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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Driggith Mine, Caldbeck, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 6 × 5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Description

A quartzite "floater" full of apple green pyromorphite crystals in the shape of American footballs. There are thousands of crystals, up to 3 mm, all around the matrix piece. Little matrix showing possible attachment.

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

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