Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood
Specimen Title
mimetite
Associated Minerals
(not assigned)
Principal Mineral
Size
Cabinet; 52mm
Location in the Mine
Second oxidation zone; 35 Level; North East Stope
Provenance
Innes, J.; Zweibel, J.
Collection
MGMH; 126262
Entry Number
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.
