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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Badenweiler, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5 × 4.6 cm
Description

Not the usual botryoidal and crusty material, but excellent double-terminated and even twinned mimetite crystals on matrix. Very rich 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

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