Canada is not widely known for pyromorphite—let alone wulfenite!—yet this thumbnail specimen presents a remarkable exception. It features a cluster of well-formed, pea-green pyromorphite crystals accompanied by micro yellow tabular blades of wulfenite—an exceptionally rare association from the historic Society Girl Mine in British Columbia.
Collected from the waste dumps of this long-closed and heavily worked lead-zinc deposit years ago, the specimen represents one of the few known occurrences of wulfenite from a Canadian locality. Such combinations are rarely encountered and would make a valuable addition to any collection focused on British Columbian or Canadian mineralogy.
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