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Emmonsite & Schmitterite

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Emmonsite & Schmitterite

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 7 × 4 cm
Description

An other very good emmonsite specimen with many lustrous green emmonsite crystal clusters.

With minor yellow schmitterite microcrystals.

Collected 1981

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Emmonsite

Formula: 
Fe3+2[TeO3]3·2H2O
Strunz: 
4.JM.10
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Tombstone, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Schmitterite

Formula: 
(UO2)(TeO3)
Strunz: 
4.JK.70
Hardness: 
1.0
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico