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Embreyite & Pyromorphite

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Embreyite & Pyromorphite

ex Jürgen Zindel collection, Chemitz

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Description
Locality: 
Callenberg North Open Cut #2, Callenberg, Glauchau, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Description

Tiny orange embreyite crystals and groups with green-yellow pyromorphite and minor red-orange crocoite forming a earthy mass on all sides of a dark brown coronadite/limonite matrix.

Found in 1982

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Embreyite

Formula: 
Pb5(CrO4)2(PO4)2·H2O
Strunz: 
7.FC.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Colour: 
Orange
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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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