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Its name comes from the Greek “alabastros” (earlier albatos) which designated a vase without handles, alabaster being used to make perfume vases without handles. Alabaster is an evaporite mineral. It is a massive aggregate of fine-grained variety of gypsum, its softness make it easy to
This is a quartz, more exactly a transluscent chalcedony (itself a variety of cryptocrystalline quartz) which shows concentric bands sometimes containing opale. Comes in many colors, banded, forming concentric bands, more or less circular up to oval. Their formation is so far discuted : or
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
