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Pyromorphite & Crocoite

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Pyromorphite & Crocoite

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Description
Locality: 
Nontron, Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 5.5 × 3 cm
Description

Intense green pyromorphite crystals on limonitic matrix from Le Cantonnier vien in Nontron, Dordogne. Two millimetric orange crocoïte crystals are nicely arranged at the center of the piece. Good pyromorphite from this very small locale is really hard to come by.

Collected: 
2019
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

Crocoite

Formula: 
Pb(CrO4)
Strunz: 
7.FA.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Tsvetnoi Mine, Uspenskaya Mt, Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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