Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Malachite & Pyromorphite

Views:
Watches:
PJM106710

Malachite & Pyromorphite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory, Australia
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15.3 × 8.7 × 4.9 cm
Description

Collected in the mid 1970's prior to the Victorian Museum digs at Rum Jungle, this is a fine malachite specimen.

The malachite is in botyroidal masses and has formed a cavity  or hood over the main botyroidal grouping. the malachite then has a creamy wash of pyromorphite grading to short yellow crystals in places.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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.