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Altaite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Hilltop Mine, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 0.9 × 0.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with numerous patches of shiny tin-white altaite in matrix with possible rickardite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Altaite

Formula: 
PbTe
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Second Zavodinskii Mine (Second Sawodinsk Mine), Zyryanovsk Rayon, Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

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