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Kinichilite Cuzticite & Tellurite

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Kinichilite Cuzticite & Tellurite

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.3 × 2.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniture sample with a vug hosting dozens of small brownish-red kinichilite needles with rich orange clusters of cuzticite. There is also some tellurite on the side of the sample and possible burckhardtite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kinichilite

Formula: 
(Fe,Mg,Zn)2(TeO3)3(NaxH2-x)·3H2O
Strunz: 
4.JM.05
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Kawazu mine (Rendaiji mine; Rendaizi mine), Rendaiji, Shimoda City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Chubu Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Cuzticite

Formula: 
Fe3+2(TeO6)·3H2O
Strunz: 
4.FM.35
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico

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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