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Tlapallite

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Description
Locality: 
Empire Mine, Tombstone District, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 1 × 0.5 cm
Description

Well crystallized botryoids of tlapallite on matrix, from the 410' level of the Empire Mine.   Old material, recently studied at the University of Arizona.

Mineral Data
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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

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