in andesitic pyroclastics formed by dacite probably associated with a volcanic activity of a caldera. Formed in less than 50 years after the mine was closed,

Cerussite from this location was described in 1898.