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anglesite , pale green, blue, yellow-to-white, or colorless mineral, a sulfate of lead, PbSO 4 , that is formed by oxidation of galena , crystallizing in the orthorhombic system and occurring also in granular or massive form. It is widely distributed and commonly associated with galena and other lead minerals. It is a secondary lead ore.

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anglesite Secondary lead mineral, PbSO4; sp. gr. 6.3–6.4; hardness 3; orthorhombic; normally colourless to white, but sometimes yellow, grey, or coloured by a bluish tinge; white streak; adamantine lustre; crystals tabular, prismatic, or pyramidal, or occurring as massive, granular, or compact aggregations; normally occurs in the oxidized zone of lead deposits, and often surrounds a core of galena.

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wulfenite

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wulfenite Mineral, PbMoO4; sp. gr. 6.5–7.0; hardness 3; tetragonal; orange-yellow, olive-green, or brown; white streak; resinous lustre; crystals usually square plates or tablets, sometimes occurs massive, granular, or botryoidal; cleavage good {101}; sub-conchoidal fracture; occurs as a secondary mineral in the oxidized zones of ore minerals of lead and molybdenum, and in association with anglesite, cerussite, and pyromorphite.

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Magazine article from: Rocks & Minerals; 5/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...percent. Pseudomorphs of cerussite after anglesite, phosgenite, leadhillite, caledonite...of galena is progressively armoured by anglesite and cerussite, are well known to collectors...with such other secondary minerals as anglesite, pyromorphite, smithsonite, malachite...
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Magazine article from: Mineralogical Record; 5/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...had again produced a flood of fine anglesite, cerussite and azurite, perhaps not...My favorites were a blade of yellow anglesite with a minute but perfect heart-shaped...yellowish cerussite pseudomorph after anglesite, the base of the crystals stained green...
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Magazine article from: Mineralogical Record; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...15-mm quartz-lined vug in association with crystals of anglesite and artroeite (Figures 1 and 2). Layers of quartz with...the vug. Crystals and masses of galena partially altered to anglesite form a discontinuous envelope bordering and included within...
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