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Rozhdestvenskayaite-(Zn) & Hessite

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Rozhdestvenskayaite-(Zn) & Hessite

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.7 × 0.5 × 0.4 cm
Description

Bright metallic hessite associated with tlapallite and black metallic rozdestvenskayaite. From SEM-EDS confirmed material  no 03-18-m1.

Analysis attached. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rozhdestvenskayaite-(Zn)

Formula: 
Ag6Ag4Zn2Sb4S12S
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico

Hessite

Formula: 
Ag2Te
Strunz: 
2.BA.60
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Koz'modem'yanskii shaft, 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: Rozhdestvenskayaite-(Zn) & Hessite
Analysis Report - only: Rozhdestvenskayaite-(Zn) & Hessite