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Teineite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.9 × 0.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a tiny vug containing a small group of teineite crystals. The large crystals are cavity truncated but there are several perfect smaller crystals in the vug. Beautiful under high magnification. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Teineite

Formula: 
Cu[TeO3]·2H2O
Strunz: 
4.JM.20
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
Pale blue
Type Locality: 
Takinosawa vein (Takinosawa deposit), Teine mine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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