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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Old Sandbed Mine, Caldbeck, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4.5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Weight: 
64.00gr
Description

Unusual location specimen of quartz gossan matrix hosting green mimetite crystals.

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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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