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Tellurite

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Tellurite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Kawazu Mine, Rendaiji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 0.7 × 0.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a tiny vug in quartz containing a tiny crystal of tellurite. This is a very rare locality for the mineral and specimens are very hard to come by. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tellurite

Formula: 
TeO2
Strunz: 
4.DE.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Slender prysmatic crystals
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Faţa Băii (Facebánya; Facebay; Fatiabaja), Zlatna (Zalatna; Zalathna), Alba Co., Romania

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