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Fairbankite & Rodalquilarite

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Fairbankite & Rodalquilarite

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Description
Locality: 
Grand Central Mine, Tombstone Hills, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 1.8 × 1.3 cm
Description

Very rare colourless platy fairbankite with rodalquilarite. 

References: 
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd ed.: 218; Williams, S.A. (1979), Girdite, oboyerite, fairbankite, and winstanleyite, four new tellurium minerals from Tombstone, AZ, Mineralogical Magazine: 43: 453-457.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Rodalquilarite

Formula: 
Fe2(TeO2OH)3(TeO3)Cl
Strunz: 
4.JL.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Filon 340, Rodalquilar, Níjar, Almería, Andalusia, Spain