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Mimetite

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Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.1 × 5 × 4.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on an exceeding colourful piece from the classic Ojuela Mine. It features intense eggyolk yellow acicular crystals of Mimetite, covering a vug of typical Limonite-bearing matrix. The crystals are highly lustrous, sharp edged and very well defined. A very good specimen, undamaged and in splendid fresh shape.
 

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
Wendel Minerals

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