page_title: Campylite
hierarchical_section_title: Campylite
caption_attribution_description: English: Mimetite, Mimetite (Var.: Campylite) Locality: Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK (Locality at mindat.org) Nestled down in a vug of massive quartz are ocher colored barrels of mimetite. The crystals have bright luster and are well formed with the largest crystal measuring nearly 1 cm in length. I would hazard a guess that this is among the brightest color and lsutre of the type. 8.9 x 6.1 x 4.4 cm Deutsch: Mimetesit, Mimetesit (Var.: Kampylit) Fundort: Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, Vereinigtes Königreich (Fundort bei mindat.org)
context_page_description: Campylite is a variety of the lead arsenate mineral mimetite which received the name from the Greek 'kampylos'- bent, on account of the barrel-shaped bend of its crystals. It has also been used as an alternate name for pyromorphite.
  It occurs in the upper lead deposits through the oxidation of galena or cerussite. The main deposits are Příbram in Bohemia and Dry Gill, Caldbeck Fells, near Wigton, Cumbria, England.
context_section_description: Campylite is a variety of the lead arsenate mineral mimetite which received the name from the Greek 'kampylos'- bent, on account of the barrel-shaped bend of its crystals. It has also been used as an alternate name for pyromorphite.
  It occurs in the upper lead deposits through the oxidation of galena or cerussite. The main deposits are Příbram in Bohemia and Dry Gill, Caldbeck Fells, near Wigton, Cumbria, England.
caption: Mimetite (Var.: Campylite)
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