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Girdite & Fairbankite

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Girdite & Fairbankite

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Description
Locality: 
Grand Central Mine, Tombstone Hills, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 0.5 × 0.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with an unusual, mushroom shaped nodule of rare girdite that is lined on one side with colorless fairbankite crystals. There is also some minor chlorargyrite. A good sample of both rare tellurium species!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Girdite

Formula: 
H2Pb3(Te4+O3)(Te6+O6)
Strunz: 
4.JL.30
Hardness: 
2.0 - 0.0
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Joe Mine (Joe shaft), Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Fairbankite

Formula: 
Pb(TeO3)
Strunz: 
4.JK.50
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

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