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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite

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Locality: 
El General Mines, Cabezarrubias del Puerto, Ciudad Real, Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5 × 1 cm
Weight: 
31.00gr
Description

Very nice group of pyromorphite crystals of very bright color and excellent brightness, the color is between green and orange and some pieces usually contain small crystallizations of cerussite and wulfenite, the matrix is goethite. These samples were found in a gallery about 90 meters deep.

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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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