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Cuprian Adamite & Adamite

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Cuprian Adamite & Adamite

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Description
Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.7 × 9.6 × 7.9 cm
Weight: 
328.00gr
Description

Aesthetic specimen from Mapimi mine with a myriad of prismatic green-grey cuprian adamite crystals in fan shaped aggregates of excellent brightness in association with adamite in yellow crystals free or reunited in fan shaped aggregates. Crystals are present in all sides of the piece

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprian Adamite

Variety Of: 

Adamite

Formula: 
Zn2(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.30
Hardness: 
3.5
Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)2AsO4OH
Hardness: 
0.0

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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