Pyromorphite (2 generations) (1981 discovery)

Item Description

The famous Bunker Hill Mine is a lead-zinc-silver deposit that produced some of the finest Pyromorphite specimens from any locality in the Western Hemisphere. The mine operated for a century (closing forever in 1988), and fine quality specimens such as this one are now quite difficult to obtain on the market, especially nearly 40 years after it came out of the ground. This piece came from a discovery in 1981 and features beautiful, lustrous, sharp, well-formed, chartreuse colored, hexagonal prisms of Pyromorphite which are overgrowing a previous generation of orange colored (arsenic-bearing) Pyromorphite underneath sitting on matrix. Great condition all over, with no major damage outside that I can see. Classic material from Idaho, you don't see it around anymore, and the best pieces from Bunker Hill are among the best Pyromorphites in the world. Valued at $750 in the inventory.