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Oboyerite from
Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


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Oboyerite, etc.

Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
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Oboyerite

Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
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Oboyerite, etc.

Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
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Oboyerite

Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
09459430017271925641249.jpg
Oboyerite, etc.

Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
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Oboyerite

Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Oboyerite' (not an IMA approved species)
Comments:Occurs as spherules perched on clear, botryoidal opal (hyalite), in turn coating jarosite filling voids left in altered shale by removal of galena.
Colour:Milk-white
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - First Recorded Locality
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Fairbankite
Opal-AN
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Jarosite1
Chlorargyrite1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Oboyerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:8337
Long-form Identifier:1:3:8337:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Oboyerite
0.8km (0.5 miles) ⓘToughnut Mine, Tombstone, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
References
Williams, S. A. (1979) Girdite, oboyerite, fairbankite, and winstanleyite, four new tellurium minerals from Tombstone, Arizona. Mineralogical Magazine, 43 (328) 453-457 doi:10.1180/minmag.1979.043.328.01
Anthony, John W.; Williams, Sidney A.; Bideaux, Richard A.; Grant, Raymond W. (1995) Mineralogy of Arizona (3rd ed.). University of Arizona Press.pages 218, 315
Missen, Owen P., Rumsey, Michael S., Kampf, Anthony R., Mills, Stuart J., Back, Malcolm E., Spratt, John (2019) The discreditation of oboyerite and a note on the crystal structure of plumbotellurite. Mineralogical Magazine, 83 (6) 791-797 doi:10.1180/mgm.2019.63
 
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