Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Mimetite & Calcite

Views:
Watches:
AST712611

Mimetite & Calcite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Plaka Mines, Plaka, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 8 × 4 cm
Description

Acicular mimetite microcrystals of egg yolk yellow to intense yellow color along with transparent calcite on galena matrix.Fine display and interesting point that there are two colors of mimetite on the same specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mimetite

Formula: 
Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Treue Freundschaft Mine, Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps