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Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Macy Mine, Percha Creek, Hillsboro, Sierra County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.2 × 4 × 3.8 cm
Description

Orange-yellow mimetite crystals - a lot of them transparent - on matrix. Almost Hat Yai quality. Specimen from this locality are very rare. Found in the early eighties. A few littlec din´gs, but nothing relevant.

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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