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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>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1982.046.339.13</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Cuzticite and Eztlite, Two New Tellurium Minerals from Moctezuma, Mexico</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 85607, USA</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>6</month>
<year>1982</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>46</volume>
<issue>339</issue>
<fpage>257</fpage>
<lpage>259</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>2</day>
<month>7</month>
<year>1981</year>
</date></history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1982, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1982</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>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, Fe<sub>2</sub>TeO<sub>6</sub> &#x00B7; 3H<sub>2</sub>O, 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 <italic>a</italic> = 5.045, <italic>c</italic> = 14.63 &#x00C5;. Strongest lines are 3.256 (10), 2.518 (7), 4.871 (4), 2.239 (3), and 1.564 (3).</p>
<p>Eztlite, Fe<sub>6</sub>Pb<sub>2</sub>(TeO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>3</sub>TeO<sub>6</sub>(OH)<sub>10</sub> &#x00B7; <italic>n</italic>H<sub>2</sub>O, is blood red, as paper-thin sparkling crusts, H = 3, G = 4.5. A possible cell found by the Ito method is monoclinic <italic>a</italic> = 6.58, <italic>b</italic> = 9.68, <italic>c</italic> = 20.52&#x00C5;, <italic>&#x03B2;</italic> = 90&#x00B0; 15&#x2032;; strongest lines are 3.426 (10), 3.289 (10), 4.037 (9), 3.239 (9), and 2.445 (TB).</p>
<p>Both minerals and their names have been approved by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, IMA.</p></abstract>
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