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Plumbotellurite & Ottoite & Poughite

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Plumbotellurite & Ottoite & Poughite

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Description
Locality: 
Joe & Grand Central Shaft Dump, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm
Description

Globular white aggregate of plumbotellurite & ottoite with tabular yellow poughite and tabular schieffelinite. 

SEM-EDS & SXRD confirmed material. Comes with a colour printed analysis. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Plumbotellurite

Formula: 
Pb(TeO3)
Strunz: 
4.JK.55
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Zhana-Tyube Au deposit, Akmola Province (Aqmola Oblysy; Akmolinskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Ottoite

Formula: 
Pb2TeO5
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Bird Nest drift, Otto Mountain, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Poughite

Formula: 
Fe3+2(TeO3)2(SO4)(H2O)2·H2O
Strunz: 
4.JN.10
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico