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PYROMORPHITE
Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Photograph of PYROMORPHITEBunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Idaho, USA

This curving stack of lustrous crystals is from a 1981 discovery that produced some of the finest pyromorphite specimens ever found.

Size: 8 cm across

Acquired: 1982 purchase, Stuart Fund.

Disposition: On display in the Systematic Mineralogy exhibit.

Catalog Number: 22974