Pyromorphite (Queensland Museum)

Item Description

Lustrous, translucent, light yellow to tan, pyromorphite prisms to 4 mm are richly scattered on the blocky limonite matrix on this showy and excellent specimen from the less well-known Black Star Open Cut at Mt. Isa, Australia. Scattered broken crystals are noted, but this remains a highly representative example of the species and uncommon locale. Ex D. McColl and Queensland Museum Collections.