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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.8 × 0.4 cm
Description

This specimen has interesting provenance, it was one of the last specimens to be sold from the Ambulance Room at the South Mine. It marked an end of an era for mineral collecting at Broken Hill

This thumbnail is classic broken Hill, deep coffee brown tappering crystals of pyromorphite with near black terminations, off matrix.

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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