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Two classic Scottish minerals in one superb miniature specimen. Lanarkite forms a layer of faintly greenish, to cream, prismatic/bladed crystals, to nearly 10 mm in length, upon, and rising up from, massive undetermined secondary lead mineralization. Within the mass of Lanarkite crystals is a flat-lying aggregate of cream, to beige-coloured platy Leadhillite crystals about 20 mm across. Both species show some damage to the edges of crystals commensurate with age. Leadhillite and Lanarkite were both first described on material from Susanna mine, Leadhills, Strathclyde, Scotland - the old county name being Lanarkshire. This specimen is officially documented as from Leadhills, but in all likelihood it is from Susanna mine. Both species are rarely available for sale, only when old collections get recycled, and Lanarkite much the rarer of the two. It is unusual to get both species as crystals on the same specimen.
38 x 27 x 20 mm