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Rajite

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Description
Locality: 
Lone Pine Mine, Lone Pine Hill, Catron County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 0.6 × 0.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a nice coating of botyroidal, rare rajite on matrix from the type locaity. A good example of this rare, two locality copper tellurate. From my personal collection and from the Fred DeVito collection before that. 

Mineral Data
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Rajite

Formula: 
Cu(Te4+2O5)
Strunz: 
4.JK.20
Hardness: 
4.0 - 0.0
Type Locality: 
Lone Pine Mine, Lone Pine Hill area, Wilcox District, Catron Co., New Mexico, USA

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