Cerussite from
Commercial quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, USA

Description
Comments:	An alteration product of galena and occurs as earthy coatings on it.
Colour:	Gray
Quality of samples:	not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
References
References:	Eakle, Arthur Starr (1917), Minerals associated with the crystalline limestone at Crestmore, Riverside County, California: University of California Department of Geological Sciences Bulletin: 10: 352; Daly, John W. (1935), Paragenesis of mineral assemblages at Crestmore, California American Mineralogist: 20: 654; Woodford, A.O., Crippen, R.A., and Garner, K.B. (1941) Section Across Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, California. American Mineralogist: 26: 352-381; Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 231, 300.
Associated minerals:
Associates:	Anglesite Galena
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Cerussite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Commercial quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, USA

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