Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Mimetite

Views:
Watches:
ESM948969

Mimetite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

Yellowish hexagonal mimetite crystals on matrix (a note on the label says "old find about 1740")

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