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Galena Psm Pyromorphite - Blaubleierz

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Galena Psm Pyromorphite - Blaubleierz

Pseudomorph

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Description
Locality: 
Kautenbach Mine, Traben-Trarbach, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.8 × 5.7 × 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Weight: 
150.00gr
Description

One of our best blaubleierz specimens ever - and certainly the richest. More than 30 crystals without matrix. Amongst the most important and sought after German classics. Also called 'plumbeine' this is a pseudomorph of galena after pyromorphite, only found in this size and quality at the Kautenbach mine (long closed). This specimen is surely from the late 19th to early 20th Century.

The biggest crystal has a diameter of 1.5 cm - a very good size for this material. Some of the greenish yellow pyromorphite has not been completely replaced by the galena. Here and there a few remnants of minor pyrite, commonly associated with the 'blaublei'.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey

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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