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Adamite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.5 × 1.2 cm
Description

A classic manganese-bearing adamite on limonite - from the one-time find in 1981.

The terminations are perfect and intense purple colored. 

Also some tiny red-brown lotharmeyerite crystals are present.

Beautiful thumbnail specimen.

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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