Warikahnite

Warikahnite is a very rare, triclinic, zinc arsenate hydrate described in 1980 from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia and named after Walter Richard Kahn, Bayersoien, Germany, a former mine manager at Tsumeb. It is found as beautiful, amber to pale yellow, radiating clusters and masses of prismatic [100] to bladed crystals with an adamantine luster in two pockets from the second oxidation zone associated with adamite, stranskiite, koritnigite, claudetite, tsumcorite, and ludlockite. These minerals comprise a chemically complex and colorful assemblage. Warikahnite is also reported from the Plaka and Kamariza mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attikí Prefecture, Greece.

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