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Mimetite

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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Block 10, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.1 × 4.3 × 1.6 cm
Description

An open cavity in  garnet sandstone is lined woth gemmy doubly terminated barrels of colourless mimetite from the old Block 10 Mine, specimen dates back to the 1930's

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
Earthstones Australia

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