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Cuzticite and eztlite, two new tellurium minerals from Moctezuma, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

S. A. Williams
S. A. Williams*
Affiliation:
Phelps Dodge Corporation, Douglas, Arizona 85607, USA
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Abstract

The new minerals were found together in oxidized ores at the Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora. Both occur with various iron oxides, emmonsite, schmitterite, and kuranakhite. Cuzticite, Fe2TeO6 · 3H2O, is yellowish, H = 3, G = 3.9, occurring as crusts with a scaly structure. No single crystals were found, but X-ray powder data indicate a hexagonal cell a = 5.045, c = 14.63 Å. Strongest lines are 3.256 (10), 2.518 (7), 4.871 (4), 2.239 (3), and 1.564 (3).

Eztlite, Fe6Pb2(TeO3)3TeO6(OH)10 · nH2O, is blood red, as paper-thin sparkling crusts, H = 3, G = 4.5. A possible cell found by the Ito method is monoclinic a = 6.58, b = 9.68, c = 20.52Å, β = 90° 15′; strongest lines are 3.426 (10), 3.289 (10), 4.037 (9), 3.239 (9), and 2.445 (7B).

Both minerals and their names have been approved by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, IMA.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 46 , Issue 339 , June 1982 , pp. 257 - 259
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1982

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