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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Beim Stollen Mine, Tanzfleck, Grafenwöhr, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 6 × 5.5 cm
Description

Beautiful and sharp, yellow-green pyromorphite crystals on sandstone from the classic locale in Bavaria, Germany.

Old and very good specimen with rather large crystals - collected 1976.

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