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Pyromorphite Var Blaubleierz

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Pyromorphite Var Blaubleierz

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Kautenbach Mine, Traben-Trarbach, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 2 cm
Description

Blaubleierz is a pseudomorphosis of galena after pyromorphite and Kautenbach produced the finest specimens. This specimen shows some well terminated pyromorphite that is in the stadium of transforming into galena. That's quite unusual as the most specimens are already transformed. That kind is a rarity, hard to obtain!

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

Blaubleierz

Variety Of: 

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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