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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.8 × 5.2 × 5.1 cm
Description

Several sharp and well developed, yolk yellow crystals of Mimetite covering two sides of the matrix. The mimetite is lustrous, lucent and the almost good terminations are tapering as well. THis is a contrastful specimen with only minor imperfection. A good specimen in very good 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
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