Manganoan Adamite (Dave Stoudt Coll.)

Item Description

Purple (manganoan) adamite is one of the three Holy Grail species from Mina Ojuela, along with legrandite and scorodite. This aesthetic and very showy specimen features isolated, glassy, clusters of purple adamite crystals beautifully scattered on the sturdy, curved vug in the gossan matrix. A few waxy, olive-green adamite botryoids are a nice contrast and compliment to this excellent piece. This piece is from the one-time find in 1981 and is highly representative for this very desirable manganoan-adamite species (erroneously once though to be cobaltoan). Ex Dave Stoudt Collection. I would value this around $800-1000 for the outstanding quality.