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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Buena Tierra Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3 × 1 cm
Description

A super specimen of orange coloured mimetite on a nicely contrasting dark matrix. A nice change from the more common yellow material and also an uncommonly offered locality. One from my own Mexican collection.

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
Peter Crozier Minerals