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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Isa, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.5 × 6.5 × 3.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Description

Lustrous, translucent, light yellow to tan pyromorphite prisms to 3 mm are richly scattered on the limonite matrix on this showy and excellent specimen from the less well-known Black Star Open Cut at Mt. Isa, Australia.

Scattered broken crystals are noted, but this remains a highly representative example of the species and uncommon locale. Ex Wolfgang Schneider collection and label.

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