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 showy miniature features diverging clusters of sharply terminated, purple adamite crystals with colorless basal sections. The gemmy, highy lustrous crystals have textbook chisel terminations. It is from the one-time find in 1981 and is a highly representative example for this very desirable manganoan adamite species (erroneously once thought to be cobaltoan). Ex Dave Stoudt Collection.