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Choloalite Hessite

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Description
Locality: 
McAlpine Mine, Peñon Blanco Peak, Tuolomne County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 2.4 × 1.4 cm
Description

Green Choloalite and metallic Hessite on Quartz matrix from the McAlpine Mine in California, USA. Good example of this very rare tellurate mineral from a classic locality!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

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...

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