Pyromorphite
ncat JP1331 Minium, Fluorite, Pyromorphite, Hydrocerussite/Laurionite, Avondale Mine, Lyndhurst, Leigh Creek, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Colourless fluorite that fluoresces zoned green under medium and shortwave, with minium under fluorite (not in photo). Hydrocerussite/laurionite occurs as a creamy aggregate, pink and purple fluorescence under mediumwave, duller under shortwave. Tiny acicular pyromorphite lines cavities vacated by galena. Width of view of all photos is 6mm. Click on...
ncat JP1250 Wulfenite, Pyromorphite, Glogfawr Mine, Lisburne Lead and Silver Mines, Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
Drusy green crystals of pyromorphite on quartz. One orange tabular wulfenite (not in photo). Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 140 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2723 Pyromorphite, Quartz, Bunker Hill Mine, Wardner, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
Greenish-yellow crystals showing some sceptre growth. Ex Mark Hallam Collection. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4397 Pyromorphite, Hardshell Mine, Hardshell Gulch, Harshaw, Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
Lemony-green barrel-shaped crystals, some with paler green terminations. Ex Mark Ascher 9/2007. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1696 Pyromorphite, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, UK
Pale coloured pyromorphite that has formed in fractures in galena. The galena has subsequently disappeared. The pyromorphite could be grading into phosphohedyphane. Look closely, and you can also see a blade or two of cerussite. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 105 images. Click on the image below for a...
1308 Pyromorphite, Mexico Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Olive green barrel-shaped hexagonal prisms as well as a more tabular habit. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1334 Pyromorphite, Plumbogummite, Quartz, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Sharp steeply terminated green crystals of pyromorphite, some partly coated with plumbogummite, on quartz crystals. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 115 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP1655 Pyromorphite, Quartz, Burgam Mine (Burgham Mine; Burgum Mine), Stiperstones, Hope-Shelve District, Shropshire, England, UK
Yellowish-green to green hexagonal prisms in clusters. Some tiny colourless quartz crystals. Some zoning. Some barrel-shaped crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5502 Stolzite, Pyromorphite, Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Ortenaukreis, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Yellow prismatic pyromorphite crystals with tiny reddish-brown stolzite (not in photo). Ex John Sobolewski. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 106 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1614 Pyromorphite, Bad Ems, Bad Ems-Nassau, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Pale brown hexagonal crystals with complex terminations. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 72 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD206 Pyromorphite, Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guilin, Guangxi, China
A plate of pyromorphite with the larger crystals zoned and barrel-shaped. Specimen measures 60x50x20mm. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4010 Pyromorphite, Pcheloyad mine, Pcheloyad, Krumovgrad Municipality, Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria
Light brown hexagonal prisms with a partial white coating. Minor sulphides also present (pyrite, galena and sphalerite). Ex Robert Kurcbart 4/2005. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat YA Pyromorphite, Langite, Blackwood Open Cut, MMM Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Deep blue crystalline coating in corroded galena. Also present light blue caledonite(?), and prismatic pyromorphite. Other species also present (eg: spessartine, chlorargyrite). Ex Mal Annear collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4338 JL3150 Scholzite, Corkite-Hinsdalite, Pyromorphite, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Green corkite-hinsdalite on colourless pyromorphite with white scholzite crystals. Ex Joan Lamond Micro Collection. Collected by Joan on a Mineralogical Society of Victoria field trip in 1991. Width of view 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP2577 Wulfenite, Fornacite, Pyromorphite, Halloysite, Whim Creek Copper Mine (Whim Creek Copper prospect; Whim Well Mine), Whim Creek, Roebourne Shire, Western Australia
Thin orange plates of wulfenite with yellow-green rounded pyromorphite, and tiny sharp olive-green fornacite crystals on bluish-white halloysite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 14.5mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1679 Pyromorphite, Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall, England
