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Manganoan Adamite

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Manganoan Adamite

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Description
Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5.5 × 4.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

A good size specimen featuring wide cavity of limonite lined by bicoloured crystals of adamite with white or transparent bases that change to purple colour at the crystal ends. Representative material from Ojuela that have become already a rarity in the mineral shows.

Purchased in Tucson in 1977 by Luc Genot.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Manganoan Adamite

Variety Of: 

Adamite

Formula: 
Zn2(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.30
Hardness: 
3.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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