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Coloradoite & Hessite

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Coloradoite & Hessite

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1.2 × 0.8 cm
Description

Grey metallic coloradoite with hessite and green mineral, that could not be identified by SCXRD and SEM-EDS (tlapallite?). 

Coloradoite was both EDS & SCXRD confirmed. Analysis no 1115. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Coloradoite

Formula: 
HgTe
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Hardness: 
2.5 - 0.0
Type Locality: 
Keystone Mine, Magnolia District, Boulder Co., Colorado, USA

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: Coloradoite & Hessite
Analysis Report - only: Coloradoite & Hessite
Analysis Report - only: Coloradoite & Hessite
Analysis Report - only: Coloradoite & Hessite
Analysis Report - only: Coloradoite & Hessite