Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Tellurite

Views:
Watches:
CR67526

Tellurite

Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 3.2 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Description

Gemmy yellowbrown tellurite crystals in quartz vugs.

With minor brown zemannite crystals.

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