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Pyromorphite Galena & Coronadite

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Pyromorphite Galena & Coronadite

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Description
Locality: 
Old Luganure Mine, Glendasan, County Wicklow, Irish Republic (Eire)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 6 × 6 cm
Description

Numerous bright apple green pyromorphite crystals contrasting nicely with an underlying layer of black coronadite. Galena cleavages present on the reverse.

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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

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey

Coronadite

Formula: 
Pb(Mn64+Mn23+)O16
Strunz: 
4/D.08-70
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4½ - 5
Colour: 
Dark gray, black
Type Locality: 
Horseshoe Mine, Coronado Mine, Coronado vein, Copper Plate Gulch, Copper Mountain District, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Isostructural with: 
Cryptomelane
Ferrihollandite
Hollandite
Manjiroite
Strontiomelane
Peter Crozier Minerals