cerussite
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Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
white lead ore
calcite
apatite
azurite
argentite
barite
calamine
bornite
adamite
bournonite
anglesite
brochantite
bindheimite
hopeite
aurichalcite
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Oxygen and sulfur isotope records Baryte with cerussite from Morocco In the deep ocean, away from continental sources of sediment, pelagic baryte precipitates and forms a significant amount of the sediments.
Prospectors traced the cerussite to its source, present day Leadville, and by 1876 had discovered several silver-lead lode deposits.