Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Paratellurite

Views:
Watches:
CR89439

Paratellurite

Type Locality
Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 3.3 × 1.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.25cm
Description

A sharp cluster of tabular paratellurite crystals with brown hexagonal zemannite crystals and yellow poughite spheres on quartz matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Paratellurite

Formula: 
TeO2
Strunz: 
4.DE.25
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
1.0
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico