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Native Tellurium With Tellurite & Quartz

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Native Tellurium With Tellurite & Quartz

Ex Christian Bley, Hagen, Germany
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Description
Locality: 
Kawazu Mine, Rendaiji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 2.8 × 1.1 cm
Weight: 
7.70gr
Description

Patches of fine grained crystalline native tellurium in a quartz/chalcedony matrix from a very uncommon Japanese locale. Associated with masses of yellow tellurite. Furthermore, the specimen features a little vug lined with quartz crystals, encrusted with yellow tellurite (or iron-oxides?).

The Kawazu mine was a gold mine on the Izu peninsula started in 1915 and closed in 1959. Very rare material.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tellurium

Formula: 
Te
Strunz: 
1.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Colour: 
Tin-white
Streak: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Mariahilf Mine, Faţa Băii (Facebánya; Facebay; Fatiabaja), Zlatna (Zalatna; Zalathna), Alba Co., Romania

Tellurite

Formula: 
TeO2
Strunz: 
4.DE.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Slender prysmatic crystals
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Faţa Băii (Facebánya; Facebay; Fatiabaja), Zlatna (Zalatna; Zalathna), Alba Co., Romania

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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Germany (trackable & insured, up to 5 kg)
7
EU countries (trackable, up to 2 kg)
13
Switzerland and UK (trackable, up to 2 kg)
18
Rest of World (trackable, up to 2 kg)
22.50

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