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Plumbotellurite & Altaite

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Plumbotellurite & Altaite

Pseudo Gandolfi & SEM-EDS conf. no 1043
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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1 × 0.7 cm
Description

Pale creamy to powdery inclusions of tellurite and plumbotellurite with altaite and tellurobismuthinite. 

Pseudo-Gandolfi and SEM-EDS conf no 1043. Comes with a colour printed analysis no 1043. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Plumbotellurite

Formula: 
Pb(TeO3)
Strunz: 
4.JK.55
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Zhana-Tyube Au deposit, Akmola Province (Aqmola Oblysy; Akmolinskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Altaite

Formula: 
PbTe
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Second Zavodinskii Mine (Second Sawodinsk Mine), Zyryanovsk Rayon, Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...