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What does mimetite mean?

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Noun
  1. (mineralogy) An arsenate mineral which forms in lead deposits, usually by the oxidation of galena and arsenopyrite.
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Galena becomes anglesite, cerussite, pyromorphite and mimetite.
Yellow to red-orange mimetite associated with wulfenite is well known from the San Francisco mine, Cucurpe, and good specimens have come from Cerro Prieto, Sonora.
It may be associated with a wide variety of other minerals including cerussite, anglesite, raspite, pyromorphite, mimetite, and scheelite.
It has been found with mimetite, bromargyrite, aurichalcite, willemite, and murdochite.
Here colorless to yellow crusts of mimetite coat open spaces and coarse fragments in brecciated dacite.
Good mimetite associated with descloizite, vanadinite, and wulfenite has been produced in recent years from the Aurora mine, Cuchillo Parado, Chihuahua.

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