Pale green hexagonal pyromorphite crystals. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0956 Pyromorphite, Pyromorphite lode, Zeehan Queen mine (“Sylvester-Queen”), West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Transparent green hexagonal prisms, some zoned. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4139 Wulfenite, Pyromorphite, Wheal Mary Ann, Menheniot, Cornwall, England, UK
Tabular yellow wulfenite crystals with green pyromorphite in a cavity in quartz, Obtained from Richard Bell 9/2005. Width of view 2.6mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat MMM Crocoite, Pyromorphite, Le Cantonnier vein, Nontron, Nontron, Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
A small orange crocoite crystal poking out from pyromorphite. Ex Lesenechal Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 94 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2250 Crocoite, Pyromorphite, Transvaal Mine (Argent Mine), Dwarsfontein Farm, Argent, Delmas, Victor Khanye Local Municipality, Nkangala District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Small orange crocoite with green pyromorphite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 42 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat AU002 Fluorite, Minium, Pyromorphite, Avondale Mine, Lyndhurst, South Australia
Tiny colourless fluorite crystals with red minium in a void that would have originally been a galena crystal. Also present, colourless to white acicular (calcium-rich?) pyromorphite crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP0364 Pyromorphite, Chaillac Mine, Chaillac, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Tiny green prisms of pyromorphite an a cavity of fluorite. The top half of the specimen is all massive fluorite and the bottom half, massive barite. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat CA Pyromorphite, Chaillac Mines, Chaillac, Le Blanc, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Small lustrous hexagonal green prisms. Ex Ian Graham. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP373 Fluorite, Pyromorphite, Siderite, Daydream Mine (Meech’s Blow), Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Colourless cubes with a white core of fluorite crystals that glow green under shortwave ultraviolet light. Judging by the colour, it is likely that the fluorescence is due to uranyl ions. A small amount of green pyromorphite, and brown oxidised siderite also present. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view...
ncat WD204 Pyromorphite, Cerussite, Wulfenite, Silver King Mine, Uaroo Station, Pilbara, Western Australia
Five specimens. The one photographed has parallel growth cerussite with “pancake” pyromorphite. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VH498 Pyromorphite, Hyalite Opal, Black Star Open Cut, Mt Isa Mine, Queensland
White globular hyalite opal partially coating one of the greenish barrel-shaped pyromorphite crystals. The opal fluoresces white under longwave UV. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 51 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat WD106 Pyromorphite, Cerussite, Malachite, Brown’s Prospect, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory
A neat reticulated cerussite specimen coated in tiny pyromorphite crystals. Sandwiched between the two is a bit of malachite. Specimen measures 48x45x22mm.
0002 Crocoite, Pyromorphite, Platt Mine, Dundas, Tasmania
Orange-red prismatic crocoite crystals on zoned green pyromorphite hexagonal prisms. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
8014 M3927 Pyromorphite, Brianyoungite, Stolzite, Spessartine, Kintore Opencut dumps, Pinnacles Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
White brianyoungite with colourless-grey pyromorphite and stolzite, both of which fluoresce weakly. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Photo width 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4266 Wulfenite, Pyromorphite, Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Orange tabular wulfenite crystals on yellow pyromorphite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 120 images.
ncat JP1431 Pyromorphite, Corkite, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Green corkite-hinsdalite on pyromorphite. Note the colourless tips of the pyromorphite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1128 Pyromorphite, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
A mass of lime green hexagonal pyromorphite crystals from the MMM South Mine operations. Width of view is 9.5mm. Stack of 15 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version. (Top photo taken with my Canon 750D (that is about 17Mp) with microscope lens attachment compared with...
7410 JL1834 Hinsdalite, Pyromorphite, Pyromorphite lode, Zeehan Queen mine (“Sylvester-Queen”), Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Labelled as hinsdalite but likely plumbogummite, and as “Sylvester Mine”. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Jack Leach for $4.00. Ex Jack Nelson Collection.
7376 JL1947 Wulfenite, Pyromorphite, Avondale Mine, Mount Lyndhurst station, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Collected by Joan Lamond in 1993 on a Mineralogical Society field trip.
