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Tlalocite Tlapallite & Hessite

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Tlalocite Tlapallite & Hessite

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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 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm
Description

Sky blue aggregates of the extremely rare tellurium mineral tlalocite from the only known locality worldwide, associated to green tlapallite, black metallic hessite crystals and dark blue azurite.

It includes an old label from Mineralogical Research Company.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tlalocite

Formula: 
Cu10Zn6(Te6+O4)2(Te4+O3)(OH)25Cl·27H2O
Strunz: 
7.DE.20
Hardness: 
1.0 - 0.0
Colour: 
Blue
Type Locality: 
Bambollita Mine (Oriental Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico

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

Hessite

Formula: 
Ag2Te
Strunz: 
2.BA.60
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Koz'modem'yanskii shaft, Second Zavodinskii Mine (Second Sawodinsk Mine), Zyryanovsk Rayon, Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

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