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Wulfenite & Pyromorphite

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Wulfenite & Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Wheatley Mines, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1.1 × 1 cm
Description

You are a small sample with many vugs hosting bright green pyromorphite crystals with a few small wulfenite tablets. Wulfenite is quite rare from Wheatley. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wulfenite

Formula: 
Pb(MoO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

Pyromorphite

Formula: 
Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Zschopau, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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