Mimetite

TSNB991
Specimen
Exhibit 1. Mimetite; 25 mm.
Exhibit 1. Mimetite; 25 mm.
Image Credit: Sharon Cisneros

Specimen Title

Mimetite

Principal Mineral

Mimetite

Size

Thumbnail; 25mm

Location in the Mine

Undetermined

Collection

Cisneros, S. & E.

Entry Number

Specimen; TSNB991

Description

A bilobate aggregate of divergent club-shaped sprays of mimetite on a shard of indeterminate matrix material.  Each individual spray comprises a composite of sub-parallel prismatic crystallites, transparent and almost colourless individually but translucent and a pale straw-yellow in aggregate.

The specimen is in the collection of Sharon and Eugene Cisneros.