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Pyromorphite & Malachite

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Pyromorphite & Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Brown's Prospect, Rum Jungle, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 1.5 × 1.4 cm
Description

This beautiful minature is not from the recent finds that have had the mineral world buzzing. This is from the original excavations made in the mid to late '70s. This piece is superb with groups of lustrous plae green rounded crystals and a knob of large green crystallised malachite at one end. There is minor cerussite. No damage.

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

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
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