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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
North Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.1 × 1.7 cm
Description

Pyromorphite is seldom seen from the North mine at Broken Hill unlike many of the other mines in this deposit. This thumbnail comsists of small brecciated shards of matrix completely encapsuled in apple green pyromorphite crystals which in places has a milky appearance due to kaolin deposited over the pyromorphite crystals

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
Earthstones Australia

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