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Galena Psm Psm Pyromorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Kautenbach Mine, Traben-Trarbach, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

First of all - never again something like this will be discoverd: the mine is a tourist mine and stoped production in 1883, so this piece is at least 140 years old, most likely from the 1860ties. This small locality is the only place in the world that vere produced this pseudomorph of Galena after Pyromorphite, it is one of the most rare pseudomorph minerals on earth and for sure among the most wanted and most famous pseudomorph sample world-wide. The crystals are sharp terminated and undamaged. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Galena

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

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