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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 3.2 × 1.5 cm
Description

Aggregates of small, prismatic, apple green pyromorphite crystals (many doubly terminated) on a bed of dark green botryoidal malachite. This is a great specimen from a world class deposit!

Collected in November 2010.

This location has been flooded since 2012 and is not likely to produce any more specimens!

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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