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Pyromorphite Psm Galena & Quartz

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Pyromorphite Psm Galena & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
L'Argentolle Mine, Saint-Prix, Saint-Léger-sous-Beuvray, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5.5 × 3.2 cm
Weight: 
102.00gr
Description

A specimen featuring countless small pyromorphite kegs, often coated with a blue-grey mineral (plumbogummite ?), on white quartz. On a side, one can spot a hollow galena cube, dissolved and plagued by pyromorphite.

From a hard to come by locality in the Morvan massif.

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

Galena

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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