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Graemite & Tlapallite

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Graemite & Tlapallite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.3 × 1 cm
Description

Small light blue crystals and crusts of graemite with green globular tlapallite on matrix.

Very rare!  Named after US geologist Richard Graeme.

SEM-EDS analysed specimen

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Graemite

Formula: 
Cu[TeO3]·H2O
Strunz: 
4.JM.15
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Cole Mine (Cole shaft; Cole No. 3), Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Tlapallite

Formula: 
H6(Ca,Pb)2(Cu,Zn)3(TeO3)4(TeO6)(SO4)
Strunz: 
4.JL.25
Hardness: 
3.0
Colour: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Bambollita Mine (Oriental Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico