In another part of the same rock the #Cerussite has formed fragile, clear elongated forms.
I managed to take this focus stacked image before accidentally crushing it with my thumb.
We've been walking the dogs here for years, casually searching & only finding the odd old crusty pyrite - so this was a nice surprise.
Squarish, tabular #Cerussite scattered across an orange matrix, surrounded by exposed #Galena with typical right angled breakage planes.
#Fossicked from #MineWaste at Wheal Clinton, Flushing, #Cornwall. Found below the high tide level, beneath the main shaft of an old lead/silver mine (now in a rich person's enormous garden overlooking the sea).
Some of the galena is tarnished blue indicating it has a high silver content (~3% according to historical records).
OUR heavenly astrology expert Hernestus has advised me that this moon phase is the Capricorn First Quarter Moon which is the "Merchant Moon...
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