In the vicinity of where so many iridescent goethites were found, the famous Filón Sur cut, also yielded some mimetites, some with very sharp orange crystals and, in one very localized find and in a somewhat separate place, these appeared as barrel-shaped mimetites that we could call the 'campylite variety' for its habit. I liked this piece, both for the quality of the Mimetite and for the association with Cerussite crystals, association that, as far as I know, were extraordinarily rare.
Filón Sur open pit (external), Minas de Tharsis, Tharsis, Alosno, Comarca El Andévalo, Huelva, Andalusia Spain (30/04/2017)
Specimen size: 5 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.97” × 1.26” × 0.94”
Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.16”
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