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Pyromorphite

Ex. Roger Gnat (BE)
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Beim Stollen Mine, Tanzfleck, Grafenwöhr, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 5.2 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Description

Lustrous light-green pyromorphite crystals on a typical sandstone matrix. Specimens from this locality, sush as this one, can be only obtained from old collection because the mine has been inaccessible over the pass 40 years.

Acquired in 1986. Ex Roger Gnat Collection (Belgium)

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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