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Adamite

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Description
Locality: 
Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 5 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

Unusually well-crystallized, dark olive-greeen adamite on limonitic matrix.  Older specimen from Mapimi.   These darker examples are typically not flourescent.   Large, lustrous free-standing crystals, good for the species.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Adamite

Formula: 
Zn2(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Chañarcillo, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile

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