Definition of mimetite in English:
mimetite
noun ˈmʌɪmɪtʌɪtˈmɪmɪtʌɪtˈmiməˌtīt
mass nounA yellow or brown mineral consisting of a chloride and arsenate of lead, typically found as a crust or needle-like crystals in lead deposits.
Example sentencesExamples
- It may be associated with a wide variety of other minerals including cerussite, anglesite, raspite, pyromorphite, mimetite, and scheelite.
- They were associated with mimetite and unidentified clay minerals.
- Although some of these specimens were also labeled as being pyromorphite and vanadinite, they were later proven to be mimetite by several analyses from China, the United States, and Germany.
- Here colorless to yellow crusts of mimetite coat open spaces and coarse fragments in brecciated dacite.
- 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.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek mimētēs 'imitator' + -ite1.