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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Badenweiler, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 5.7 × 3.1 cm
Description

Beautifully colored, orange botryoidal mimetite crystals with minor baryte on matrix.

Although discovered only a few years ago, it's already very hard to get at decent specimen from this find.

Even though it has a few little dings this is a very fine specimen. Perfect color.

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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