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Mimetite & Wulfenite

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Mimetite & Wulfenite

ex collection Achim Siebert
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Description
Locality: 
Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.7 × 3 × 3 cm
Description

Very interesting specimen of grayish green mimetite with platy wulfenite crystals on matrix.
Unidentified colorless, flaky crystals grow on top of some of the wulfenite crystals (maybe cerussite?).

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

Wulfenite

Formula: 
Pb(MoO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

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