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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Plaka Mines, Plaka, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 3.8 × 1.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Weight: 
27.00gr
Description

Rich specimen consisting of gossan matrix with one face fully covered by bowties and botryoidal canary yellow to orange mimetite. Some spheroids stand isolated and provide a pleasant photographic subject for macrophotography.

From the famous find a few years ago, this specimen is one of the very few left in stock.

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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