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Published: 2017-10-12 04:25:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 740; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 20
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Mineral(s): Adamite with SmithsoniteLocality: Hilarion Mine, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion, Attikí Prefecture, Greece
Here is an amazing specimen featuring brilliant blue balls of sparkling adamite, along with some milky white balls of smithsonite rather hidden amongst the adamite. These uniquely colored adamite specimens came from a limited find on November 2014. Chemical analysis showed that the color is the result of rare earth elements (REEs) present within the adamite, mainly cerium (Ce).
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I have never seen blue adamite. Many years ago, when I was a kid, adamite was my first serious specimen of a fluorescent mineral. Purchased from the American Museum of Natural History, back around 1967, I believe. How would this specimen appear under a black light?
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Well I just tested it out and surprisingly I didn't really get a reaction, compared to the yellow adamites from Mexico that normally fluoresce a bright neon greenish yellow under long wave UV. Might be a different story for short wave UV, but I don't have one.
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I've only seen blue adamite a few other times and this is the nicest-looking one! Love the color!
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Thank you! I've only seen these distributed sometime in 2015 by one seller, and I apparently got the last one he offered (which is why I jumped on this piece). Haven't seen them since.
Also, there were specimens in varying shades of blue, with many a lot less intense in color and/or obscured by matrix or smithsonite. Happy to find a really brilliant one!
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