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Mimetite On Limonite

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Mimetite On Limonite

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Description
Locality: 
Potosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13 × 4.7 × 3 cm
Description

Very aesthetic specimen, full of (mostly) glossy orange-brown mimetite crystals on gossan ('limonite') matrix.

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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