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Hessite Choloalite & Keystoneite

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Hessite Choloalite & Keystoneite

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Description
Locality: 
McAlpine Mine, Peñon Blanco Peak, Tuolomne County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm
Description

Metallic masses of hessite in quartz matrix, with green grains and very minor yellow needles of keystoneite, mostly on the brown areas of matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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...

Choloalite

Formula: 
(Cu,Sb)3(Pb,Ca)3(TeO3)6Cl
Strunz: 
4.JK.45
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Bambollita Mine (Oriental Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico

Keystoneite

Formula: 
(Ni,Mg,Fe,Mn)3Te3O9·5H2O
Strunz: 
4.JM.05
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Keystone Mine, Magnolia District, Boulder Co., Colorado, USA

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