Pyromorphite

Unknown Owner

Help improve this recordNo owner is registered for this specimen yet. If it's yours or you know more about it, you can add the owner, provenance, publications and other details.

Mercur mine at Bad Ems in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany is one of the most famous localities for Pyromorphite in Europe - renowned for its magnificent olive-green resinous curved, slightly barrel-shaped crystals aggregated in pure dense masses. This cute thumbnail-sized aggregate of distinctive khaki-green hexagonal prisms with prominent stepped narrower and slightly hoppered terminations is quite unlike most other Pyromorphite specimens I have seen and makes for a really lovely crystal cluster. Individually the crystals reach about 1 cm in length. Ex Hettrich Collection.