About Pyromorphite
Lead chloro-phosphate of the Apatite group, known for its barrel-shaped crystals in shades of green, yellow, or brown. It's a stone of manifestation, personal power, and attracting abundance. (Lead content, handle with care).
Primary Hues
Green, Yellow, Brown, Orange, Grey, White, Colorless, often forms barrel-shaped or prismatic crystals, or botryoidal masses
Geological & Scientific Details
Pyromorphite is classified as a phosphate mineral apatite group mineral which typically crystallizes in the hexagonal system. Its chemical formula is Pb5(PO4)3Cl. Common crystal habits include prismatic to acicular crystals, globular to reniform.
Key Geological Properties:
- Mineral Category: Phosphate mineral Apatite group
- Chemical Formula: Pb5(PO4)3Cl
- IMA Symbol: Pym[1]
- Crystal System: Hexagonal
- Predominant Geological Color: Dark green to grass-green or green, yellow, yellow-orange, reddish orange, yellow-brown, greenish-yellow or yellowish-green, shades of brown, tan, grayish, white and may be colorless; colourless or faintly tinted in transmitted light.
- Crystal Habit: Prismatic to acicular crystals, globular to reniform
- Twinning: Rarely on {1122}
- Cleavage: Imperfect- [1011]
- Luster: Resinous to subadamantine
- Streak: White
- Diaphaneity: Transparent to translucent
Associated Minerals
- Mimetite
- Vanadinite
- Cerussite
- Anglesite
- Galena
- Wulfenite