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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Domusnovas, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6 × 8 × 5.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.25cm
Weight: 
272.00gr
Description

A gossan matrix harbours bi-color, sparkling, prismatic crystals of pyromorphite (please, enlarge pictures for a better resolution). Crystals are light green and translucent at the base of the prism, becoming light yellow at the termination. Many of them have the pinacoid truncated by small faces of pyramid.

This specimen has not been analyzed; I presume a commistion of mimetite-pyromorphite, as aready known for the not so far Santa Lucia mine.

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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