Mimetite

  
 
     
 
     
 
  
Origin: Pingtouling mine, Liannan County, Guangdong Province, China
Sample size: 8.5 x 5.2 x 3.3 cm (top), 8.2 x 5.3 x 4.5 cm (2nd row), 12.5 x 10 x 4 cm (3rd row), 9.8 x 6.0 x 4.4 cm (bottom)
 
  
 
  
 
     
Mimetite on wulfenite
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
Sample size: 4.6 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm (top), 8.5 x 6 x 4.5 cm (2nd row), 3 x 2.2 x 1.2 cm (bottom)
 
     
Variety campylite
Origin: Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England
Sample size: 3.5 x 3.3 x 2.8 cm
 
     
Origin: Eleura Mine, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 11.6 x 4.5 x 4.2 cm
 
  
 
        
Origin: San Pedro Corallitos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 5.3 x 4.0 x 1.6 cm (top), 4.5 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm (bottom)
 
Origin: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 3.4 x 2.9 x 2.5 cm
 
        
Mimetite with cerussite (sixling twins)
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 4.9 x 3.2 x 1.8 cm
 
           
Mimetite pseudomorph after vanadinite with dark olive green mottramite
Origin: Touissit, Oujda, Morocco
Ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 4.4 x 3 x 2.9 cm
 
     
The crystal has a hoppered side with rib-like crystal development and a simple pinacoid on the other.
Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Guongdong Province, China
Sample size: 1.9x1.7x1.3 cm
 
     
Origin: Potosi Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 12.5 x 6.6 x 4.2 cm
 
           
Variety campylite on barite
Origin: Drygill Mine, Cumbria, England (UK)
Ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 7.5 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm
 
        
Mimetite on goethite pseudomorph after gypsum with a few white calcite rhombs
Origin: San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Isaias Casanova collection
Sample size: 5 x 2.9 x 1.5 cm
 
        
Mamillary green imetite with some blocky butterscotch yellow wulfenite crystals
Origin: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Ex. Kevin Conroy collection
Sample size: 5 x 4.5 x 1.5 cm
 
     
Origin: Potosi Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Brian Scholten collection
Sample size: 6.2 x 4.4 x 1.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Congresso - Leon Mine, San Pedro Corralitos, Mexico
Sample size: 9.5 x 6.2 x 3.9 cm
 
  
 
  
Variety campylite
Origin: Drygill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England
Sample size: 8 x 6.4 x 4.1 cm (top), 8.9 x 6.1 x 4.4 cm (bottom)
 
     
Origin: Tsumeb, Nambia
Ex. Gary Hansen collection
Sample size: 3.5 x 3.2 x 1.3 cm
 
     
Mimetite with willemite
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. Violet Dawson Collection
Sample size: 4.6 x 4.6 x 3.1 cm
 
Origin: San Pedro Corralitos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size 2.3 x 2 x 0.9 cm
 
     
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 3.6 x 2.2 x 1.8 cm
 
     
Origin: Cobar Mine, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia
Sample size: 3.1 x 3.0 x 1.7 cm
 
     
Mimetite on quartz
  
Origin: Drygill, Cumbria, England
Ex. Dodge collection
Sample size: 2.3 x 1.1 x 1.1 cm (top), 2.1 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm (bottom)
 
        
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. Dodge collection
Sample size: 2.6 x 2.4 x 1.7 cm
 
        
Origin:  Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. Dodge collection
Sample size: 2.1 x 1.6 x 1.4 cm
 
  
Origin: San Pedro Corralitos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. M. Zinn collection
Sample size: 6.5 x 3.5 x 1.3 cm
 
     
Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Guangdong Province, China
Sample size: 7.1 x 5.5 x 3.7 cm
 
        
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 7.0 x 5.8 x 3.6 cm
 
  
Origin: San Pedro Corralitos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 7.5 x 6 x 3.2 cm
 
