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Wickenburgite & Mimetite

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Wickenburgite & Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Evening Star Mine, Tiger Wash, Tonopah, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.05cm
Description

Colourless tabulare crystals of Wickenburgite up to 0.5 mm large are sitting as groups in parageneses of yellow Mimetite on matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wickenburgite

Formula: 
CaPb3Al2Si10O24(OH)6
Strunz: 
9.EG.55
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Potter-Cramer Mine (Potter Cramer property), Vulture District, Vulture Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA

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

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