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Alumino Adamite On Smithsonite

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Alumino Adamite On Smithsonite

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Description
Locality: 
Hilarion Mines, Lavrion, Hilarion Mine, Hilarion, Kamariza, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 2 × 2 cm
Description

Rounded aggregates of sky blue alumino adamite with good transparency and lustre on botryoidal smithsonite of blue colour.

Exchanged by Herman Torfs in Lavrion with local collectors in 1982 in one of his collecting trips to the area.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Alumino Adamite

Variety Of: 

Adamite

Formula: 
Zn2(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.30
Hardness: 
3.5
Formula: 
(Zn,Al)2AsO4(OH)
Hardness: 
0.0

Smithsonite

Formula: 
ZnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Streak: 
White

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