0248 Pyromorphite, Block 14 Open Cut, South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Green prismatic crystals. Width of specimen 11mm.
30110 Pyromorphite, Cerussite, Calcite, Avondale Mine, Mount Lyndhurst station, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Green hexagonal prisms of pyromorphite with off-white cerussite (orange fluorescence) and white calcite (white fluorescence). Specimen measures 60x50x32mm.
5678 Crocoite, Pyromorphite, Platt Prospect, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Collected underground in 2004. Specimen width 11mm. Stack of 98 images (Helicon Focus).
9039 JP2278 Pyromorphite, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Collected on the Pinnacles Dumps. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 54 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
28001 VH230 Stolzite, Pyromorphite, Sphalerite, Anglesite, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Greenish-brown short to long prismatic stolzite crystals with brown pyromorphite. Width 9mm. Stack of 100 images. Ex Val Hannah Collection. Pyromorphite is fluorescent pale orange, but also fluorescing are patches of sphalerite in the matrix (bright orange) and small anglesite crystals (bright yellow).
9021 JP2347 Coronadite, Pyromorphite, Kaolinite?, Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine (BHS Mine; South Mine), Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
Acicular needles of coronadite with a few hexagonal green pyromorphite crystals and white fibrous kaolinite(?). Width 9mm. Stack of 30, 42 and 62 photos. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9135 JP2645 Molybdofornacite, Wulfenite, Pyromorphite, Whim Creek Copper Mine (Whim Creek Copper prospect; Whim Well Mine), Whim Creek, Roebourne Shire, Western Australia
Sharp green crystals of molybdofornacite on tabular yellow wulfenite with cream zoned hexagonal pyromorphite. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 37 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9072 JP2642 Crocoite, Pyromorphite, Platt Prospect, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Green pyromorphite crystals with sharp orange-red crocoite crystals. Width 3.25mm, stack of 102 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
30093 Pyromorphite, Malachite, Emerald Pocket, Brown’s Prospect, Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory
Collected August 2010 by Dave Rosewall and Paul Melville. Video best viewed full screen.
30052 Pyromorphite, Limestone Creek, Benambra, Victoria, Australia
Ex Neil Kinnane Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
ncat VHD10, Pyromorphite, Society Girl Mine, Moyie, British Columbia, Canada
Ex Keith Williams, Williams Minerals.
20023 Plumbogummite after Pyromorphite, Pyromorphite lode, Zeehan Queen mine (“Sylvester-Queen”), Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania
Ex Ruth Coulsell Collection #1219, labelled as Sylvester Mine. As per Mindat, relabelled from hinsdalite to plumbogummite.
10025 Pyromorphite, Kaolinite, Orlando Mine (Orlando West), Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory
White porcelaneous kaolinite on green prismatic pyromorphite. Closeup photo: Width of view 6mm. Stack of 46 images. From Greg Dainty: Specimen collected by Norman Robinson in the early 1980s, and as far as I know are the only pyromorphite ever found at this locality. The contrasting white and grey minerals...
10026 Chrysocolla, Malachite, Pyromorphite, Wulfenite, Cerussite, Quartz, Mt Fitch, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory
From Greg Dainty: This piece was collected, and labeled, by Norman Robinson, from an old exploration trench. Its hard to figure out exactly whats going on here, there is what appears to be chrysocolla replacing malachite, some malachite, some non replacement chrysocolla, as for the yellowish white mineral on the...
7151 Wulfenite, Pyromorphite, Sortuz, Balkhash Region, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Harry Critchley
4639 Pyromorphite, Cerussite, Anglesite, Hopeful Vein, Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, Scotland
Green and yellow/orange pyromorphite.
4641 Creaseyite, Chrysocolla, Pyromorphite, Whytes Cleuch, Wanlockhead, Scotland
Pale green creaseyite crystals.
3890 Pyromorphite, La Maladrerie, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France
Cederick Gineste 2/2005