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Emmonsite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 6.5 × 5.5 cm
Description

Very good grass-green rounded emmonsite crystal rosette on brown 'colloidal ferro-tellurate' matrix.

Collected 1984

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Emmonsite

Formula: 
Fe3+2[TeO3]3·2H2O
Strunz: 
4.JM.10
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Tombstone, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA