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Cerussite from
Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Cerussite
Formula:PbCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyromorphite49 photos of Cerussite associated with Pyromorphite at this locality.
Leadhillite36 photos of Cerussite associated with Leadhillite at this locality.
Linarite18 photos of Cerussite associated with Linarite at this locality.
Chrysocolla15 photos of Cerussite associated with Chrysocolla at this locality.
Caledonite13 photos of Cerussite associated with Caledonite at this locality.
Lanarkite12 photos of Cerussite associated with Lanarkite at this locality.
Cassedanneite12 photos of Cerussite associated with Cassedanneite at this locality.
Anglesite9 photos of Cerussite associated with Anglesite at this locality.
Galena8 photos of Cerussite associated with Galena at this locality.
Hydrocerussite5 photos of Cerussite associated with Hydrocerussite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cerussite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (8 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:395960
Long-form Identifier:1:3:395960:2
GUID (UUID V4):ac1bbece-7e31-42d0-8932-668f2fcc56f8
Localities for Cerussite in this Region
Broadlaw Vein, Broad Law, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Reids Vein & Wilsons Vein, Broad Law, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Bulmer Vein, Bulmer Moss, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Middle Grain Vein, Bulmer Moss, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Glen Ea's Vein, Glen Ea's Hill, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Haddingtons vein (Haddingtons Road), Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Horners Vein (Jeffrey's Vein; Carse's Vein), Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Katystaklin Vein, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Laverock Hall Vein, Laverock Hall, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Sarrowcole Vein, Laverock Hall, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Meadowhead Vein, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Mill Vein, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Raiks Vein (incl. Broadlaw Low Level), Mine Hill-Broad Law, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Browns Vein, Mine Hill, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Dobbies Vein, Mine Hill, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Glengonnar shaft (Brow and Browns Veins), Mine Hill, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Lammingtons Vein, Mine Hill, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Wilsons shaft (Brown's vein), Mine Hill, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Risping Cleuch Vein, Risping Cleuch, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Roan Burn Vein, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Shortcleuch Vein, Short Cleuch, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Gordon's Vein, Snar Water, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Susanna Mine (Glennery Scar vein; Susanna vein [Scar vein]; Portobello vein; Humby vein; Lead vein), Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Brow Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Claystring Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
East Stayvoyage Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
George Roust Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Hopeful Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Katrine vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Lady Anne Hopetoun shaft (Brow and Hopeful Veins), Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Scar Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
West Stayvoyage Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Wool Gill Mine (Wool Gill Vein), Woolgill Mine, Wool Law, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Nearest other occurrences of Cerussite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Raiks Vein (incl. Broadlaw Low Level), Mine Hill-Broad Law, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
0.5km (0.3 miles) Broadlaw Vein, Broad Law, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
0.6km (0.4 miles) Mill Vein, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
0.7km (0.4 miles) Laverock Hall Vein, Laverock Hall, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
0.7km (0.4 miles) Susanna Mine (Glennery Scar vein; Susanna vein [Scar vein]; Portobello vein; Humby vein; Lead vein), Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
0.8km (0.5 miles) Haddingtons vein (Haddingtons Road), Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
0.9km (0.6 miles) Browns Vein, Mine Hill, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Wilsons shaft (Brown's vein), Mine Hill, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Claystring Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
1.0km (0.6 miles) Reids Vein & Wilsons Vein, Broad Law, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
277-82 Macphersonite, a new mineral from Leadhills, Scotland, and Saint-Prix, France a polymorph of leadhillite...Scottish Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1 JF, Scotland AND H. gARY D6partement de min6ralogie et de...varying combinations, with leadhillite, susannite, cerussite, caledonite, pyromorphite, scotlandite, galena...(approximately 2 x 4 x 5 cm) from Leadhills Dod, Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland, bore the label 'Leadhillite...Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland. Physical and optical properties. Macphersonite from Leadhills is very pale amber
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphates, and paragenetic relations at Leadhills, Scotland 1, E. J. ESSENE *, C. E. HENDERSON 1 2 ...Ronan's Terrace, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire EH44 6RB, UK ABS TR AC T Published electron microprobe analyses...mattheddleite, a lead sulpho-silicate apatite from Leadhills, Scotland, have 9 13% IV site deficiencies. However...of both OH- and Cl-dominant mattheddleite at Leadhills, but direct analysis of H is needed to confirm...Reactions of mattheddleite with other Pb minerals at Leadhills show that their stability depends on fluid composition
Catalog/List
miles from junction 5 or junction 6 of the M5, just south of Droitwich. National Grid Reference [SO 875 618]...have gone slightly too far. If travelling from the south, leave the M5 at junction 6, take the A4538 through...17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon. South Molton. [SS 652 290]. Ex Keat's collection, c. 1820...Just, Cornwall. [SW 368 346]. 130 fathom level, South Lode. Ex N.Carruth. SW.A8 Cassiterite - Pendarves...label. SX.1U2 Pseudomalachite - Bamfylde Mine, South Molton, Devon. N.Hubbard 1988. [SX 745 315]. 8
Book
978-1-916241-1-3 Printed and bound in the UK by Book Printing UK Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Woodston...Wanlockhead mines. Lead ore from the adjoining Leadhills mines was smelted on different estate lands owned...village, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, the highest village in Scotland at 467 m (Figs 10,10a). Wanlockhead...to Wanlock Water (Fig 15) The Wanlockhead and Leadhills mines form the geological orefield supplying the...both estate villages (Fig 4). Mining around Leadhills/Wanlockhead has a history dating long before the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold nuggetfrom Leadhills, Lanarkshire. N June 6, 1940, Mr. John Blackwood of Leadhills, while searching...the head of the Shortcleuch Water, LeadhiUs, Lanarkshire, a spot which has for many years been the happy...hunting ground of Mr. Blackwood and John D. Weir, Leadhills' two most persistent and successful gold winners...(wrongly shown on the six-inch Ordnance map, Lanarkshire 49 NE., as Lauder Cottage) and the junction with...discovered in the Leadhills-Wanlockhead district in the reign of James IV of Scotland, 1488-1513, and there
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
V.—The Leadhills-Wanlockhead Lead and Zinc Deposits. By A. K. Temple, B.Sc, Ph.D., Department of Geology...Issued separately May 24, 1956) SYNOPSIS THE Leadhills-Wanlockhead mining field is situated within a...synclinorial belt of greywackes, bounded to the north and south by anticlinoria in which lower stratigraphical elements...order of 2000-4000 feet below the surface. The Leadhills-Wanlockhead deposits are related to other lead-zinc...INTRODUCTION LEADHILLS and Wanlockhead are situated in the Southern Uplands of Scotland, on the northern
Report (issue)
82(4) β = 90.46(2)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Leadhills, Scotland; nearly identical to susannite. (ICDD 18-705)...Association: Cerussite, anglesite, lanarkite, caledonite, linarite (Leadhills, Scotland); cerussite, caledonite...Arizona, USA). Distribution: In Scotland, from Leadhills, Lanarkshire, and Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire;...Name: For its initially-noted occurrence at Leadhills, Scotland. Type Material: Natural History Museum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonates such as azurite, smithsonite, and cerussite. These zones are also known to produce rare secondary...localities, in this case the very long history of Leadhills in the heart of Scotland’s lead mining district;...leadhillite in 1832, establishing the Susanna mine, Leadhills, as the type locality (Dana 1896). There has only...crystals to 5 mm, from the Susanna mine, Leadhills, Scotland. This is the underside of the specimen shown...as lanarkite, anglesite, linarite, caledonite, cerussite, susannite, and pyromorphite. It is not uncommon
Thesis/Dissertation
Boston Spa, Wetherby West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ www.bl,uk ORIGINAL COpy TIGHTLY BOUND IMAGING SERVICES NORTH... ABSTRACT. The principal structural pattern of the Leadhills;1anlockhead district, imposed by the Caledonian...order of 2000 ' -4000 ' below the surface.. The Leadhills-Uanlockhead area is related to other lead-zinc.... ·.. (iv) • •• 1 I. The Geology of the Leadhills-i';anlockhead district The Stratigraphy ••• •••...• • • 0 0 • • •• II. Hineralogy of the Leadhills-1·fanlockhead district Introduction .0. • •• List
Report (issue)
5.698(3) c = 7.079(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: [Scotland?] (ICDD 18-702). 2.95 (100), 3.33 (80), 2.85 (30)...(2) 15.21 84.79 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Leadhills, Scotland; recalculated to 100% after deduction of...Association: Cerussite, leadhillite, susannite, hydrocerussite, caledonite. Distribution: In Scotland, large...large crystals from the Susanna mine, Leadhills, Lanarkshire; at the Meadowfoot smelter, near Wanlockhead...Transvaal, South Africa, in slag. In the Ediacara lead mine, 19 km west of Beltana, South Australia.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/apgeochem Quantitative determination of cerussite (lead carbonate) by X-ray powder di€raction and...stream sediments from a former lead mining area in Scotland S. Hillier a,*, K. Suzuki b, J. Cotter-Howells...Aberdeen, Scotland AB15 8QH, UK b Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Aberdeen, Scotland AB24...AB24 3UU, UK Received 30 July 1999; accepted 1 June 2000 Editorial handling by R. Fuge Abstract Most current...size-fractions of stream sediment samples from Leadhills/Wanlockhead, SW Scotland, an historic Pb mining area. Comparison
Journal (issue)
INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and Scotland into Highland, Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue
Report (issue)
333(2) c = 6.405(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Leadhills, Scotland. 3.99 (10), 3.25 (8), 3.38 (7), 2.66 (7)...77.70 Total 97.73 96.92 100.00 (1) Leadhills, Scotland; by electron microprobe, sulfite confirmed...susannite, barite (Leadhills, Scotland); leadhillite, susannite, macphersonite, cerussite, pyromorphite,...labelled as coming from the Susanna mine, Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland. At Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells...Forest, Germany. At Tsumeb, Namibia. Name: For Scotland, within which the first specimen was found. Type
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
revising entries in Heddle's (1901) Mineralogy of Scotland endeavouring to produce an up-to-date glossary...Glossary we consider that 399 valid species occur in Scotland. Many of these species are substantiated by X-ray...seven minerals have recently been discovered in Scotland and are additional to the Glossary. These minerals...task for the British Isles but have done so for Scotland. By detailing the first, or earliest-found, reference...the period 1961-70 thirty-five species new to Scotland were recorded as compared to one hundred between
Report (issue)
464(5) Z = [0:5] X-ray Powder Pattern: Leadhills, Scotland. 2.988 (100), 4.32 (40), 4.13 (40), 2.877...83.99 2.67 6.03 0.60 99.11 100.00 (1) Leadhills, Scotland; by electron microprobe, average of two analyses;...oxidized lead minerals. Association: Lanarkite, cerussite, anglesite, pyromorphite, hydrocerussite, caledonite...macphersonite. Distribution: From Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In England, from the Brae Fells,...mineralogist. Type Material: Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, GY 721.34; The Natural History Museum
Catalog/List
25. 2. A~~DINE. 3. ANGLESITE. Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Long, spear-like, creamy coloured...intergrO\1U crystals encrusting matrix with minor Cerussite in association. 3x2". £8. 11. BARYTOCALCITE...BREWSTERITE. Bellsgrove Mine, Strontian, Argyll, Scotland. Superb, transparent, sharp crystals, thickly...length. lttx5t". £15. • 25. CERUSSITE. Susanna Mine, Leadhills, Lanarkshire. lL nass of lustrous gl~ssy...Chalcocite crystals. 4--~x2t". £10. 28. CHhLCO?YRITE. South hoskear Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Large, sha rp
Journal (issue)
ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL...such an extent that we lose touch with the local UK scene, but the variations in the mineralogical scene...indecent; just your average bunch of collectors in fact. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -2- GODDESS...determines to what class of minerals they belong. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -3- Encyclopaedia
Report (issue)
570(1) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Susanna mine, Scotland; nearly identical to leadhillite, from which it...caledonite, cerussite (Leadhills, Scotland). Distribution: From the Susanna mine, Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland...first-noted occurrence in the Susanna mine, Leadhills, Scotland. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman
Report (issue)
82.75 1.67 Total 100.3 101.64 100.00 (1) Leadhills, Scotland; by electron microprobe, average of ten analyses...deposits. Association: Leadhillite, susannite, cerussite, caledonite, pyromorphite, scotlandite, mattheddleite...Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, France. At Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland. From the Red Gill mine, Caldbeck...Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland. Type Material: Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland, 721.34; Museum of...(1984) Macphersonite, a new mineral from Leadhills, Scotland, and Saint-Prix, France – a polymorph of
Book (volume)
one and a Sutherland. an outlier half miles south of Cape Wrath, near Torridon Conglomerate, in...its turn to Glen Tilt, in beds, greenish-grey. south-west of Ben Vuroch, Blair Athole, earthy, banded...Kirkton, masses in limestone of Yoredale age. Lanarkshire: : imbedded Tinto, in the imbedded Kirk Burn...Barlocco LIBRARY CALIFORNIA THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND Printed by Nfill and Company, Limited, Edinburgh...MACLEHOSE AND SONS. CO., LIM. THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND BY THE LATE M. FORSTER HEDDLE, M.D., F.R.S
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mining History and Mineralogy of the Leadhills Orefield, Scotland Brian Jackson Introduction The lead-mining...villages of Wanlockhead and Leadhills in the Southern Uplands of Scotland are famous for the discovery...have migrated along major structures such as the Leadhills fault from sedimentary basins in the Midland valley...in brecciated greywackes. Mining history The Leadhills-Wanlockhead area has a long history of mining...marks ihe earliest written evidence for mining at Leadhills-Wanlockhead, archaeological evidence such as stone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
112 VI.--2~rotes on Vauqudinite from Scotland, and Cantonite from Gornwall. BY T~os. DAVIEs, F.G.S....polariseope, from a specimen brought from the Leadhills, Lanarkshire, which came into my possession some ~ears...of massive greenish pyromorphito mingled with cerussite, upon this occurs the vauquelinite. The remaining...distinctive reactions were obtained as in that from Leadhills. 113 VAUQUELINITE AND ~JANTONITE. Cov~.~LIT~...well-known American specimens. Associated species, cerussite. I have to thank Mr. C. C. Ross of Penzance for
Report (issue)
Cerussite PbCO3 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point Group:...From Mežica (Mies), Slovenia. At Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland. From the Frankmills mine, Christow...at Tsumeb and in the Kombat Cu–Pb–Ag mine, 49 km south of Tsumeb, Namibia. At the Nakhlak mine, Anarak...district, Iran. In Australia, from Broken Hill, New South Wales; at the Magnet and other mines, near Dundas...Zemann (1992) Neutron single-crystal refinement of cerussite, PbCO3 , and comparison with other aragonite-type
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pseudomorphs of pyromorphite after galena and cerussite are reported, as are those of apatite, galena...of some ore deposits, such as Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England;...important ore mineral. Associated species can include cerussite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, anglesite, malachite...vicinity of old lead mines at Middletown, with cerussite and wulfenite as a trace mineral in pegmatites...Connecticut. It is reported from the Sparta copper mine south of Ossining, Westchester County, New York. Tiny
 
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