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Poughite & Paratellurite

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Poughite & Paratellurite

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4.3 × 2.5 cm
Description

A quartz matrix has several conglomerations of yellow crystals of poughite together with small cremewhite crystals of paratellurite (picture 4).

With minor native tellurium and small tellurite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Poughite

Formula: 
Fe3+2(TeO3)2(SO4)(H2O)2·H2O
Strunz: 
4.JN.10
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico

Paratellurite

Formula: 
TeO2
Strunz: 
4.DE.25
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
1.0
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico