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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Haus Baden Mine, Sehringen, Badenweiler, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12 × 7.5 × 5 cm
Description

Already quite well written up - this was a "new find" available at the Munich show.

This specimen has a orange coloured candle drip of mimetite across the face back by an orange druze of tiny quartz crystals.

Beautiful display 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