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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
San Andrés Mine, Espiel, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.8 × 1.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Description

A quartz matrix richly covered by prismatic bundles of beautiful curved pyromorphite crystals of intense green colour and very good waxy lustre. Crystals are pointed, with acute ends, and it was probably found at the “Tunnel Geode”.

Acquired in 1998, it is a former collection of Roger Gnat.

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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