Min. [Named by Beudant, 1832, from Leadhills in Scotland, the locality where it was found: see -ITE.] A sulphato-carbonate of lead, found in whitish pearly crystals.
1835. C. U. Shepard, Treat. Min., II. 6.
1852. Phillips’ Min., 565. Haidinger … was led to suppose the crystallization of leadhillite to be oblique.
1885. Erni, Min. Simplified, 262. Leadhillite … crystallizes in the orthorhombic system.
