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Pyromorphite - Sold
- Society Girl mine
- Moyie
- British Columbia
- Canada
- 1.6 by 1.4 by 1.1 cm – Thumbnail specimen (fits into a 2.5 cm cube)
Pyromorphite is a lead phosphate chloride. Hausmann (1813) named the mineral by combining Greek roots pyr, fire, and morphe, form, since the mineral assumes a crystalline form when cooling off from a melt.
This is a single cavernous pyromorphite crystal, free of matrix. The color seems to grade from a green color at the center becoming first green-yellow and finally yellow-green towards the extremities. The top of the termination is almost brown.