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Adamite

Former collection Lehmann (CH)
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Description
Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 2.8 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Weight: 
47.00gr
Description

A lovely miniature of yellow adamite crystals elegantly filling two vugs in the gossan matrix. Adamite exhibit the typical bipyramidal habitus and it is exceptionally lustrous, with most individual terminations perfectly transparent. 

In very good conditions, provided very minimal peripheral bruises. This specimen comes from a find dated back to the 80s. 

Former collection Lehmann (CH).

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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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