A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Mendipite and hydrocerrusite from Somerset, England |
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| Description | Mendipite, a lead oxyhalide (Pb3Cl2O2), generally is a soft, white, fibrous or columnar mineral found with other secondary lead minerals. Here mendipite blades, showing a slight pearly pinkish color, are intergrown with hydrocerussite (the darker mineral, a hydrated lead carbonate). This sample is about 3.5 cm across. |
| Location | England ▹ Somerset |
| Photographer | Shannon Heinle. 2001-03-21. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #310. |
| Key words | mendipite, hydrocerrusite, England |
| Tech details | 360 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 211 |
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