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This specimen of is from the Red Lead Mine, Dundas Tasmania, weighs 268g and measures 7cm x 4cm x 3.5cm. This piece has a section of well formed larger Cerussite crystals exposed in one main area that have a slight yellow tinge referred to as “Chrome Cerussite”. Smaller clear Cerussite crystals are visible throughout the cavities in the rest of the piece.

Chromium is an amazing chromophore, one of the most intense in the mineral world. It has the ability to creating intense green and red hues in certain minerals, but in the case of the Cerussite, chromium creates a rarely seen yellow hue. The specimens from Dundas, Tasmania are certainly the most well-known examples of Chrome-Cerussite, featuring excellent crystallized examples with that classic yellow colour. However there is some debate that the yellow colour has more to do with Croicoite inclusions affecting the colour of the Cerussite crystals.

The Red Lead Mine is in the Dundas district, located about 10km to the north east of Zeehan on Tasmania's west coast. It is an old silver lead mine, but presently worked for crocoite specimens and is one of the main crocoite producing mines in the world. Originally worked as an old underground lead mine, it has been open cut in recent years but presently operations have shifted underground with the reopening of some old adits.

Cerussite:-

Cerussite is a lead ore whose name derives from the Latin word cerussa, meaning white lead. Since the 5th Century BC, the synthesized form of cerusite, lead carbonate, has been used as pigment in paintings. Today, cerussite is highly valued by collectors because of the stone’s brilliant sparkle, which comes from its high lead content.

Collectors also value the stone’s complex, twinned crystals. Cerussite can range in colour from white to grey, green, and black, but it is usually colorless. Cerussite has a beautiful adamantine, diamond-like lustre and can be transparent to translucent. It is a brittle and soft stone, rating only a 3 to 3.5 on the hardness scale. Because of its fragility, it must be handled with care. Cerussite is very difficult to cut and as a result, faceted cerussite gems are highly valued, however the softness of the gem makes it impossible to have any value as a gemstone. It is usually cut only for collectors only.

Cerussite is very helpful for stubborn people. It teaches the importance of short-term compromise and helps us adjust to situations where our inner resistance holds us back. Cerussite also teaches us how to be tactful in many different situations and helps us concentrate on our goals. It aids us in understanding why we are on this earth, what our tasks are, and what gifts we have that we can help the world with.

Sometimes cerussite is confused with diamond and other colorless gems, however its most distinguishing quality, its high density, makes it easy to distinguish the stone upon further investigation. Cerussite has very intricately twinned structures. There are three types of shapes cerusite can have; chevron shapes are the ones found most, reticulated crystals are the most complex, and cyclic crystals create six pointed stars. Some of the most valued cerussite can be up to 2 feet tall, and is found in Tsumeb, in northern Namibia.

These crystals tend to be clear, transparent, and colorless, and are the most valuable form of cerussite. These are usually found around lead ores. Cerussite is of secondary origin, found in the oxidized zone of lead veins. It is found in association with many other minerals including anglesite, galena, smithsonite, promorphite and sphalerite. Non-colorless cerusite derives some of its colour from the minerals with which it is associated. For example, a cerussite sample rich in galena will appear grey, the colour of galena, while one rich in malachite will appear green, the colour of malachite.