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Mimetite

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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

 An open cavity lined with sparkling doubly terminated mimetite crystals that have steep pyramidal terminations. These crystals are glassy clear, totally without colour and were originally believed to be hedyphane, recent testing has found no evident of calcium, so these are 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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