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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Resuperferolitica Mine, Santa Eufemia, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 5 × 3 cm
Description

Lustrous hexagonal crystals of pyromorphite stacked in parallel growths. The colour range from green to light-cream, are implanted on a quartz and galena matrix. These pyromorphites are already a modern European Classic. In very good condition, it is mounted on a methacrylate socle.

Found in 1995. Ex.A. Alvarez specimen.

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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