Mimetite (Charles Hansen Coll.)

Item Description

Gemmy and lustrous, yellow-green mimetite prisms to 5 mm richly cover 2 and 1/2 sides of the mounded sulfide matrix on this showy and excellent specimen from the famous and now-closed Tsumeb Mine. Very attractively, many of the mimetite crystals have a preferential overgrowth of rust-red iron oxides. The scattered bruising is very minimally detracting and actually reveals, that the red color is a coating. Highly uncommon material from the Charles Hansen Collection.