Cerussite, Pyromorphite
Beer Cellar Mine, Granby Field, Tri-State Mining District, Newton County, Missouri, USA
3.0 x 2.1 x 1.0 cm. A very rare, old-time combination specimen from the less well-known Granby Field, near the famed Joplin Field. The crust is covered with lustrous, light brown, cyclically-twinned cerussite crystals. Clustered on a back corner are beautiful, tiny, lustrous, grass-green, acicular/hexagonal pyromorphite crystals. A few tiny ...
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