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Mimetite

Former collection Kasper (CH)
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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.4 × 3.1 × 2.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Weight: 
60.00gr
Description

Intriguing specimen featuring a gossan stalactite fully covered with myriads of yellow mimetite crystals. Lustre for the mimetite is quite good, and some crystals are even partly transparent.

Practically crystallized all around, this is a 3D specimen. Only a few minimal peripheral bruises.

From the former collection Kasper (CH).

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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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