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Zincospiroffite & Altaite

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Zincospiroffite & Altaite

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Description
Locality: 
Hilltop Mine, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.7 × 0.7 cm
Description

Yellow zincospiroffite on altaite impregnated calcite matrix. From an analysed find. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zincospiroffite

Formula: 
Zn2Te4+3O8
Strunz: 
4.JK.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 0.0
Colour: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Zhongshangou Mine, Dongping Au-Te ore field, Chongli Co., Zhangjiakou Prefecture, Hebei Province, China

Altaite

Formula: 
PbTe
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Second Zavodinskii Mine (Second Sawodinsk Mine), Zyryanovsk Rayon, Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Zincospiroffite & Altaite