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Mimetite

Former collection Kasper (CH)
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 6.8 × 4.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Weight: 
218.00gr
Description

Sizeable specimen of mimetite featuring numerous elongated veins populated by hundreds of elongated or artichoke shaped crystals. The color ranges from pale to canary yellow, locally with orange hues mostly due to some iron oxides darkening the matrix. Crystals have medium to good lustre. 
Very rich and representative for Tsumeb, it comes with its older label (reporting 28th level...) from the former collection Kasper (CH), thus dating it back to the 70s.

It comes with a very reasonable reserve price!

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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

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