Piromorfita
Piromorfita is a mineral with formula Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl, in the Fosfatos group. This specimen comes from Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guilin, Guangxi, China.
Description
A 360 thumbnail floater spray of rich apple-green, slender pyromorphite prisms
History of this specimen
The pyromorphites from Daoping were not the only ones responsible for China's entry into international mineral collecting, but they were one of its great statements of authority. At the beginning of the 2000s they showed that China not only produced volume, but also modern classics capable of competing with the great historic European and American localities.
About Piromorfita
Pyromorphite is a lead chlorophosphate that commonly forms hexagonal prisms.
About the locality
Daoping, in Gongcheng, Guangxi, is a Chinese locality known for its pyromorphite.
Technical data
- Catalogue No.
- 0664
- Composition
- Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl
- Name
- Piromorfita
- Group
- Fosfatos
- Category
- Estélites
- Mine
- Daoping Mine
- District / Municipality
- Gongcheng Co.
- Province
- Guilin
- Region
- Guangxi
- Country
- China
- Etymology
- From the Greek "pyr" ("fire") and "morphé" ("form"), a traditional allusion to its behaviour on heating.