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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
New Cobar Mine, Cobar, Robinson County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 2.7 × 2.4 cm
Description

Small greenish yellow to honey coloured mimetite crystals have formed over a limonitic gossan matrix. Some crystals seem to have a thin brown limonite crust partially coating them

Specimens from this locality are not seen very often on the market.

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
Gondwana Minerals