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Girdite & Fairbankite

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Girdite & Fairbankite

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Description
Locality: 
Tombstone District, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.5 × 1.7 cm
Description

Colourless girdite aggregates among chlorargyrite (grey), rodalquilarite (green) and tooth-like fairbankite (analysed). 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Girdite

Formula: 
H2Pb3(Te4+O3)(Te6+O6)
Strunz: 
4.JL.30
Hardness: 
2.0 - 0.0
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Joe Mine (Joe shaft), Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Fairbankite

Formula: 
Pb(TeO3)
Strunz: 
4.JK.50
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Girdite & Fairbankite
Analysis Report - only: Girdite & Fairbankite
Analysis Report - only: Girdite & Fairbankite