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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan County, Qingyuan, Guangdong Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.8 × 6 × 4 cm
Description

A superb mimetite specimen from this one-time find in China!

Excellent yellow-brown lustrous tabular hexagonal crystals of mimetite measuring to 5 mm in diameter are set aesthetically upon limonite matrix.

The crystals are in excellent shape. Upon close inspection many of the crystals exhibit good translucency and even some small crystals are transparent.

These kind of came and went on the market; good ones are now very difficult to find. This is a good one!

Ref: The Mineralogical Record 38(1), 23-30.

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