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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Gemünd Mine, Bleibuir, Mechernich, Eifel, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Description

Olivegreen prismatic crystals of pyromorphite are sitting rich on sandstone. Not from the famous Gute Hoffnung mine at Bescheid where intensive green pyromorphites known but from another even not very well known mine in the near of it.

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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