  
Origin: San Pedro Correllitos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 6 x 3.8 x 2.5 cm
 
     
 
Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Bapu, Guangdong, China
Sample size: 5.0 x 3.5 x 3.3 cm (top), 2 x 1.6 x 1.4 cm (bottom)
 
     
Mimetite with calcite
Origin: Level 8, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 6.6 x 3.7 x 2.2 cm
 
        
One side consists of lustrous, white calcite rhombs to 1.3 cm, while the calcite on the backside is covered with tiny, lustrous and gemmy, yellow mimetite needles to 5 mm.
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 5.3 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Mapimi, Mexico
Sample size: 4.4 x 2.3 x 2.0 cm
 
                 
Mimetite on dolomite
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. Rob Smith collection
Sample size: 6.7 x 4.5 x 3.3 cm
 
        
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. M. Dodge collection
Sample size: 2.7 x 2.2 x 1.3 cm
 
Origin: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Ex. Sam Nasser collection
Sample size: 2.8 x 2 x 1.8 cm
 
     
 
  
Origin: Hat Yai, Hat Yai District, Songkhla Province, Thailand
Sample size: 10 x 7.5 x 2.7 cm (top), 10.1 x 5.1 x 2.9 cm (bottom)
 
     
Origin: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Sample size: 4.2 x 3.5 x 1.7 cm
 
     
Mimetite on quartz and tennantite
Gem Pocket 1971
Ex. S. Nasser collection
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 7.2 x 4.2 x 5 cm (top), 2.6 x 1.7 x 1.2 cm (2nd row), 2.5 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm (bottom)
 
Origin: San Pedro Correlitos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. S. Nasser collection
Sample size: 2.2 x 1.8 x 1.3 cm
 
              
Azurite with mimetite
     
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 8.2 x 5.9 x 2.5 cm (top), 3.4 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
 
        
Mimetite on calcite
Origin: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 4.2 x 3.5 x 3.1 cm
 
     
 
  
Origin: Laohuchong Mine, Pingtouling Area, Guangdong Province, China
Sample size: 2.9 x 2.1 x 1.9 cm (top), 3.2 x 1.7 x 1.2 cm (bottom)
 
        
Mimetite on calcite
Origin: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Sample size: 5.3 x 3.4 x 2.3 cm
 
        
Mimetite on dolomite
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 9.5 x 7.5 x 4.0 cm
 

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

        
 
     
Matrix consisting of crystallized wulfenite scattered richly with acicular crystals of mimetite to 2 mm in length.
  
Mimetite with cerussite and calcite
  
Mimetite with dolomite and duftite
        
Mimetite with cerussite and calcite
     
 
        
 
  
Dolomitic cast, the top partly covered by pale yellow spiky transparent to translucent mimetite crystals to 1 cm in length.
  
Pale yellowish green to colorless groupings of mimetite crystals, the largest 15 mm across, set sparsely on a black quartz matrix.
  
 
  
Ex Gene Tribbey collection
Origin: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia
Sample size: 4 x 4.5 x 3.7 cm (top), 5 x 8.2 x 4.5 cm (2nd row), 4 x 4.5 x 2 cm (3rd row), 6.5 x 4.5 x 2 cm (4th row), 4 x 5 x 3 cm (5th row), 5.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm (6th row), 5.5 x 4.5 x 2.4 cm (7th row), 7.5 x 7 x 4 cm (8th row), 6 x 5 x 5.5 cm (9th row), 7.3 x 8.3 x 5.4 cm (10th row), 6.1 x 6.1 x 3.2 cm (bottom)
 
  
Mimetite with pyromorphite
Origin: Kabwe mine (Broken Hill mine), Kabwe (Broken Hill), Central Province, Zambia
Sample size: 5.3 x 3.5 x 1.7 cm
 
  
Mimetite with wulfenite
Origin: Rowley Mine (Reliance Mine), Theba, Painted Rock District, Painted Rock Mts., Maricopa Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 2.6 x 3.6 x 2.6 cm
 
