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Pyromorphite On Quartz

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Pyromorphite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
La Vidale, Asprières, Aveyron, Occitanie, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.8 × 9.9 × 8.3 cm
Description

A giant French pyromorphite specimen with more than a hundred glossy, yellowish green pyromorphite crystals in a quartz vug. Only a few dings and contact marks on a few of the pyromorphite crystals on the sides of the vug.

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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