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Stützite & Tlapallite

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Stützite & Tlapallite

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Description
Locality: 
Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1 × 0.3 cm
Description

Dark grey grains of stützite, a rare silver selenide, on matrix. It is from the Bambollita Mine, the type locality of tlapallite, which is the green associated species in this specimen from the collection of Georges Vanacker (vanackerite). Acquired in 1980.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stützite

Formula: 
Ag5-xTe3, x = 0.24-0.36
Strunz: 
2.BA.65
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Sacarîmb (Sãcãrâmb; Szekerembe; Nagyág), Deva, Hunedoara Co., Romania

Tlapallite

Formula: 
H6(Ca,Pb)2(Cu,Zn)3(TeO3)4(TeO6)(SO4)
Strunz: 
4.JL.25
Hardness: 
3.0
Colour: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Bambollita Mine (Oriental Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico

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