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Mimetite

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Locality: 
Red Cloud Mine, Silver District, La Paz County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 2.7 × 2.1 cm
Description

An excellent specimen of red Mimetite from the Red Cloud Mine!   This specimen features beautiful red crystals around matrix, associated with minor Calcite.   Much like the firey red Mimetites from the Rowley Mine so popular at this years Tucson show, the crystals appear orange under magnification, but quite red to the naked eye.   It is my understanding that the red Mimetite at the Red Cloud Mine were collected in the mid 1950's and earlier.  

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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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