  
Origin: Potosi Mine (El Potosi Mine), Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 4.2 x 3.2 x 2.4 cm
 
  
Origin: Congresso mine, León Group, San Pedro Corralitos, Mun. de Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 9.8 x 6.3 x 2.5 cm
 
  
 
  
Mimetite with duftite
  
Mimetite with malachite and copper
  
 
  
Mimetite with calcite on dolomite
  
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Sample size: 5.8 x 5.2 x 4.1 cm (top), 5.3 x 3.8 x 3.2 cm (2nd row), 3.8 x 2.6 x 1.4 cm (3rd row), 4.5 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm (4th row), 3 x 2.3 x 3.2 cm (5th row), 10.5 x 8 x 6.5 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Santa Eulalia district, Mun. de Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 7.3 x 4 x 10.9 cm
 
        
Mimetite with minor calcite
Origin: Level B, Minerales Shaft 5, Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Dan Belsher collection
Sample size: 6.2 x 2.4 x 4 cm
 
  
Variety campylite
Origin: Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria (Cumberland), England, UK
Sample size: 7 x 4.3 x 2.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Potosí Mine, Aquiles Serdán, West Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 4.3 x 3.8 x 1.6 cm
 
  
Origin: Congreso-Leon Mine, San Pedro Corralitos, Mun. de Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 5.2 x 4.8 x 2.7 cm
 
  
Origin: Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria (Cumberland), England, UK
Sample size: 4 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm
 
  
 
        
Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Liannan (Sanjiang), Lianzhou area, Guangdong, Central South Region, China
Sample size: 5.6 x 2.4 x 1.7 cm (top), 3.2 x 2.5 x 4.4 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
Sample size: 9.5 x 8.5 x 4.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Sample size: 5.7 x 6.5 x 4.9 cm
 
  
 
 
        
 
  
 
 
        
 
  
 
        
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
     
 
  
Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Liannan (Sanjiang), Lianzhou area, Guangdong, Central South Region, China
Sample size: 9.5 x 2.8 x 5.5 cm (top), 18 x 10 x 9 mm (2nd row), 13 x 13 x 15 mm (3rd row), 13 x 13 x 16 mm (4th row), 11 x 10 x 8 mm (5th row), 11 x 8 x 24 mm (6th row), 14 x 12 x 13 mm (7th row left), 11 x 13 x 11 mm  (7th row right), 26 x 20 x 13 mm (8th row), 13 x 8 x 15 mm (9th row), 17 x 10 x 18 mm (10th row), 14 x 13 x 22 mm (11th row), 13 x 10 x 20 mm (12th row left), 20 x 15 x 22 mm (12th row middle), 8 x 8 x 10 mm (12th row right), 17 x 9 x 18 mm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Middle Level, Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria (Cumberland), England, UK
Sample size: 4 x 4 cm
 
  
Origin: San Francisco Mine (Cerro Prieto Mine), Cerro Prieto, Cucurpe, Mun. de Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico
Sample size: 2.5 x 1.5 x 5 cm
 
        
Mimetite with wulfenite
Origin: Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
Sample size: 6.2 x 7.7 x 1.7 cm
 
  
Origin: Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England
Sample size: 15 x 13 x 13 mm
 
  
Origin: Mt Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Northern Territory, Australia
Sample size: 4.1 x 1.7 x 3.2 cm
 
        
Mimetite with wulfenite
Origin: Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
Sample size: 8.5 x 5.6 x 4.7 cm
 
        
Ex. W. Maucher collection
        
Mimetite on cerussite
  
Origin: Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Sample size: 6.8 x 5.5 x 4.3 cm (top), 4.9 x 2.3 x 3.5 cm (2nd row), 4.2 x 3.6 cm (bottom)
 
