Minium
sold- Locality
- Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
- Minerals
- Minium
- Dimensions
- 9 x 5 x 4 cm
- Size class
- Small Cabinet
- SID
- B453
Bright red/orange Minium over matrix. Minium is lead tetraoxide and the color is intense and spectacular. Its genesis relates to oxidation of lead minerals during underground mine fires that occurred at Broken Hill.