Cerussite, 13.5 cm, from the Wheatley mine, Chester County, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Originally sold by early Philadelphia mineral dealer Albert E. Foote; ex collections of Erlon Chadbourn, the Harvard Mineralogical Museum, Philip Scalisi and George Loud. László Kupi photo.
Wheatley Mines, USA, a historic 19th-century lead-zinc locality near Phoenixville, PA, famed for pyromorphite and other oxidized sulfides prized by collectors.
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