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Wulfenite & Pyromorphite

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CR145573

Wulfenite & Pyromorphite

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Rusca Montană, Poiana Ruscă Mountains, Caraş-Severin County, Romania
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 4 × 3.3 cm
Description

This is a very old specimen with a fantastic old label - collected in the 19th century.

Deep orange wulfenite crystals on a bed of tiny green pyromorphite with minor cerussite.

Ex Dietmar Möhler collection, Austria.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wulfenite

Formula: 
Pb(MoO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

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