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Tlapallite

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Description
Locality: 
Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 1.2 cm
Description

Green aggregates of the very rare tellurium mineral tlapallite from the type and only one of the two localities known worldwide.

It includes an old label from "The Adit" where shows "La Oriental mine" as the locality, This is another name for Bambollita Mine.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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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