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Oboyerite Winstanleyite & Rodalquilarite

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Oboyerite Winstanleyite & Rodalquilarite

Kay Robertson collection
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Description
Locality: 
Grand Central Mine, Tombstone Hills, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with several vugs hosting a variety of rare species. One vug has a nice group of white needles of super rare oboyerite while another has several small yellow cubes of winstanleyite and a third with nice green tabular rodalquilarite crystals with jarosite and possible "fairbankite" and cerussite. Rich sample from the Kay Robertson collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Winstanleyite

Formula: 
TiTe4+3O8
Strunz: 
4.JK.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 0.0
Type Locality: 
Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Rodalquilarite

Formula: 
Fe2(TeO2OH)3(TeO3)Cl
Strunz: 
4.JL.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Filon 340, Rodalquilar, Níjar, Almería, Andalusia, Spain

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