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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Gute Hoffnung Mine, Bleibur, Mechernich, Eifel, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 3 × 1.8 cm
Description

A "modern" classic although this mine is an old locality and long time abandoned, but yielded quite some good and rich specimens in recent times: intense green crystallized pyromorphite on a matrix of Bunter (triassic) sandstone from this old lead mine of the Mechernich district.

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

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