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Sonoraite

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1 × 0.7 cm
Description

Outstanding yellow sharp hexagonal crystals of the extremely rare tellurium mineral sonoraite from Moctezuma, associated to green emmonsite from the type locality for sonoraite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sonoraite

Formula: 
Fe3+(TeO3)(OH)·H2O
Strunz: 
4.JN.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico

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