Mimetite (Belsky Coll.)

Item Description

Diverging sprays of lustrous, lightly frosted, light brown, mimetite prisms are festooned on four sides of the 3-dimensional mounded sulfide matrix of this showy and very rich specimen from Tsumeb. The prisms have textbook hexagonal form and are up to about 5 mm. Classic Tsumeb mimetite accented with bits of green malachite. Ex Howard Belsky Collection.