Specimen full of pockets of red to dark red
phoenicochroite showing what the books call "polycrystalline" masses or
"indistinguishable" crystals. The crystals are about 0.75 mm and on this and
the other specimen in this update single crystals are seen if you look hard.
Surrounding these vugs and within the pockets of
phoenicochroite are yellow hemihedrite crystals to 1mm. Both are abundant.
Mimetite
also occurs as a powdery yellow masses along with
cerussite
micro crystals.
Crude yellow Hemihedrite crystals to 0.5mm within pockets of
phoenicochroite occuring as deep red indistinguishable crystals to 0.5 mm.
This is a very good specimen showing how both these minerals have altered from
a
galena
crystal as see upper right in photo.
Cerussite
also occurs.
Ex. Erling Collection
Orange, massive and hemihedral microcrystals. The
phoenicochroite is red and also microcrystalline.
Origin: Pack Rat claim, Maricopa Co., Arizona, United States (type locality)
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 4 cm (top), 5 x 3 x 3 cm (2nd row), 7 x 6 x 3 cm (3rd
row), 7 x 5 x 5 cm (4th row), 7 x 4.5 x 4 cm (bottom)
Bright orange micro crystals, crudely formed or so-called hemihedral forms
(thus the name), to about 0.5 mm filling vugs in and on
cerussite associated with
wulfenite and possibly
phoenicochroite. Some of these look like
iranite.
Galena
matrix.
Origin: Florence Lead-Silver mine, Tortilla Mountains, Pinal Co., Arizona,
United States
Sample size: 6 x 3.5 x 5 cm
