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Schmitterite

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.2 × 2.1 cm
Description

Excellent and richly decorated (!) specimen with abundant spherical yellow schmitterite crystal-aggregates contrasting on matrix. Associated with green emmonsite crystals.

An area of around 2x1,5 cm is completely set with schmitterite.

Schmitterite is only known from five localities worldwide. Rare.

From the collection of Luc VANDENBERGHE, longtime mindat member and famous Belgian u-mineral collector. Specimen of a very well kept collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Schmitterite

Formula: 
(UO2)(TeO3)
Strunz: 
4.JK.70
Hardness: 
1.0
Type Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico

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