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Pyromorphite & Baryte

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Pyromorphite & Baryte

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Description
Locality: 
Heilige Dreifaltigkeit Mine, Zschopau, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.80cm
Description

Very good type locality specimen of green, elongated pyromorphite crystals up to 1.8 cm with the extra plus of flaky, colorless baryte growing on the pyromorphite - amybe even susannite (there are also many microscopic colorless crystals on the pyromorphite).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

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