Mattheddleite

Description

Mattheddleite - microscopic white crystals - associated with grey acicular aggregates of lanarkite, grey platy leadhillite and earthy yellow-green pyromorphite - probably from Susanna Mine, Leadhills, Lanarkshire.

Museum reference

G.1991.31.86

Collection

Natural Sciences

Object name

Mattheddleite

Collection place(s)

Susanna Mine, Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Greenbank Collection
Sutcliffe, Ralph A., 1987 - 2012 (fl.)
Simon Harrison Collection
University of Cambridge, Geology Museum Collection
Confirmed matheddlite 13.9.88: Livingstone, Alec, Dr (NMS)
Lanarkite
Leadhillite
Pyromorphite

On display

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