APPLICATIONS: | Mineral specimens. |
ASSOCIATED MINERALS: | Legrandite, limonite, smithsonite, austinite, paradamite, aragonite, calcite, mimetite, conichalcite and other oxidation zone minerals. |
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Cancer. |
CHEMICAL STRUCTURE: | Zn2AsO4(OH), Zinc Arsenate Hydroxide. |
CLASS: | Phosphate Class. |
CLEAVAGE: | Perfect in two directions at non-right angles to each other (domal). |
COLOR: | Typically green due to trace amounts of copper and or uranium, yellow, rarely white and occasionally purple due to trace amount of cobalt. |
CRYSTAL HABITS: | Diamond shaped, wedge-like prisms sometimes modified with minor prismatic faces and terminated by a double triangle. Mostly in druses and radiating clusters that can form wheel and wheat sheaf shapes. Rarely in a perfectly smooth botryoidal habit like smithsonite, but commonly found with well formed double triangular crystal terminations that sparkle on the top of the "sub" botryoidal surface. |
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: | Orthorhombic, 2/m 2/m 2/m. |
FIELD INDICATORS: | Crystal habit, color, luster, density, fluorescence and associations. |
FRACTURE: | Conchoidal. |
GENERAL INFORMATION: | Strongly fluorescent green in short and long UV light. |
GEOGRAPHY: | Mapimi, Mexico, Greece, California and Utah, USA. |
HARDNESS: | 3.5. |
LUSTER: | Vitreous |
METAPHYSICAL: | Used to facilitate the synthesis of intellect (3rd Chakra) with the heart (4th Chakra) in order to help produce the stability of the heart as guided by the intellect. Also, provides inner strength when dealing with emotional issues and helps one to vaclize personal sentiments. It instills courage to forge into the unknown. It stimulates prosperous conduct for business and attainment of the material aspects of this reality. It provides stimulus for one to attempt new "things" and inspires avantgarde thinking. |
PHYSICAL: | It can be used for treatment of heart, lung, and ductless glands disorders. It has also been used to treat discordant conditions related to the throat. |
TRANSPARENCY: | Transparent to translucent. |
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: | 4.4. |
STREAK: | White to pale green. |
SUBCLASS: | Arsenates. |
VIBRATES: | To the number 8. |