Origin: Ojo Caliente, Zacatecas, Mexico
Ex. Willard Perkin collection
Sample size: 33 x 19 x 4 mm
 
        
Origin: Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 3.9 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm
 
        
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 8 x 8 x 26 mm
 
Origin: San Pedro Corralitos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 18 x 10 x 22 mm
 
  
Matrix of olive-green botryoidal mimetite with elongated pyramidal wulfenite, Ex. Willard Perkin collection
  
Limonite matrix with green balls of mimetite, thin platy crystals of wulfenite and crystallized calcite
Origin:  Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Sample size: 25 x 25 x 15 mm (top), 14 x 10.5 x 4 cm (bottom)
 
  
Greenish balls of mimetite with transparent thin wulfenite crystals
Origin: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Ex. Willard Perkin collection
Sample size: 23 x 7 x 21 mm
 
        
Variety campylite on manganese oxide coated massif quartz matrix
        
Origin: Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria (Cumberland), England, UK
Sample size: 5.5 x 4.6 x 3.3 cm (top), 17 x 9 x 7 mm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 6.5 x 4.5 x 2.2 cm
 
        
Origin: Minerals Shaft 5, Lopez Portillo Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 5.7 x 3.5 x 5 cm
 
  
Origin: Durango, Mexico
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 6.5 x 3.5 x 9.4 cm
 
  
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. John Barlow collection
Sample size: 35 x 19 mm
 
  
 
  
Origin: Minerales Shaft 5, Lopez Portillo Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 4.5 x 4.5 x 3 cm (top), 7.3 x 4.9 x 3 cm (bottom)
 
  
Mimetite with calcite
Origin: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 6.7 x 5 x 4.7 cm
 
  
Origin: Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 6.2 x 4.6 x 3.3 cm
 
  
Origin: San Pedro Corralitos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 5.7 x 2.7 x 2 cm
 
  
Mimetite with minor calcite
Origin: Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 10.7 x 5.1 x 5.6 cm
 
        
Mimetite pseudomorph after wulfenite
Origin: San Francisco Mine, Sonora, Mexico
Sample size: 4 x 6.8 x 3.1 cm
 
        
Mimetite with wulfenite on barite matrix
Origin: Rowley Mine (Rawley Mine; Reliance Mine; Reliance Copper Mine; Rainbow Mine; Theba Mine; San Carlos patented claim #4524), Theba, Painted Rock District, Painted Rock Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 2.7 cm
 
  
Origin: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Sample size: 3.8 x 2.3 x 3.1 cm
 
        
Origin: Congresso mine, León Group, San Pedro Corralitos, Mun. de Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 2.7 x 2.2 x 3.8 cm
 
  
Mimetite on calcite
  
Origin: Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 8.5 x 6.4 x 8.3 cm (top), 8.5 x 5.5 x 4.8 cm (bottom)
 
Origin: Hat Yai District, Songkhla Province, Thailand
Sample size: 23 x 10 x 12 mm
 
  
Origin: Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 4.3 x 2.2 x 3.3 cm
 
  
Mimetite with wulfenite
Origin: Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
Ex. Gene Tribbey collection
Sample size: 5.3 x 3.6 x 3.7 cm
 
  
Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Liannan (Sanjiang), Shaoguan Prefecture, Guangdong, Central South Region, China
Sample size: 10 x 13 x 13 mm
 
     
Origin: Mt Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Northern Territory, Australia
Sample size: 3 x 1 x 2.3 cm
 

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Dan Weinrich

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Mimetite with wulfenite
Origin: San Francisco Mine, Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico
Sample size: 6.8 x 4.5 x 3 cm (top), 6.6 x 5.3 x 3.4 cm (2nd row), 3.5 x 3.0 x 1.2 cm (bottom)
 
     
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 5.5 x 4.5 x 2 cm
 
     
Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Guangdong, China
Sample size: 2.3 x 1.5 x 1.3 cm
 
     
Origin: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Sample size: 10.5 x 7.5 x 6 cm
 
