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Carlfriesite, H4Ca(TeO3)3, a new mineral from Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Sidney A. Williams  and
Richard V. Gaines
Sidney A. Williams
Affiliation:
Phelps Dodge Corporation, Douglas, Arizona
Richard V. Gaines
Affiliation:
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
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Summary

Carlfriesite is a new species found in relative abundance at the Bambollita (now La Oriental) mine in the Sierra La Huerta near Moctezuma, Sonora. Colour primrose yellow (R.H.S. 4B) with pale yellow streak. H = 3½, Dmeas = 6·3, Dcalc = 5·93. Fair cleavage on {010}. Monoclinic with a 12·585 Å, b 5·658, c 9·985, β 115° 35′. Space group Cc or C2/c. Strongest lines are 3·167 (10), 3·082 (9B), 5·063 (6), 2.832 (6), 3·369 (4), 4·825 (3), 2·698 (3), and 4·o89 (2). Feeble pleochlroism in pale yellow with γ > α = β α = 1·982, β = 2·095, γ 2·19 2Vα, = 79° calc. Occurs with cerussite and chlorargyrite in an oxidized assemblage derived from hessite, galena, and bornite.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 40 , Issue 310 , June 1975 , pp. 127 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1975

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