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Pyromorphite & Coronadite

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Pyromorphite & Coronadite

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Description
Locality: 
Old Luganure Mine, Glendasan, County Wicklow, Irish Republic (Eire)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.6 × 3.5 × 0.5 cm
Weight: 
9.00gr
Description

Thin quartz matrix with green pyromorphite crystals associated with dark coronadite. Some of the pyromorphite crystals display nice colour zoning.

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

Coronadite

Formula: 
Pb(Mn64+Mn23+)O16
Strunz: 
4/D.08-70
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4½ - 5
Colour: 
Dark gray, black
Type Locality: 
Horseshoe Mine, Coronado Mine, Coronado vein, Copper Plate Gulch, Copper Mountain District, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Isostructural with: 
Cryptomelane
Ferrihollandite
Hollandite
Manjiroite
Strontiomelane

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