Habit: Native lead is gray-white, tarnishing to dull lead-grey, commonly round masses and plates. Rare as octahedral, cubic and dodecahedral crystals.
Environment: Native lead is rare in Nature. Hydrothermal origin, and found in placers.
Etymology: Yukon, Canada; Franklin, New Jersey, USA; El Dorado, Gran Sabana, Venezuela; Långban, Värmland, Sweden; Ilimaussaq, Greenland.
From the Latin plumbum, this is why the atomic symbol is Pb.