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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan County, Qingyuan, Guangdong Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.6 × 3.3 × 2.2 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 together.

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