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Tellurite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.5 × 2.3 cm
Description

Beautiful gemmy tellurite microcrystal in a quartz vug from the famous locality in Mexico.

With native tellurium and spiroffite

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