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Kinichilite Burckhardtite & Moctezumite

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Kinichilite Burckhardtite & Moctezumite

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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: 
3.4 × 2.3 × 2.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature with some wonderful, elongated, quite large needle like kinichilite crystals in a vug on the top of the sample. A vug system on the bottom has rich, small clusters of burckhardtite crystals with minor bright orange moctezumite, tellurite prisms and native tellurium. Rich and interesting sample. 

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

Burckhardtite

Formula: 
Pb2(Fe3+Te6+)[AlSi3O8]O6
Strunz: 
9.EC.70
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
pale red
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico

Moctezumite

Formula: 
Pb(UO2)(TeO3)2
Strunz: 
4.JK.65
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico

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