Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood
Title
mimetite
Principal Mineral
Size
Cabinet; 52mm
Location in the Mine
Second oxidation zone; Level 35; North East Stope
Collection
MGMH 126262
Provenance
Innes, J.; Zweibel, J.
Entry Type
Specimen TSNB419
Description
Two elongated, slightly tapering, closely sub-parallel bundles of rod-like mimetite crystallites, very pale yellow in colour, translucent, and conjoined at an apparently random angle.
This is one of several similar specimens of this unusual habit of mimetite collected by Tsumeb Corporation mineralogist John Innes from the North East Stope on 35 Level in early 1981 (Keller and Bartelke 1982).
MGMH acquired the specimen from Julius and Miriam Zweibel (Mineral Kingdom) in early 1996.
Associated Minerals
(not assigned)