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 showy miniature features a sharply terminated, fairly large, 1.8 cm, purple adamite crystal with pretty hues of yellow and pastel-green jauntily angled on the sculptural, sturdy gossan matrix. The smaller, glassy adamites at base, in a jackstraw pattern, are a very fine accent 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 $300-500 for the fine quality.