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Mackayite

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Mackayite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
San Miguel Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 6.5 × 3.5 cm
Description

Beautiful crystals of bright sparkling green mackayite, easily visible to the eye but better seen with a loupe with minor yellow, tabular sonoraite microcrystals on both sides of the specimen.

Very good and rich.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mackayite

Formula: 
Fe3+(Te4+2O5)(OH)
Strunz: 
4.JL.10
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Goldfield District, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, USA