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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Blackwood Opencut, MMM Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 2.5 × 2.3 cm
Description

Bright yellow crystals of mimetite on akaolin and garnet sandstone matrix. This material was collected on the haulage way between Blackwoods and Block 14 opencuts and was initially thought to be stolzite, but later tests showed it was an unusual form of mimetite

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
Earthstones Australia

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