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Plumbotsumite & Mimetite

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Plumbotsumite & Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx, Soda Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.2 × 0.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a seam that hosts very nice crystals of plumbotsumite that have a light coating of mimetite needles. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Plumbotsumite

Formula: 
Pb13(CO3)6(Si10O27)·3H2O
Strunz: 
9.HH.20
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region (Oshikoto), Namibia

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

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