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Poughite

Type Locality
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.5 × 3.3 cm
Description

Beautiful intensive yellow, globular poughite in quartz vugs and all over the specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Poughite

Formula: 
Fe3+2(TeO3)2(SO4)(H2O)2·H2O
Strunz: 
4.JN.10
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico