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Pyromorphite over Galena with Quartz from Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania

 
Pyromorphite over Galena with Quartz from Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Pyromorphite over Galena with Quartz from Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Pyromorphite over Galena with Quartz from Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Pyromorphite over Galena with Quartz from Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Pyromorphite over Galena with Quartz from Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Pyromorphite over Galena with Quartz from Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Pyromorphite over Galena with Quartz from Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania

DESCRIPTION:No. 60387
Mineral:Pyromorphite over Galena with Quartz
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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