Pb(SO4)
Anglesite is a common oxidation product of galena in lead deposits. It occurs as translucent to transparent blocky or tabular crystals that are usually colourless, grey or white, but that may also be yellow, green, orange or brown.
The best-known specimens are from Broken Hill. Some of these encrusted or replaced cyclic-twinned cerussite, some replaced galena, and some are themselves replaced by cerussite. Crystals generally are in the millimetres to centimetres in size, but exceptional crystals of 10cm have been recorded.
Crystals of 20 to 30mm in size were recorded from the Comet-Maestries mines, Dundas, Tasmania, and up to 25mm on a specimen collected below the Hercules Mine, Mount Read, Tasmania.
Selected Australian Occurrences:
- Broken Hill, New South Wales.
- Various mines in the Dundas region, Tasmania.
