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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Chaillac Mine, Chaillac, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.6 × 9 × 5.1 cm
Description

Countless of grass-green crystals of pyromorphite covering quartz-rich matrix. On the second half of the specimen, the colour changes partly into yellow-green. The pyromorphite is well developed, sharp and lustrous. This is a colourful specimen in very good shape from the classic and well known French locality.

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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