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Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Himmelreich Mine, Wolkenstein, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
5 × 7 × 2 cm
Description

On gneiss hostrock perch nicely single arranged yellow green wormlike shaped crystals of arsenic bearing pyromorphite. The material has been investigated by TU Freiberg with the result that the ratio of Arsenate and Phosphate is 50/50. On of the best samples of this find.

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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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110