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Utahite & Dugganite

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Utahite & Dugganite

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Description
Locality: 
Empire Mine, Tombstone District, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.4 × 1.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some small needles of very rare utahite on quartz associated with dugganite elsewhere on the sample. This material was collected by Peter Megaw in 1989 and specimens of utahite from this mine are extremely rare. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Utahite

Formula: 
Cu5Zn3(TeO4)4(OH)8·7H2O
Strunz: 
7.DE.25
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Centennial Eureka Mine (Blue Rock), Eureka, Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Juab Co., Utah, USA

Dugganite

Formula: 
Pb3Zn3(AsO4)2(TeO6)
Strunz: 
8.DL.20
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Emerald Mine, Silver Plume Mine (Emerald & Silver Plume Mine group), Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

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