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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Old Luganure Mine, Glendasan, County Wicklow, Irish Republic (Eire)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.8 × 2.5 cm
Description

Beautiful yellow-green pyromorphite crystals on a nicely contrasting dark matrix. A good litle specimen from a rarely offered Irish locality. 

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
Peter Crozier Minerals