Great South Gems & Minerals

• Adamite specimens (Mexico) •

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•Adamite specimens (Mexico)

Basic arsenate of zinc; some copper may be present.

Hardness 3-1/2.

Orthorhombic crystals, usually prismatic or horizontally elongated showing here as drusy on crust matrix.

Adamite is usually found with limonite and calcite in the so-called oxidized zone of lode hydrothermal replacement deposites. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/adamite

Fluoresces yellow-green. Two sizes available. Mexico.

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