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Kintoreite & Pyromorphite

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Kintoreite & Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Vereinigung Mine, Eisenbach, Selters, Limburg-Weilburg, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 6.8 × 1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.05cm
Description

Brown corkite in crystals and crystalgroups up to 0.5 mm large are sitting with some colourless pyromorphite on limonite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kintoreite

Formula: 
PbFe3(PO4)(PO3OH)(OH)6
Strunz: 
8.BL.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Kintore opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

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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