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It is a product of plant origin, the fossilized resin of some conifers (pine, redwood, cypress, cedar …) and some angiosperms (legumes, Umbelliferae, Liliaceae). The amber from the Dominican Republic was produced by a kind of tropical tree, now extinct, ancestor of the carob tree,
The German mineralogist Breithaupt described and identified it in 1817. Its name comes from the angle formed at its cleavage, in Greek “Amblus” meaning “obtuse” and “Gonia” which means “angle”, as opposed to scapolite with which it was often confused. It forms a continuous series
Described in 1886 by Charles Friedel who named it after the French mineralogist Gilbert Joseph Adam who found this mineral. Its color depends on the metallic ions present : cuproadamite colored by copper is green, manganoadamite colored by manganese is pink-purple such as cobaltoadamite and
