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Mimetite & Wulfenite

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Mimetite & Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5.6 × 3.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

This excellent specimen features numerous intensive olive-green coloured, spheroidal aggregates of mimetite, accompanied by tabular, egg-yolk yellow wulfenite up to 1 cm. Both minerals are undamaged as well and accompanied by colourless calcite. The wulfenite is sharp edged and high lustrous. A very good specimen in splendid condition.

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

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
Wendel Minerals

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