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Tellurite

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 7.5 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.10cm
Description

Extremely large and good developed tellurite crystals on quartz from the famous locality in Mexico.

One of the best and largest tellurites I ever had !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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