Pyromorphite over Galena with Quartz from Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION: | No. 60387
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Mineral: | Pyromorphite over Galena with Quartz
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Locality: | Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania |
Description: | Translucent green pyromorphite microcrystals in coatings and hemispherical aggregates to 1.5 mm diameter over a 30 mm cubo-octahedral gray-metallic galena crystal (almost a pseudomorph) with a few transparent quartz crystals on some faces. Ex. W. Keller #7181; Ex. A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum #DM11781 (DM code = Display Mineral); ex. Rawlings collection |
Overall Size: | 4x3.5x3 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 30 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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