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Creaseyite Wulfenite & Mimetite

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Creaseyite Wulfenite & Mimetite

ex Americo Urbinati collection
Type Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Mammoth - St Anthony Mine, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 3.6 × 2.4 cm
Description

Hundreds of  light green tufts of creaseyite from its type locality, here with orange wulfenite and several tufts of yellow orange mimetite; could be also macquartite but not sure

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Creaseyite

Formula: 
Pb2Cu2Fe3+2(Si4.67Al0.33)O15.33(OH)3·H2O
Strunz: 
9.HH.15
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine (Mammoth-St Anthony Mine; Mammoth Mine; St. Anthony Mine), St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA

Wulfenite

Formula: 
Pb(MoO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

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