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Mottramite

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Gerald Demaree
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Mottramite, 14 cm, from the Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. Ex Irv Brown collection.

Product details

Species
MottramiteAbout Mottramite →
SizeCabinet
Dimensions14.0 cm
Added on02/13/2026
Locality
Mexico, Durango, Ojuela MineRegional guide →
Publications
  • Mineralogical Record Mineral Collections In California page 91

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
—Irv BrownNot disclosed

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Mottramite
Mineral guide
Learn about Mottramite
vivid green to olive botryoidal coatings and striking luster; a popular vanadate prized for color, texture, and key localities.
Mottramite
Regional guide
Mottramite from Ojuela Mine, Mexico
from the Ojuela Mine is one of the more recent surprises from a locality that collectors thought they knew almost exhaustively. Ojuela had already secured its place among the great Mexican specimen mines through adamite, legrandite, paradamite, wulfenite, rosasite, aurichalcite, hemimorphite, and a formidable suite of oxidized arsenates and phosphates. Then, in late 2011, level 35 produced rich, visually distinctive mottramite: velvety to silky botryoidal crusts and spheroidal aggregates in deep olive green, greenish brown, and nearly black-green tones, commonly on the iron-oxide-rich limonitic matrix so characteristic of the mine.