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Pyromorphite On Quartz

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Pyromorphite On Quartz

ex collection Norbert Fenten
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Description
Locality: 
Bad Ems, Rhein-Lahn, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13.7 × 8.3 × 5.5 cm
Weight: 
444.00gr
Description

A very big specimen with a 'lawn' of hundreds of apple-green, zonar-colored pyromorphite crystals on iron-oxides-stained quartz matrix. One of the best specimen I managed to get a while ago.

From the famous Basd Ems finds. The Pfingstwiese mine was one of the last mines in the Bad Ems region to provide specimen. But even this material has completely disappeared from the market 20 to 30 years ago.

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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