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Tellurite & Denningite

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Tellurite & Denningite

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 4.5 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

Beautiful orange tabular tellurite crystals with pale green crystallized denningite filling up a quartz vug.

With pale milky yellow paratellurite, brown zemannite microcrystals and pinkish spiroffite.

Good and rich old time specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tellurite

Formula: 
TeO2
Strunz: 
4.DE.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Slender prysmatic crystals
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Faţa Băii (Facebánya; Facebay; Fatiabaja), Zlatna (Zalatna; Zalathna), Alba Co., Romania

Denningite

Formula: 
(Mn2+,Ca,Zn)Te4+2O5
Strunz: 
4.JK.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico