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Cerussite & Pyromorphite

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Cerussite & Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Mechernicher Bleiberg, Mechernich, Eifel, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4.8 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Description

Interesting specimen of white elongated cerussite crystals and a brown cauliflower pyromorphite on a quartz pebble coated with limonite. The Bleiberg (lead mountain) is the only locality I know of where you could find lead-minerals in concretions of quartz pebbles.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cerussite

Formula: 
PbCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy

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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