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Rozhdestvenskayaite-(Zn) & Hessite

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Rozhdestvenskayaite-(Zn) & Hessite

reconfirmed, SEM-EDS

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2 × 1.8 cm
Description

Black metallic rozhdestvenskayaite-(Zn) associated with hessite surrounded by a bad crystalline green coating. The green masses have been SEM-EDS & SC-XRD microdiffraction analysed, but could not be determined (Cu-Ca-Te-O). 

This is a second find of rozhdestvenskayaite-(Zn) with larger grains.

Analysis in the analytical section. 

 

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