Anglesite

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About AnglesiteHide
Formula:PbSO4Colour:Colorless to white, often tinted grey, yellow, green or blue;
colourless in transmitted light.Lustre:Adamantine, Vitreous, ResinousHardness:2� -
3Specific Gravity:6.37 - 6.39Crystal System:OrthorhombicMember of:Baryte
GroupName:Named in 1832 by Francois Sulpice Beudant for the type locality, the
Parys Mine on the Island of Anglesey (Ynys M�n) in Wales, U.K.Type Locality:? Parys
Mountain Mines, Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey, Wales, UKIsostructural with:Baryte,
Celestine
Baryte Group.

Along with cerussite, the most common secondary lead mineral.

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Classification of AnglesiteHide
IMA status:Approved, 'Grandfathered' (first described prior to 1959)
Strunz 8th ed.:6/A.09-50
Nickel-Strunz 10th (pending) ed.:7.AD.35

7 : SULFATES (selenates, tellurates, chromates, molybdates, wolframates)

A : Sulfates (selenates, etc.) without additional anions, without H2O
D : With only large cations
Dana 7th ed.:28.3.1.3
Dana 8th ed.:28.3.1.3

28 : ANHYDROUS ACID AND NORMAL SULFATES

3 : AXO4
Hey's CIM Ref.:25.7.3

25 : Sulphates
7 : Sulphates of Pb
Pronounciation of AnglesiteHide
Pronounciation:
Play Recorded by Country
Jolyon & Katya Ralph United Kingdom
Physical Properties of AnglesiteHide
Lustre:Adamantine, Vitreous, Resinous
Transparency:Transparent, Translucent, Opaque
Colour:Colorless to white, often tinted grey, yellow, green or blue; colourless in
transmitted light.
Streak:Colorless
Hardness:2� - 3 on Mohs scale
Tenacity:Brittle
Cleavage:Distinct/Good
Good on {001}, distinct on {201}; on {010} in traces.
Parting:Translation gliding and twin gliding occur (as in baryte).
Fracture:Conchoidal
Density:6.37 - 6.39 g/cm3 (Measured) 6.36 g/cm3 (Calculated)
Optical Data of AnglesiteHide
Type:Biaxial (+)
RI values:na = 1.878 n� = 1.883 n? = 1.895
2V:Measured: 75� , Calculated: 68�
Max Birefringence:
d = 0.017
Image shows birefringence interference colour range (at 30�m thickness)
and does not take into account mineral colouration.
Surface Relief:Very High
Dispersion:relatively strong
Chemical Properties of AnglesiteHide
Formula:PbSO4
IMA Formula:Pb(SO4)
Elements listed:O, Pb, S - search for minerals with similar chemistry
Common Impurities:Ba,Cu
Crystallography of AnglesiteHide
Crystal System:Orthorhombic
Class (H-M):mmm (2/m 2/m 2/m) - Dipyramidal
Space Group:Pnma
Cell Parameters:a = 8.48 �, b = 5.39 �, c = 6.95 �
Ratio:a:b:c = 1.573 : 1 : 1.289
Unit Cell V:317.67 ų (Calculated from Unit Cell)
Morphology:Crystals frequently thin to thick tabular {001}, commonly with {210},
{101} and rhomboidal in outline. Also extended [100] or [010] at times. Prismatic
[001] with large {210} and vertically striated; prismatic [100], with large {011};
stout prismatic [010], with {101}, {102}; tabular {100}; equant or pyramidal with
{111}, {211} or otherwise. {100} and {210} commonly striated [001]. Massive;
granular to compact; nodular; stalactitic.
Twinning:None observed.
Crystallographic forms of Anglesit