     
Origin: San Fransisco Mine, Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico
Sample size: 7.7 x 4.5 x 3 cm
 
     
Mimetite on duftite
     
Mimetite pseudomorph after cerussite. The center of this piece is comprised of cerussite that has obviously been etched and partially dissolved. The surface of the specimen has altered to mimetite as aggregates of micro acicular crystal groups. Ex - Bill Birnie Collection
     
 
  
 
     
Mimetite on dolomite cast (pseudomorph)
  
Mimetite on smithsonite
     
 
     
Ex - Bill Birnie Collection
     
This specimen has a layer of golden coloured dolomite and scattered crystals of barrel shaped willemite. On these are abundant sprays of mimetite.
  
Mimetite with minor duftite
     
Mimetite on lightly iron stained calcite
  
This specimen of quartz is host to a partial crystal of anglesite and numerous prismatic crystals of mimetite.
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 7 x 4.5 x 4 cm (top), 5.5 x 4.1 x 3 cm (2nd row), 10.4 x 8.5 x 8 cm (3rd row), 6.5 x 5 x 2.5 cm (4th row), 4.7 x 4 x 1.8 cm (5th row), 6.5 x 5.5 x 2.8 cm (6th row), 4 x 3 x 2.6 cm (7th row), 4.8 x 3.4 x 2.7 cm (8th row), 9.3 x 5.7 x 4.3 cm (9th row), 7.2 x 5 x 2.7 cm (10th row), 8.5 x 7.5 x 3.6 cm (11th row), 5 x 3 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 2.5 x 1 x 0.8 cm
 
  
Origin: Dry Gill Mine, Cumberland, England
Ex. Rick Green collection
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 3.5 cm
 
     
Mimetite on calcite
Origin: Level 4, Minerales Shaft 5, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Rick Green collection
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 3.2 cm
 
     
Mimetite with green mottramite
Origin: Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Ex. Ed Rosenzweig
Sample size: 5.6 x 5.4 x 2.6 cm
 
           
Origin: Hat Yai District, Songkhla Province, Thailand
Ex. Kevin Conroy collection
Sample size: 7.5 x 6.5 x 4 cm
 
           
Yellow mimetite on cerussite matrix
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. Keith Hayes collection
Sample size: 5.6 x 3.4 x 3.2 cm
 
           
Origin: Driggeth Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England (UK)
Ex. Hacker (UK) collection, ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 4.9 x 3.6 x 2.6 cm
 
     
Origin: San Pedro Corralitos,  Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Joe Polityka collection
Sample size: 4 x 3.5 x 2.3 cm
 
     
Origin: Potosi Mine, Santa Eulalia, Mexico
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 4 cm
 
     
Mimetite with duftite
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 6.7 x 3.5 x 3.3 cm
 
        
Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Liannan Co., Guangdong Province, China
Sample size: 8.5 x 4.5 x 3.2 cm
 
     
Origin: Hat Yai, Thailand
Ex. Mike Keim collection
Sample size: 8 x 3.5 x 3 cm

        

Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Lianzhou area, Guangdong, China
Ex. Kevin Conroy collection
Sample size: 12.5 x 7 x 3 cm
 
        
Mimetite with goethite
Origin: Mt. Bonney, Grove Hill, Northern Territory, Australia
Ex. Keith Hayes collection
Sample size: 11.1 x 8.5 x 4.2 cm
 
     
Transparent orange 7 mm wulfenite with green botryoidal mimetite
Origin: Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Ex. Mike Keim collection
Sample size: 1.5 x 1 x 1 cm
 
  
Origin: Santa Eulalia, Mun. de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Ed Rosenzweig collection
Sample size: 4.0 x 3.7 x 2.5 cm
 
           
Origin: Ironwood Mine, Silver Bell, Arizona, U.S.A.
Ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 6.5 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm
 
