Hydrocerussite
Mineral Pb3(CO3)2(OH)2
Take care.
- Contains lead: Wash your hands after handling it, keep it away from children, and don't make dust.
About it
Thin, colourless to white six-sided plates with a pearly shine on weathered lead ores and old slags; very heavy. It is the natural form of the white lead pigment; first found at Långban, Sweden.
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Carbonate (with hydroxide)
- Formula
- Pb3(CO3)2(OH)2
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 3.5
- Specific gravity
- 6.8
- Streak
- white
- Lustre
- adamantine (diamond-like), pearly
- Crystal system
- Trigonal
- Colours
- colourless, white, grey
- Transparency
- transparent, translucent
- Cleavage and fracture
- perfect basal
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.