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What does pyromorphite mean?

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Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A yellowish-green mineral, a mixed phosphate and chloride of lead with the chemical formula Pb5(PO4)3Cl, that is sometimes mined as an ore.
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It may be associated with a wide variety of other minerals including cerussite, anglesite, raspite, pyromorphite, mimetite, and scheelite.
In March they went to the regular dumps of the Argent Lead and Silver mine for vanadinite, pyromorphite, and crocoite.
Although nothing new was found, there was still plenty of pyromorphite and vanadinite.
Tiny pyromorphite crystals associated with wulfenite have been found in road cuts near Cranston, Rhode Island.
I collected one good wulfenite and one excellent pyromorphite.
Associated minerals can include cerussite, anglesite, pyromorphite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, wulfenite, willemite, vanadinite, descloizite, caledonite, and others.

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