Origin: Moctezuma mine, Sonora, Mexico
Sample size: 1.5 x 1 x 1 cm
Yellow to light orange circle patches, probably some kind of alteration
pattern, to 0.75 mm associated with minor
emmonsite and white
paratellurite.
Opaque orange yellow, long, bladed crystals to 9 mm, flat on matrix.
Long vein of tellurite with open cavities of beautiful honey yellow, glassy,
prismatic tellurite crystals to 1 mm. The vein is 3 x 1 cm. Associated with
minor brown, prismatic crystals of
zemannite.
Origin: Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Ex. DeVito Collection
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 4 cm (top), 6 x 5 x 3 cm (2nd row), 5 x 4 x 3 cm (3rd/4th
row), 5.5 x 4 x 3 cm (bottom)
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