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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Resuperferolitica Mine, Santa Eufemia, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.3 × 5.1 × 2.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Description

Lustrous hexagonal prismatic crystals of pyromorphite implanted in a porous matrix of quartz and whitish pyromorphite. Some minor grey galena is present but most of it was dissolved, being the source of Pb to form the pyromorphite crystals and a spongy matrix.

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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