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Wickenburgite & Mimetite

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Description
Locality: 
Evening Star Mine, Tiger Wash, Tonopah, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 2.7 × 2 cm
Description

Beautiful combo!!!

Lots of spheroidal aggregates and isolated crystals of wickenburgite associated to orange mimetite. Mimetite shows complex parallel growths over preexisting darker masses.

Acquired: 
Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wickenburgite

Formula: 
CaPb3Al2Si10O24(OH)6
Strunz: 
9.EG.55
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Potter-Cramer Mine (Potter Cramer property), Vulture District, Vulture Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA

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