Horners Vein, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Bladed crystals of lanarkite on dark brown leadhillite.
© Steve Rust
1.5mm crystal. Collected 1984. Steve Rust photo & collection
Collected 1985. Steve Rust photo & collection.
Bladed lanarkite crystals. Collected 1984.
Minute acicular crystals of white mattheddleite on leadhillite, lanarkite, with caledonite. Collected 1985. Steve Rust photo & collection
Bladed lanarkite crystal with acicular mattheddleite, and caledonite. Collected 1984. Steve Rust photo & collection.
1.5mm crystal groups. Collected 1984. Steve Rust photo & collection
0.6mm long green crystal of chenite (xrd confirmed). In a corroded galena matrix with covellite. The white blue divergent mineral is an unnamed (Cu Pb Silicate) which might be named one day. Collected 1985.
2mm crystal. Collected 1984. Steve Rust photo & collection
2mm crystal. Collected 1983. Steve Rust photo & collection
Pyramidal 0.7mm susannite crystal. Collected 1985.
0.7mm crystal. Collected 1983. Steve Rust photo & collection
Image width about 6mm. Collected 1983.
Width 6mm. Collected 1985.
0.7mm crystal. Collected 1984.
Microphoto. Crystals to 0.75mm Collected 1983. Steve Rust photo & collection
Orange-brown descloizite to 0.4mm on pyromorphite. Collected 1984.
3mm crystal of cerussite. Collected 1984. Steve Rust photo & collection
Image width 2mm. White crystal group of scotlandite. The blue mineral is undefined. Collected 1988.
Thin platy crystals of leadhillite over a 3x3cm area. Collected 1990.
Image width 2.5mm. Light brownish crystals of scotlandite with caledonite.
Image width 1.5mm. Dendritic lath-like crystals, of an as yet unnamed species. Collected 1988.
Microphoto. Crystals to 0.6mm. Collected 1984. Steve Rust photo & collection
Aggregated groups of blue bladed linarite crystals. Width 4mm. Collected 1983.
0.6mm crystal. Collected 1984.
1.75mm tabular crystal group of leadhillite on pyromorphite. Collected 1984.
0.7mm dia blocky crystal. Collected 1988.
Area 8mm. Collected 1985. Steve Rust photo & collection
Image width 3mm.Showing azure blue linarite with light blue caledonite, Collected 1988.
Pyromorphite encrusting a twinned 1.7mm cerussite crystal. Collected 1985.
2mm bladed anglesite crystal. Collected 1984.
Width about 8mm. Collected 1984. Steve Rust photo & collection
A tiny 0.3mm crystal of chenite on covellite.
Dendritic crystals of steverustite to 0.7mm on quartz.
A 3mm double terminated susannite crystals with bladed crystals of white lanarkite,and a dusey band of mattheddleite running through the centre of the susannite crystal. Collected 1984
A group of bladed lanarkite crystals on dark brown minute leadhillite crystals.
Tiny orange mottramite crystals on pyromorphite. Image width about 5mm.
Single vertical anglesite crystal with others forming the background. Doug Merson photo and collection.
© 07/2016 Douglas Merson
Long parallel crystal group.
The V form is composed of leadhillite crystals. There is group of leadhillite crystals between the arms of the V with one clear single crystal above. Doug Merson photo and collection.
Typical 2mm platy crystal of leadhillite with cerussite
Tabular leadhillite crystals to 1.5mm
Micro colourless anglesite crystal in a vug in matrix. Purchased in 2006.
© Andrew Hodgson
The Hydrocerussite shows some replacement by white Cerussite
Striated prismatic lanarkite crystals embedded in matrix. Purchased in 2006.
Colorless, elongated lanarkite crystals covering much of the surface where the seam split on coated galena. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Milky-white bladed cerussite crystals lining a vug in matrix. Purchased in 2006.