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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Vesuvius Crater 1944, Ercolano, Napoli, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.1 × 2.1 cm
Description

specimen with many yellow very good needles of mimetite from a fumarole of the crater.

c. 1994

Mineral Data
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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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