Description
Pale yolk yellow six-sided Mimetite crystals up to 3 mm long very rich on mounded gossan matrix. This fine specimen comes from the Sardinian Santa Lucia Mine. This important mine is only 4 km west from Fluminimaggiore Village. The real development of this mine is most recent as it starts in 1943 and the mining activity ended in 1980. This mine complex is famous to most collectors for its interesting and beautiful samples of Baryte, Fluorite and Linarite, has given also other great mineralogical surprises during the last 20 years. (mindat)