        
Mimetite on dolomite
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. Isaias Casanova collection
Sample size: 4.2 x 3.4 x 1 cm
 
              
Origin: Guanjshi prov., China
Ex. Giorgio Spiga collection
Sample size: 11 x 8 x 6 cm
 
           
Mimetite pseudomorph after vanadinite with mottramite
Origin: Touissit Mine, Oujida, Morocco
Ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 6.7 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm
 
     
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex Keith Hayes collection
Sample size: 1.5 x 0.7 x 0.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Lianzhou area, Guangdong, Central South Region, China
Ex. Giovanni Signorelli collection
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 1 cm
 
           
Origin: Driggeth Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England (UK)
Ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 5.4 x 4 x 3 cm
 
        
Origin:  Santa Eulalia, Mexico
Ex. Dave Douglass collection
Sample size: 16 x 13 x 6 cm
 
           
A mass of tennantite matrix has one face presenting well terminated tetrahedral crystals to 3.5 cm. Coating the tennantite is a fine druse of sparkling smithsonite and sprays of fine gemmy yellow mimetite to 5 mm in length.
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 19.4 x 11 x 7 cm
 
              
A reddish dolomitic matrix is lined with drusy crystals of the same and also reasonable amounts of dendritic copper and mimetite. There are also one two cuprite crystals present.
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 6.4 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm
 
     
Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Liannan Co., Guangdong Prov., China
Sample size: 8.5 x 6 x 3.5 cm
 
     
Slender mimetite crystals to about 4 mm along with poorly crystallized cerussite
Origin: Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Ex. Ed Rosenzweig collection
Sample size: 9.6 x 6.8 x 5.7 cm
 
  
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. Rick Green collection
Sample size: 2.1 x 0.5 x 0.4 cm
 
     
Origin: Hat Yai, Thailand
Ex. Mike Keim collection
Sample size: 4.3 x 2 x 2 cm
 
        
Mimetite with minor malachite
Origin: Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Ex. Ed Rosenzweig collection
Sample size: 4.5 x 3.2 x 1.9 cm
 
     
Origin: Minerales Shaft 5, Lopez Portillo Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Rick Green collection
Sample size: 6.4 x 5 x 3 cm
 
        
Origin: Driggeth Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England (UK)
Ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 8 x 7.7 x 4.4 cm
 
              
Dolomitic matrix covered on all sides with a copper coat and thousands of discrete malachite balls typically 1-2 mm across and mimetite sprays 5-7 mm
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Ex. Mark Wrigley collection
Sample size: 31 x 19 x 11.5 cm
 
        
 
  
Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Guongdong Province, China
Sample size: 5.2 x 4 x 1.9 cm (top), 4.7 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
 
        
This specimen has prismatic crystals of mimetite coated with a second phase of microscopic crystals of mimetite.
           
Mimetite on smithsonite
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 5.6 x 3.2 x 2 cm (top), 6.6 x 5.7 x 2.7 cm (bottom)
 
        
Origin: Pingtouling Mine, Liannan Co., Guongdong Province, China
Sample size: 6.8 x 5.3 x 3.5 cm
 
           
Mimetite with minor barite
Origin: Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells,, Cumberland, England, UK
Ex. Giovanni Signorelli collection
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 3 cm
 
  
Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia
Ex. Mike Keim collection
Sample size: 2 x 1.5 x 1 cm
 
        
Origin: Mount Bonnie mine, Grove Hill, Northern Territory, Australia
Ex. Alessandro Genazzani collection
Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 2.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Bilbao Mine, Zacatecas, Mexico
Ex. Dave Douglass collection
Sample size: 6.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm
 
        
Origin: Mt. Bonnie, northern Territory, Australia
Ex. Keith Hayes collection
Sample size: 4 x 3.8 x 1.1 cm
 
        
Origin: Mount Bonney, Northern Territory, Australia
Ex. Isaias Casnova collection
Sample size: 1.9 x 1 x 0.7 cm