Also known as minera plumbi virides, phosphomimetite
Pyromorphite is a mineral species composed of lead chlorophosphate: Pb5(PO4)3Cl, sometimes occurring in sufficient abundance to be mined as an ore of lead. Crystals are common, and have the form of a hexagonal prism terminated by the basal planes, sometimes combined with narrow faces of a hexagonal pyramid. Crystals with a barrel-like curvature are not uncommon. Globular and reniform masses are also found.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Pyromorphite
- Mineral.category
- Phosphate mineral Apatite group
- Mineral.image
- Pyromorphite - Santa Eufemia, Cordoba, Spain.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.formula
- Pb5(PO4)3Cl
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Pym
- Mineral.strunz
- 8.BN.05
- Mineral.system
- Hexagonal
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (6/m) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P63/m
- Mineral.color
- Dark green to grass-green or green, yellow, yellow-orange, reddish orange, yellow-brown, greenish-yellow or yellowish-green, shades of brown, tan, grayish, white and may be colorless; colourless or faintly tinted in transmitted light.
- Mineral.habit
- Prismatic to acicular crystals, globular to reniform
- Mineral.twinning
- Rarely on {112}
- Mineral.cleavage
- Imperfect- [101]
- Mineral.fracture
- Uneven to sub-conchoidal
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle
- Mineral.mohs
- 3.5–4
- Mineral.luster
- Resinous to subadamantine
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- visual appearance
- Image
- Pyromorphite-171694.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 8.BN.05
- Commons category
- Pyromorphite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 8.BN.05
- streak color
- white
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Pym
- chemical formula
- Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VII/B.16d
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