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Pyromorphite

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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Gute Hoffnung Mine, Bleibur, Mechernich, Eifel, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 5 × 2.5 cm
Description

An older pyromorphite specimen from the Gute Hoffnung Mine with a rich coverage of apple-green crystals on typical sandstone conglomerate.

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