“Although known for some of the best linarite specimens ever found, the Grand Reef Mine also rarely produced some very nice cerussite specimens like this one. It's a handsome, stout, snow-white, twinned cerussite crystal measuring 4.0 cm in maximum dimension. One component of the V-twin is fat and juicy and the other portion of the twin is more slender with several smaller cerussite crystals forming multiple twins on the surface, and a few are just growing on this portion of the crystal. This is a really choice cerussite from finds probably originating in the mid-1990s but could be from earlier in the 20th Century. This cerussite fluoresces yellow-orange under short-wave UV light. Ex Michael Harkness lead species collection with label and Grant Gibson Minerals label. ”
Robert Lavinsky - 29th May 2021