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Fairbankite & Oboyerite

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Fairbankite & Oboyerite

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Description
Locality: 
Grand Central Mine, Tombstone Hills, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 0.9 × 0.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with many vugs hosting grayish crystals of rare fairbankite and a few sprays of white oboyerite needles. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Oboyerite

Formula: 
H6(Pb,Ca)6(Te4+O3)3(Te6+O6)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
4.JN.25
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 0.0
Type Locality: 
Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

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