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Lotharmeyerite & Manganoan Adamite

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Lotharmeyerite & Manganoan Adamite

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Description
Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 2.9 × 1.8 cm
Description

In the early 1980's attractive specimens of purple mangoan adamites were coeing onto the market from the Ojuela Mine, associated with these attractive adamite crystals were a hithertoo unknown dark resinous red mineral species that was identified in 1983 as lotharmeyerite. Ojuela was the type locality and this is a good example of both the species and the association with manganoan adamite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lotharmeyerite

Formula: 
Ca(Zn,Mn3+)2(AsO4)2·2(H2O,OH)
Strunz: 
8.CG.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico

Manganoan Adamite

Variety Of: 

Adamite

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