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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Josephine Mine, Rützhausen, Velbert, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 10.7 × 3.2 cm
Description

Rich specimen with small, resinous lustrous, green crystals. An older label give the information, that the specimen comes from the mine. But in the course of activities in the quarry rohdenhaus would meet this mine. One time i saw a gallows by the excursion.

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