Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Crocoite On Pyromorphite

Views:
Watches:
PJM102945

Crocoite On Pyromorphite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Kosminsky Mine, Dundas, West Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

A great thumbnail from a lesser known Tasmanian deposit. Bright, sharp and terminated orange crystals of crocoite is small clusters arranged in in lines across a field of dark green pyromorphite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Crocoite

Formula: 
Pb(CrO4)
Strunz: 
7.FA.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Tsvetnoi Mine, Uspenskaya Mt, Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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
Earthstones Australia

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps

Seller's terms and conditions

All goods must be paid for prior to shipping, all bids are binding.