Pyromorphite

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A very rare example of this style of yellowish, barrel-shaped crystals on white karst-like matrix, from the classic French locale. Very few of these have turned up to market, and I was told by several older French collectors that they might have been mined as far back as the 1960s or as recently as a pocket in 1980, but in any case few are seen. This very rich piece with good color and excellent, waxy luster, was purchased from an old colection being sold at the Munich show about 2005, by pyromorphite-collector Karl Warning. It is relatively large, and very colorful. Most people would assume that it was from Bunker Hill in Idaho, for the color alone - though the matrix is distinctively Les Farge and Not from the more common finds in Idaho in the 1980s. Joe Budd Photos.