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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
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<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1979.043.328.01</article-id>
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<article-title>Girdite, Oboyerite, Fairbankite, and Winstanleyite, Four New Tellurium Minerals from Tombstone, Arizona</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Williams</surname>
<given-names>S. A.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Phelps Dodge Corporation, Douglas, Arizona</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>12</month>
<year>1979</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>43</volume>
<issue>328</issue>
<fpage>453</fpage>
<lpage>457</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>5</day>
<month>5</month>
<year>1979</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1979, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1979</copyright-year>
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<title>Summary</title>
<p>Girdite, H<sub>2</sub>Pb<sub>3</sub>(TeO<sub>3</sub>)TeO<sub>6</sub> is white, H = 2, D = 5.5. Crystals are complexly twinned and appear monoclinic domatic. The X-ray cell is <italic>a</italic> = 6.241&#x00C5;, <italic>b</italic> = 5.686, <italic>c</italic> = 8.719, &#x03B2; = 91&#x00B0;41&#x2032;; Z = 1.</p>
<p>Oboyerite is H<sub>6</sub>Pb<sub>6</sub>(TeO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>3</sub>(TeO<sub>6</sub>)<sub>2</sub> &#x00B7; 2H<sub>2</sub>O. H = 1.5, D = 6.4. Crystals appear to be triclinic but are too small for <italic>X-ray work</italic>.</p>
<p>Fairbankite PbTeO<sub>3</sub> is triclinic <italic>a</italic> = 7.81&#x00C5;, <italic>b</italic> = 7.11, <italic>c</italic> = 6.96, &#x03B1; = 117&#x00B0;12&#x2032;, &#x03B2; = 93&#x00B0;47&#x2032;, &#x03B3; = 93&#x00B0;24&#x2032;, Z = 4. Indices are &#x03B1; = 2.29, &#x03B2; = 2.31, &#x03B3; = 2.33.</p>
<p>Winstanleyite, TiTe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>8</sub>, is cubic <italic>Ia3, a</italic> = 10.963&#x00C5;. Crystals are cubes, sometimes modified by the octahedron; colour Chinese yellow, H = 4, <italic>n</italic><sub>D</sub> = 2.34.</p>
<p>All of the above species were found in small amounts on the waste dumps of the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Arizona, associated with a wealth of other tellurites and tellurates.</p></abstract>
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