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Formula: Pb3O2(OH)Cl
Lead oxychloride (oxychorides have both oxygen and chlorine atoms attached to lead atoms in a single molecule; other
components may also be present)
Crystal System: Orthorhombic
Specific gravity: 7.84 calculated
Hardness: 3
Streak: White
Colour: Colourless
Environments
Sedimentary environments
Hydrothermal environments
Localities
At the type locality, the Asis West sector, Kombat Mine, Kombat, Grootfontein, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia,
damaraite occurs
in a late-stage vein cutting a banded manganese ore lens in
copper-lead-silver
ores formed by hydrothermal and metasomatic replacement of dolostone (HOM). The
vein is a
baryte-calcite-jacobsite-hematite
vein, in which damaraite is also associated with hausmannite,
hematophanite, native copper and a
lead molybdenum oxychloride. The assemblage occurs
in a manganese ore lens
(AM 77.671). Other associated minerals include defernite,
crednerite, asisite,
andradite, vesuvianite,
calcite and
baryte
(HOM).
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