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Quartz & Pyromorphite

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Quartz & Pyromorphite

Collected by John & Robert Lawson
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Description
Locality: 
Hard Rigg Edge, Ousby, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 4 × 2.8 cm
Weight: 
87.00gr
Description

An attractive and usual specimen from the locality displaying small green pyromorphite crystals partially coating quartz crystals. There are actually 2 generations of quartz here. The first was of colourless crystals which were then coated with a second generation of opaque creamy white quartz showing complex growth patterns. LC

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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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